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Linkage—the belief that the Israeli-Palestine conflict is the root of all Middle East instability—is not only factually wrong and deleterious to peace, it is fundamentally antisemitic.

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Tech executive and author addresses annual Shluchot conference in New York

Joe Biden forgets words. Democrats' border crisis. Tucker Carlson meets Putin. DeSantis vs. fake meat. Plus, Woke Kindergarten, Shane Gillis, and Lia Thomas.

Secretary: IDF killing too many civilians * PM: Absolute victory within reach; no surrender to ‘delusional’ Hamas demands * Ex-hostage: ‘Saving the hostages would be absolute victory’

The religious Zionists who advocate 'voluntary transfer' are too confident that the world - and God - will back them

PM’s talk of ‘absolute victory’ is meaningless without him taking the political steps and providing the army with the ‘endgame’ vision to attain it * Safe in the south? * Press leaks

Hamas’s demands appear to present a near-impossible dilemma, especially for a riven government. But the IDF believes there is a path forward * Water and Iron * Divisive Netanyahu

A smart piece at The Atlantic has me thinking about our too-short attention spans and motivated reasoning.

Jewish advisers help a hit television show about the life of Jesus grapple with Judaism

The immigration reform deal they negotiated has so much of what Republicans claim to want that the only way they can criticize it is by making things up.

Yosef Blau, Senior Mashgiah Ruhani at Yeshiva University, wonders about the direction of Religious Zionism after October 7 and considers the role of Modern Orthodoxy outside of Israel.

GOP leaders, who proposed stand-alone Israel funding, said the Senate bill is “dead on arrival,” for insufficiently addressing the immigration crisis on the U.S. southern border.