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A Country Worthy of Their Sacrifice
As Israel transitions from Memorial Day to Independence Day, we must ask how we can build a country that honors those who gave their lives in its…
 • Avi Mayer
America Didn’t Go to War for Israel
Blaming Israel for America's war in Iran not only ignores a mountain of evidence — it also echoes eerily familiar tropes
 • Avi Mayer
What This War Has Proven
In just six weeks, the war against the Iranian regime has reshaped the region, realigned alliances, and changed how Israel — and the world — think about…
 • Avi Mayer
Temple Israel Rabbi: We Are Not a People Who Cower to Terror
Hours after the attack at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield, Michigan, I spoke to the synagogue's Rabbi Jen Lader about the day's harrowing events
 • Avi Mayer
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Reading Zachor in the Bomb Shelter
As Israel and the United States battle the Iranian regime, past and present converge in Jewish texts that take on renewed meaning
 • Avi Mayer
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Qatar's Global War on Israel
Listen now | Israel has identified Qatar as being behind a global defamation campaign targeting the Jewish state. Nadav Eyal explains why the emirate…
 • Avi Mayer and Nadav Eyal
The War Is Over
The return of the final Israeli hostage marks the end of one of the most painful chapters in Israel’s history. Now the nation can begin to heal.
 • Avi Mayer
When Fear Stopped Working in Iran
Iranian-born human rights activist Marjan Keypour Greenblatt describes how a regime built on martyrdom lost its hold on a new generation
 • Marjan Keypour Greenblatt
From Critique to Contempt: Ireland, Israel, and the Normalization of Antisemitism
Former Irish justice and defense minister Alan Shatter writes that extreme anti-Israel and anti-Jewish sentiment has gone mainstream in Ireland — with…
 • Alan Shatter
A Nation of Everyday Heroes
As we celebrate Hanukkah, historian and thinker Gil Troy calls on us to recognize Israel’s wartime heroes — and the Israelis who honor them by living…
 • Gil Troy
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The Bondi Beach Massacre – and the Failure to Stop It
An urgent Jerusalem Journal Podcast conversation with Australian Jewish communal advocate Joel Burnie about the antisemitic climate that produced the…
 • Avi Mayer
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