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Ilhan Omar shows her hand
Shana GoldbergFeb 08, 2024
Confession: I was excited when Ilhan Omar was elected to Congress. I knew I wasn’t necessarily aligned with her politically, but seeing a religious Muslim woman in...
Unwinding during war
Herb KeinonFeb 07, 2024
In the best of times, Israel is not the world’s most relaxing country. The pace is frenetic, the people are intense, the place is crowded, the volume is loud and the...
Scholar? Polymath? Renaissance Man?
Chaim GoldbergFeb 01, 2024
Scholar? Polymath? Renaissance man? One struggles to come up with a word that encapsulates Rabbi Dr. Professor Avraham Steinberg. A growing number of people today are...
It’s all about Jewish safety
Jordan FriedmanFeb 01, 2024
The domestic political lesson of Oct. 7 is that left and right are secondary considerations. It is the rooting out of threats against the safety of the Jewish community...
UNRWA has failed the Palestinians
Tehilla R. GoldbergFeb 01, 2024
UNRWA was launched over 75 years ago to deal with the plight of Middle East refugees, including Jews. They bowed out in 1952. But 75 years on, Palestinian Arabs are...
My generation
Shana GoldbergFeb 01, 2024
Having celebrated my birthday last week (along with my cosmic twin Volodymyr Zelensky and my ancestral twin Robert Burns), I am firmly in middle age. No sugarcoating it.
Is the unity starting to wane?
Hillel GoldbergJan 25, 2024
There is nothing the Jewish people cannot do if they do it from unity. Jews have certainly felt this around the world since Oct. 7. “Together we will win” is the...
Live long and prosper?
Karen GalatzJan 25, 2024
Does the thought of a super long life thrill or chill you? Once upon a time, the idea of living to be 100 was extraordinary. Now, while hardly commonplace, it’s...
Minor (lethal) Offenses
Shana GoldbergJan 25, 2024
“The teenagers had been jailed for minor offenses like throwing stones.” This sentence, penned by the AP when a hostage-prisoner exchange between Hamas and Israel...
Pierced but unwavering
Tehilla R. GoldbergJan 25, 2024
They ran out of room. The cemetery in Gush Etzion doesn’t have enough space for more graves for soldiers. They need to expand, to dig a new block. “Hutru l’pirsum....
