Monthly Archives: March 2026
The three conditions missing for an uprising in Iran
The claim that an uprising in Iran can be “ignited” through external action sounds dramatic, but it is equally misleading. An uprising is not an event that can be manufactured from the outside, certainly...
Eight wounded as Iranian missiles strike central Israel
Two people were wounded in Tel Aviv during the sixth Iranian missile attack on central Israel on Thursday morning.
Magen David Adom said its medics treated a woman in her 40s who suffered shrapnel wounds...
Israeli soldier KIA in Lebanon
Israel Defense Forces Staff Sgt. Ori Greenberg, 21, was killed in action fighting Iranian-backed Hezbollah terrorists in Southern Lebanon, the military announced on Thursday morning.
Greenberg, from the central Israeli city of Petach Tikvah, served...
Reconstructionist Judaism founder Mordecai Kaplan a ‘restless soul’ who speaks to the moment, per...
Jenna Weissman Joselit was looking for a project that wasn’t so “heavily freighted” after her book on the American “embrace” of the Ten Commandments came out in 2017. “Out of the blue,” an editor...
Former Trump Mideast envoy urges US control of Strait of Hormuz
The United States and its allies need to take control of the Strait of Hormuz in order to win the war against Iran, while some ground troops will be necessary to gain control of...
Malta: A small island with a long Jewish history
Perched in the heart of the Mediterranean between Europe and North Africa lies the island nation of Malta, a place best known for its ancient fortresses, sun-drenched harbors and strategic location. Yet like so...
Podcast: Jews among internationalists and nationalists in Moldova (In Yiddish)
From the three stories you hear in the "Autograph" section, I'm trying to read my electronic book "My Yiddish Shoes". You can see this book on the first page of our publication, among other...
He doesn’t understand
Nobody. Absolutely no one. Absolutely nobody understands me... What? Do I speak Turkish? I speak my native language, just like all the citizens who are supposed to understand exactly what I do, what I...
I travel to Tsuruga, Japan, where my father was saved from the Nazis
It's not often you come across a museum that reflects your own history. But that's exactly what happened recently when my husband, Sandy Kessler, and I traveled to the ends of the earth—to Tsuruga,...
Mosiuoa Lekota knew apartheid
South Africa has lost many political figures over the decades, but few embodied the moral complexity and courage of Mosiuoa (“Terror”) Lekota.
For the Jewish community, his death on March 4 at the age of...