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Here's something you probably won't hear this week: I believe the Jewish people are in a stronger place today than we have been in generations. Three years after the worst day in Jewish life since the Holocaust, that may sound strange, even jarring. But let’s step back from the headlines, look at the whole picture, […]
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NAZA is the documentary everyone is talking about. At the Venice Film Festival on September 10, 2026, it earned a record-breaking 25-minute standing ovation, and won the Special Jury Prize. Its charge is devastating: that Israel's army knowingly accepted massive civilian casualties in Gaza. The film was commissioned by Britain's The Guardian and made by […]
On the morning of October 7, 2023, my nephew, a student at NYU, woke up and reached for his phone. His feed was already flooded with posts attacking Israel. He didn't yet know what had happened there. Only after scrolling through post after post did he piece together what had happened hours earlier. Hamas terrorists […]
In anticipation of Netflix’s 7-part East of Eden, I reread John Steinbeck’s classic novel, a modern epic loosely based on the biblical story of Cain and Abel. Even the title comes from Genesis: after killing his brother, Cain “dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden” (Genesis 4:16). The book carries a […]
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