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In the ten days since the massacre in southern Israel, many normally very opinionated people have been writing about their political epiphanies following the event itself and the reactions to it. I’m…

Colleges Have Gone off the Deep End. There Is a Way Out.

Plus: Right-wing pundits pretend Joe Biden hasn’t condemned campus antisemitism.

Israel needs to make a fundamental decision about its strategic priorities.

Why the pro-Hamas rallies are only getting more extreme.

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As soon as Passover ended on Tuesday night, entire families, men, women, and children, gathered in a field in the Negev to harvest barley for the Omer offering of barley.

How social networks prey on our longing to be known by Jan Maarten

An up close an personal look into why we should be extremely careful when sharing about ourselves online, no matter how shiny an app or network might be.

The anti-Israel protesters of 2024 are trying to emulate the demonstrations that took place in many of the same universities back in the late 1960s. But are the two movements really comparable and, if so, how? And what are the ramifications for American foreign policy toward Israel?

On Thursday, the third intermediary day of Passover, Levites gathered in Jerusalem to reenact their musical role in the Temple. A group of about two dozen Levites gathered in the Old City to practice their singing while wearing garments designed for use by the Temple musicians in the Third Temple.

The U.S. government is sourcing its information from “radical extremist organizations” that work to destroy the Jewish state.

The presence of Jews among those demonstrating for Hamas and supporting the surge in antisemitism doesn’t vindicate the “pro-Palestine” cause.

The court ruled that “there was a risk of irreparable harm to the Palestinian right to be protected from genocide,” Joan Donoghue said.

“Hitler, Hitler go back home, Palestine is ours alone,” more than 100 demonstrators chanted at George Washington University on Friday.

This is Your Story by Sara Lamm

I want to take a poll. Raise your hand if you have a recipe passed along to you by an older relative (from the previous generation). Great Aunt Susie’s Meat Loaf, maybe? Put your hands down. Now, raise your hand if you have a family story about how your great-great grandmother fought during the Civil […]

Dennis Francis called the holiday a “season of rebirth and renewal, the triumph of hope and faith.”

It is unclear how that figure was tabulated; it would mean that some 28,000 children have been killed since Oct. 7—a number not even claimed by Hamas.

In preparation for an anti-Israel march that took place in Hyde Park, London, on Saturday,  Lord Mann, the government’s adviser on antisemitism, ordered park officials to cover a memorial to Jewish victims of the Holocaust that stands in the park.