26+ min ago  (451+ words) Ninety years ago, in a Europe beginning to succumb to the rise of Nazism and the complicit silence in the face of intolerance, the World Jewish Congress was born in Geneva. The organization emerged from the courage and vision of…...

3+ hour ago  (1202+ words) This week, I will fly across America to march in New York's Israel Day Parade. For some people, that decision makes no sense. It can be infuriating. Why would a Muslim march in support of Israel at a time when…...

2+ hour, 56+ min ago  (328+ words) Rafi Glick is a writer, lecturer, farmer, and business executive with decades of experience at the intersection of academia, technology, agriculture, and international trade. " He has served as a Senior Teaching Associate at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Ono Academic…...

5+ hour, 16+ min ago  (406+ words) In my panic, I temporarily forgot the reality of the opposition. The radical factions do not produce anything of value in Gaza. The primary things manufactured there are rockets, bomb belts, and intricate plans for terror attacks all over the…...

6+ hour, 33+ min ago  (47+ words) Can Mansour Abbas save Israeli democracy? The Times of Israel - Follow You will receive email alerts from this author. Manage alert preferences on your profile page You will no longer receive email alerts from this author. Manage alert preferences on…...

19+ hour, 39+ min ago  (399+ words) Monday night I saw Fiddler on the Roof. In Yiddish. Part of it was intellectual curiosity. Yiddish was the lingua franca of that world. Sholem Aleichem wrote in Yiddish. Tevye der Milkhiker " Tevye the Dairyman " was born in Yiddish. Hearing…...

20+ hour, 6+ min ago  (960+ words) Is it my trauma speaking, or is history preparing itself to repeat once again? And now, after decades of advocacy, I am reaching a point where I no longer recognize the mindset of the very people I fought for. Not…...

1+ day, 13+ min ago  (267+ words) How did Israel reach the point where attempts to fulfill direct Bible commands face arrest while practices the Hebrew text rejects receive official support and celebration? The answer lies in the plain reading of the Hebrew Bible. True geula, the…...

1+ day, 21+ min ago  (807+ words) I did not grow up thinking Zionism would one day become a word that people whispered cautiously. For much of my life, Zionism felt simple. It was connected to survival, language, prayer, peoplehood and longing. Zionism lived in stories told…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago  (334+ words) Some of us are always looking for a mentor to help take us to the next level. Some of us just shrug our shoulders at mentorship. But could there be a mentor already in our lives and we don't know…...