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News & Politics July 1, 2025

Netanyahu confirms meeting with Trump in DC next week

The invitation from Trump "followed the great victory we achieved in 'Operation Rising Lion'" against Iran, said the Israeli premier...

Inside Out June 26, 2025

Gimmel Tammuz Reflections

By Yochanan Gordon This is the thirty-first time we mark Gimmel Tammuz, the date in 1994 when it felt as if...

Words of Wisdom June 26, 2025

The Kids Of Summer

By Malkie Gordon Hirsch Magence “Hi! I know it’s a hectic week for you with getting the kids off to...

Israel News & Politics June 13, 2025

Iranian scientists were secretly developing nuclear weapon components

Inside the intelligence that triggered Israel’s strike on Iran: Israeli defense officials say, "We are at the point of no...

News & Politics Israel June 13, 2025

Chief Rabbis and Torah sages urge prayer, Torah study amid security emergency

Israel’s Chief Rabbis and senior rabbinic councils have called for synagogue closures this Shabbat and instructed the public to pray...

Torah June 11, 2025

Belief In Moshiach Today

By Yochanan Gordon The Rambam codified belief in Moshiach and anticipating his arrival as a crucial tenet of Torah and...

Words of Wisdom June 11, 2025

A Crash Course In Grandparenting

By Malkie Hirsch Magence I’ll be the first to admit it: it still feels surreal to go from being the...

From the Editor This Week's Edition May 28, 2025

The Case Against Harvard

By Larry Gordon Deborah Lipstadt, the Biden administration’s former Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism, told CNN last Friday...

This Week's Edition Heard In The Bagel Store May 28, 2025

Mountain Climbing

My father used to say this a lot and so it has remained ingrained in my mind. And it’s a...

Torah May 28, 2025

Redemptive Consciousness

By Yochanan Gordon Bracha Jaffe has just released the first of 11 songs on her debut original album, titled Root, in...

Words of Wisdom May 28, 2025

Widowhood—Shaken And Stirred

By Malkie Hirsch Magence The first time I tasted what it felt like to experience sudden loss was when my...

News & Politics May 26, 2025

Netanyahu meets with Noem, Jacky Rosen in Jerusalem

The visiting U.S. secretary of homeland security expressed "unwavering support for the prime minister and the State of Israel." JNS...

News & Politics May 26, 2025

Who’s safeguarding the legacy of the ‘Greatest Generation’ on Memorial Day?

The president is right to say that the United States must reject neo-Marxist wokeism if it is to defeat China,...

Inside Out May 21, 2025

A New Voice Has Risen

By Yochanan Gordon Eurovision is billed as the largest music competition in the world. Although it first debuted in May...

Music May 14, 2025

Then And Now

These are the songs of days and years and decades gone by. Songs by iconic composers like Rabbis Shlomo Carlebach...

Advice May 14, 2025

The School Year Twilight

By Malkie Gordon Hirsch Magence We’re at that funny point in the year when the kids seem to have collectively...

Advice Torah May 14, 2025

Torah And Tefilla: A Two-Step Dance

By Yochanan Gordon Rebbe Nachman of Breslov taught that a Jew must turn their Torah into tefillah—not simply learn, but cry,...

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