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September 17, 2025, 9:41 am
Hearing hope in the shofar
The promise of the New Year — to turn the page, begin anew and lay down the burdens of the last year — feels elusive.
By William Daroff
Senior Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh arrives at a Liberation Youths summer camp organized by the Hamas movement in the Gaza Strip in 2017. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)
May 10, 2024, 1:35 pm
Sinister Hamas terms would let it keep most hostages, win the war, inflame the West Bank
It took the US more than a day to internalize that Hamas had not in fact accepted a hostages-for-truce proposal. But the text of its ‘agreement’ is far more duplicitous than that
By David Horovitz, Times of Israel
Queen Elizabeth II visits the concentration camp memorial at Bergen-Belsen in Lohheide, Germany, June 26, 2015. With her are Prince Philip and Jens-Christian Wagner, director of the memorial. (Julian Stratenschulte/Pool/Getty Images)
September 10, 2022, 9:30 pm
What Queen Elizabeth meant to a British Jew like me
The Queen was a friend of the Jewish community in the U.K.
By Jeremy Havardi
Salem’s Market and Grill is a gathering place for people of all races, religions and nationalities. Photo by Jim Busis
January 5, 2022, 12:11 pm
There is good happening in the world
Individuals make a difference. Private donors make a difference. The foundation community and government makes a difference.
By Jordan Golin
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May 20, 2021, 9:49 am
There are more American Jews — and they’re staying Jewish
The sociological approach used by Pew to identify who is Jewish is imperfect, but yields a conservative estimate of the total Jewish population.
By Leonard Saxe
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