Join host Joshua Hoffman, author of the book "The Future of Jewish," as he interviews guests about the future of Judaism, Jewish life, Jewish Peoplehood, and Israel.
The collapse of Iran's Islamic Republic, once almost unthinkable, is now a distinct possibility. These are all of the possible outcomes.
Today, a complete Jew is rooted in tradition, but capable of self-defense; fluent in Torah, but unafraid to fight.
The psychological warfare element — that the strike had come from Iranian soil — amplified the attack's kinetic effects, leaving Tehran paralyzed.
The Talmudic advice of "rise and kill first" does not glorify violence; it acknowledges evil. It does not desire war; it seeks to prevent death in a world that has rarely cared for Jewish survival.
The Israelis understand Iran's jihadist regime for what it truly is, something much of the postmodern West has lost the ability to do and the courage to undertake.
Throughout history, powerful empires have made the same fatal mistake: believing they could erase the Jewish People. The Islamic Republic is next on a long list of Jew-haters who have vanished.
This is not a conflict over two competing national claims. Israel wants to survive, Iran wants to conquer.
For decades, the West has played whack-a-mole with Iran, hoping that diplomacy, sanctions, or deals could contain the threat. But Israel lives in the real world, not in international conference rooms.
Israel is not on trial. Israel was attacked. And any moral conversation begins there.
Now we need to decide whose side we are on. Now we need to get over our fear and take action.
“This is a democracy. You fight dangerous ideas at the ballot box, not with bans from foreign nations.”
In 10 years, millions will remember Israel as having committed a genocide it didn't commit — and forget the genocides that actually did.
The holiest site on earth for the Jewish People is not the Western Wall. It's the Temple Mount, in the heart of Jerusalem.
It's never really been about helping Palestinians; it's about blaming Jews. Let's not get it twisted.
"Unfortunately, the malign forces — unmatched in human history — threaten to consume Jews once more. However, this time, we are winning. The question is, do we have the will to achieve victory?"
Today's "anti-Zionism" is just yesterday's antisemitism — with better PR. So much of the world always finds a new excuse to despise the Jews.
Israel doesn't oppose peace. It opposes suicide. Every nation has the right (and the obligation) to neutralize a threat that has already murdered its civilians and promises to do it again.
The moral software we use to detect antisemitism hasn't been updated in years. It no longer recognizes the new strains of Jew-hate. That's what makes it so dangerous.
I wasn't born a Jew. Rampant college antisemitism drove me to become one.
This is not a war simply against Hamas. It is a war against "Palestine."
Welcome to the UN, where Israel is cast as the world's greatest villain, and its executioners get a standing ovation.
What is it about this popularized Hebrew phrase that seems to drive people batsh*t crazy and leads us to disaster?
As the late, great Rabbi Jonathan Sacks said, a nation is held together by a covenant: a shared story, identity, and responsibility. Israel understands this; much of today's West does not.
The truth is France, Canada, and the UK are so morally confused that Israel pays attention only as a political formality.
If you're going to shout slogans, at least know what you're talking about. Because peddling lies helps no one, least of all the people you claim to support.
This isn't about Gaza. It never was.
Shavuot, which begins Sunday evening and continues throughout Monday, is the most important Jewish holiday that many Jews never truly celebrate.
"Think of the children" is the Palestinians' favorite propaganda strategy.
Legendary writer John Steinbeck walked Israel's soil. What he saw stunned him. For better and for worse, very little has changed.
“Hasbara” has become a religion, a ritual we perform to prove to the world that we are “the good Jews.” But “good Jews” are not spared of murder. So stop explaining, stop apologising, stop pleading.
Apparently Jews control everything (even that random cloud that looks like the Israeli flag). Here's our user manual.
After a killer's political delusions of "righteous violence" drove him to murder random Jews on the streets of America, it is clear that the disease of terrorism has metastasized from Right to Left.
The only country in the Middle East with free press gets vilified for using it.
A hatred so irrational, so obsessive, and so resistant to facts and history should no longer be treated as mere prejudice. It should be diagnosed.
The Holocaust made Jews sad. October 7th and its aftermath made us angry. Two-thousand years of suppressed Jewish rage ends now.
The "Free Palestine" chant doesn't have to make sense. It only needs to unite all against the symbol of "evil" — the one they declared the barrier to a more "just" world: the Jew.
If your commitment to justice is consistent and honest, then you already know that supporting Israel isn't extreme. Pretending it's controversial is.
“Never again!” should stand as a warning to all Jews, not as a source of comfort.
Today's war dresses itself in "progressive" language, legal briefs, and diplomatic forums — but which remains, at its core, a war against the Jews.
Jewish identity cannot be contingent on outside approval. It must be rooted in self-respect, strength, and knowing that our values are only meaningful when paired with the power to protect them.
Through all this chaos, death, and shock, something keeps coming up for me: the strength and moral character of the Israelis.
Powerful politicians across the West are "fighting" antisemitism with one hand, while feeding it with the other. Sadly, they don't seem to understand the link, and it is now costing lives.
You don't seem to understand what kind of people we are.
For too many U.S. politicians, activists, and everyday citizens, antisemitism is only condemned when it is perfectly convenient. But Jews are not a political football; we are people.
Israel is not the side that made child death a war strategy. We are the ones trying to stop it, while the world ties our hands and lectures us on the perversion of “morality.”
The fantasy of an Israeli-Palestinian peace process is a comforting lie we told ourselves. We believed in a future they never wanted.
Israeli Jews ask for forgiveness. Diaspora Jews ask for permission. In our post-October 7th world increasingly hostile to Jewish identity, both are necessary.
The post-World War II European war on nationalism has made it a safe space for antisemitism.
According to Jewish law, yeshiva students should not be exempted en masse from military service.
If Israel wants to be known not just for the tiring Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but for its boundless creativity, it might do well to borrow a page or two from Thailand's cookbook.
When Jews look into the eyes of their haters, they may feel weak, but antisemites are really acknowledging Jewish greatness.