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Less alone than I thought
By
Neshama Carlebach
Reckoning with my father’s complex legacy, I’ve discovered how many others are struggling to reconcile love for someone with the harm they caused
Vered Guttman
Eating out is political. So is rewriting Israeli food history
New York Magazine’s story about identity in the Middle Eastern dining scene has a glaring blind spot: as one restaurant put it, ’the land mass currently called Israel’
David Makovsky
Can Jared Kushner get Hamas disarmament moving?
In a trip to the Mideast this week, the US envoy must put forward practical steps to keep the Gaza ceasefire from unraveling
From the blogs
How to keep US-Israeli relations from going off the cliff
By
Jacob J. Lew
A generational shift is threatening decades of bipartisan support for Israel. The next government must change course before the damage becomes irreversible
Yitzhak Klein
Israel can no longer afford deference to America
Jack Lew’s prescription for preserving US-Israel ties belongs to an era when Israelis could rely on America to protect their vital security interests
Matti Sarfatti Harcavi
Israelis are choking on the government’s failure to act
The danger of illegal trash-burning in Palestinian towns has been known for decades, but the current leaders offer rhetoric and photo ops instead of solutions
83 years since the Bialystok Ghetto Revolt: We are still here
By
Shane Shmuel
My grandparents defied the Nazis and survived to pass a message of courage and pride from one generation to the next
Robert S. Miller
I invest in Portland. Must I pass a test on Israel?
A campaign to investigate Zionist ‘complicity’ could turn ordinary economic participation into a test of political loyalty
Yehuda Gellman
7 questions to Haredi leaders on not drafting to the Israeli army
Ultra-Orthodox rabbis relate to the IDF and to the possibility of their own drafting in ways that seem to undermine the very Torah they say they are protecting
A rabbi and a shofar walk into a church…
By
Steven C. Wernick
After October 7, an unlikely friendship across a theological divide became a living lesson in what it means to show up for one another
Lawrence Rifkin
It’s the elections, stupid
Bibi thumbing his nose at Trump over Gaza? Segalovich seeing an Arab party as his chance to get ahead? It’s politics! Get over it! Vote!
Tomer Avital
Here’s how we drove a toxic propaganda channel off public screens
Our campaign got public institutions to replace Channel 14 broadcasts with neutral programming. It’s a tactic pro-democracy activists can use anywhere
In Israel, a missing soldier is everyone’s son
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Stephen M. Flatow
The search for an IDF soldier, Yehuda Katz, missing since the 1982 First Lebanon War, reflects a commitment that is deeply Israeli – and deeply Jewish
Alex Litzky
I’m a teacher and a parent. When is a strike one too many?
Caught between students’ need for stability and teachers’ need for safety and fair working conditions, I wonder if another labor dispute will solve the problems in our schools
Michael Knighton
Water in the wilderness: A desert preaches
It doesn’t rain in Israel in August. It just doesn’t. So when the heavens bucketed down on the dry and dusty wadis, I found myself looking for meaning
Yes, I would let AI help me write a love letter
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Ben Newman
AI does not replace my emotions, ideas or judgment or emotion. For me – and for neurodivergent writers – it’s a creative tool like any other
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