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Eden Gafner
Stop romanticizing the return to the Gaza border
For decades, we lived in the line of fire and the state praised our resilience instead of ensuring our safety. If it wants us to go back, it has to provide a future beyond survival
from the blogs
From the rubble of my home, I still choose peace
By
Khalil El-Halabi
Hatred will not rebuild my home. Revenge will not shelter my grandchildren. Violence will not bring security to this land; it will only create new graves and new ruins
Noam Yaffe
The politics of an Israeli presidential visit
Painting Herzog as war-mongering would be laughable if Australians weren’t so easily swayed by those who twist his solidarity trip into one shopping genocide
Danielle Haas
Human Rights Watch’s Frankenstein moment
The watchdog I once worked for rewarded divisive, aggressive tactics — especially when aimed at Israel. Now the forces it nurtured have turned on it
Shanie Reichman
Liberal Zionists, take a lesson from the settler movement
I deplore the mission of the hilltop youth and their supporters, but I can’t help admiring their political savvy and dedication to shaping Israel’s future
Gabriela Khazanov
Armed, loaded, and ready for a threatening antisemite
In a world that feels increasingly unsafe, more and more American Jews own guns. But do the gains outstrip the risks?
What I learned serving alongside Haredi soldiers
By
Yafit Assyehen
When an ultra-Orthodox platoon joined my reserve unit, I discovered what truly drives them to enlist — and why coercion misses the point
from the blogs
The next victim could be you! (It was me)
By
Haviva Ner-David
Robbed at knifepoint in my home — 3 doors from a minister guarded by state-funded security — I learned the hard way that the crime we ignore will eventually come for all of us
Nina B. Mogilnik
Jeffrey Epstein and my husband
A monster built his empire on the insecurities of men who already had everything – except what matters most
The Super Bowl ad against antisemitism pitches a Jewish identity without Israel
By
Brian Racer
Kraft’s empathy campaign focuses on safety and misses the Jewish state’s strength, cohesion, and refusal to rely on the approval of others
Ryan Torok
The Super Bowl ad on antisemitism hits its target
Many Jews have dismissed the $15 million publicity campaign as an ineffective waste of money. Perhaps we’re not the ones who should be judging it
Carmen Targownik
Renting your life: The hidden tax of the digital cloud
Online storage is a trap. As we upload more of our work and our memories, tech giants gain the power to lock us out, raise prices, and profit from our data
Ben Newman
The AI generation gap and the uncanny valley
I liked the music I generated, but it rubbed my kids the wrong way: Too human, not human enough, and very far from what happens when our souls sing together in a room
What Matti Caspi left behind was not just music
By
Sagit Alkobi Fishman
One of Israel’s most prolific and beloved musicians, he lived in the space where art is chosen, not dictated. That space is closing — and not by accident
The day the dishwasher was a ‘kaparah’ against bad karma
By
Andrea Simantov
Top Ops
Ahmir Lerner
When only 80% of funding arrives, the most vulnerable pay
The Welfare Ministry suddenly cut funding for services already delivered. Organizations like those serving children with disabilities have to absorb the shock
Reuven Gal
Israel’s growing collective moral injury
The sense of betrayal by the IDF, police, and other once-trusted institutions is corrosive to national resilience. Healing requires a course correction
Yoni Alon
When Jewish teens finally speak
If American Jewish parents connect to Israel with support and admiration, their kids have a lot of nuanced questions. Will Israelis answer them?
Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez
Lebanon has a new Sunni terror front
The next northern-front threat isn’t a ’Hezbollah alternative’ – it’s an Islamist partner hiding in plain sight, built for legitimacy in peacetime and attack in war
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