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Dear Israelis, we must not forget the peace between our countries By Farah Bdour As a Jordanian, I understand your need for strong borders. But barriers alone cannot provide the security that diplomacy and cooperation have helped sustain

Seth Farber The soul of the nation: What Israel’s election is really about Judaism mandates our leaders’ active participation in the community’s survival, from the strategic future to the rule of law, the draft, and a robust Oct. 7th inquiry

Anne Bayefsky Hamas celebrates a Nobel Peace Prize: Meet Navi Pillay The former UN human rights chief built a career accusing Israel of atrocities while undermining the standards she was supposed to uphold

Olive theft betrays Avraham’s moral legacy: A response to Rabbi Lior By Kenneth Brander The rabbi who ruled that Jews can steal the fruit from their Arab neighbors’ trees contradicted not only Jewish law, but also Torah values

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Paula Slier France is burning and immigrants are being blamed. I’ve seen this before I saw looters ransack Paris shops 8 years ago. Now, amid fresh riots and claims of antisemitism, the rush to judgment feels familiar

Ruby Chen What Washington expects from Israel’s next government While in the US capital to honor my son’s memory, I heard a clear message: Israel must change course, rebuild regional trust, and restore American public support

Fear is silencing the Charedi Public’s attempts at discussion By Yehuda L. Oppenheimer I’m running for Knesset and want to explain my passion for the new Haredi party, but it’s inviting threats. That’s coercion, not the Torah’s model of dispute

Raphael Poch Forget the propaganda: Small parties don’t burn votes When voters decide in advance to spurn new parties, they surrender the one tool they have to tell Israel’s leaders what they believe

Avi Schwartz The lesson of Oslo: A fragile Knesset majority can imperil our nation’s future Gideon Sa’ar’s account of the parliamentary arithmetic behind the Accords convinced me Israelis must vote with only one issue in mind: security

My son’s backpack was shot and that wasn’t even the craziest part of the story By Sarah Tuttle-Singer What are the odds that a missing schoolbag, a police operation, and an entirely unnecessary decorative giraffe would land me in that exact checkout line?

Jonah Platt Jewish nonprofit leaders should be paid like corporate CEOs High NGO salaries have sparked outrage. But why should serving the Jewish community mean accepting less?

Susannah Schild The worst deal I make every year for the oldest harvest in the land After last year’s poor olive yield, we were somehow certain this year would be plentiful. And so we hunted (and hunted) for the best trees for our oil

18 not-so-serious questions about the meaning of life in Israel By Mark P Cohen After 15 months here, I still need to learn many things, like whether the parakeets on my street are indigenous to Israel or colonizers – and does anyone like amba?

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Aron Heller Vote right, if you wish. Just don’t vote for Bibi Make no mistake, this election is not about right versus left. It’s about right versus wrong   Aaron Herman A person should own the algorithm: Watching ‘The Social Reckoning’ with my son My 8th grader joined social media to fight antisemitism. When we saw the new film about Facebook, I discovered he understands something Mark Zuckerberg has forgotten   Sharon Cohen When animals save people Stand beside a donkey (or a sheep) and you’ll breathe differently – and that’s just one way structured time with animals helps heal soldiers’ trauma (Noah)   Craig Snoyman The Nobel Peace Prize offensive Navi Pillay has been awarded the world’s most prestigious peacemaking honor not for advancing peace, but for advancing the accusation of Israeli genocide