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.
Jewish history is littered with real-life examples of what happens when sociopolitical movements become messianic doctrines. The outcome is rarely pretty.
Back then, “Palestinian” meant Jewish. Ask anyone who lived through it.
If we define ourselves predominantly through the fight against antisemitism, we risk reinforcing the very image they project onto us.
Our enemy is not just fighting with guns and bombs. They are experts at weaponizing emotion — guilt, shame, grief, fear, rage — and turning it against us. Let's not fall into their pernicious trap.
For those who courageously stand with Israel, here is a step-by-step strategy to shut down the false genocide narrative levied at the Jewish state and expose the dangerous double standards fueling it.
This one "what if" could rewrite 2,000 years of Jewish exile, suffering, and persecution. Now, the path to be taken rests on our shoulders.
When it comes to Jews, longtime social work ethics have become voided as an integral part of our field.
We're not asking for your loyalty, just your ability to mind your own business.
Far too many Palestinians and their "supporters" choose terror over peace and coexistence, propaganda over truth, and endless sympathy without any accountability.
Israel can't both rescue the hostages and defeat Hamas. It's a devastating moral dilemma, but reality always beats wishful thinking.
How has Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu come to be seen as the embodiment of evil? Is he really the monster that the media often portrays him to be?
The UK wants to recognize a Palestinian state based on bizarre logic. Hamas is thrilled, of course — but what happens when we apply the British prime minister's own reasoning to the Palestinians?
We have to stop sounding the alarm about antisemitism as a political strategy to get our neighbors to care. It's not working, and it may even be hurting us.
Hamas isn't a government. It's not a liberation or "resistance" movement. It's a gang, a mafia. Maybe that reframing will wake up more people to the reality in Gaza and other parts of the Middle East.
Feeding the enemy, trading hostages for terrorists, and extending the war under the banner of morality are not acts of ethics; they are acts of madness.
Feeding people in Gaza isn't simply a humanitarian issue. It's a power struggle, and the United Nations is not impartial. They are aiding and abetting Hamas.
When Jews turn on Jews, everyone loses. And yet we keep making the same ignorant mistake.
External parties can dream about "Palestine" until they go blue in the face, but the reality is that Palestinians have zero capability to self-govern, no less zero desire to live in peace with Israel.
In 2018, I visited two refugee camps in Lebanon, a place where Israelis are banned and Jews aren't welcome. What I saw shattered what I thought I understood about humanitarian aid.
No, Israel doesn't owe Gazans breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Would you seriously feed your neighbor who's trying to set your house ablaze and viciously murder your family?
Moving here taught me to thrive with thorns.
Here's the uncomfortable truth: Most of this caring is performative. It's cheap outrage, a way to feel righteous and stroke the ego without paying a price. Meanwhile, people in Israel and Gaza suffer.
“An army marches on its stomach.”
The only real way to understand this saga is to understand its perpetual cause-and-effect nature.
"Anti-Zionists" cheer for the side whose game plan for victory is sacrificing as many of their own civilians as possible.
Now they found their man — an Israeli! a Jew! — to give Times readers exactly what they want to hear: that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, no matter how remotely untrue and unverified this is.
It's bad enough when Jew-haters attack us. It's much worse when our own people do.
To define the Jewish state by its current government or any of its governments or politicians is to misunderstand what Israel is, and worse, to pollute its very essence.
Empathy itself being used as a weapon instead of a bridge. I call this phenomenon “empathicide.”
If current trends continue, and if voting patterns start to reflect the shifting views of the electorate, we may find ourselves in uncharted territory.
When jihadists talk demographics, the Jewish People ought to listen.
It makes no moral sense — until you recognize the real ideology at play: stay oppressed, or be villainized. Liberation is only acceptable if it never actually arrives.
The State of Israel is younger than McDonald's, Coca-Cola, Harley-Davidson, JCPenney, Colgate, and your grandma's microwave. Yet the world expects it to have the wisdom of a centuries-old monastery.
Jews must use their power in many ways, and the most effective is to employ wildly disproportionate means to achieve deterrence.
We're living through a spiritual armageddon — and most people don't see it.
Ali Khamenei lives today not because Israel can't kill him, but because Israel believes some lines should not be crossed, even when facing an enemy that respects none.
Can we develop the courage to be despised, and the strength to be beloved? That is the Jewish paradox.
"Students for Justice in Palestine" is not about Palestinians. It's about hating Jews. It's Hamas' PR team at Western universities.
Stop asking if Israel committed war crimes. Start asking who told you that.
In “The Merchant of Venice,” the English playwright provides a description of Judeophobia before the word existed.
This is what happens when we only mourn some victims of history.
Instead of apologizing, Jews should remind the world: We were here before you, and we will be leaving after you. We are fine just the way we are.
Despite its reputation for tolerance, Britain has long nurtured antisemitism — from Shakespeare to the BBC, from street protests to state policy — and today it's resurfacing with alarming intensity.
What I saw during my visit to Israel destroyed this absurd lie.
From British blueprints to billionaire fantasies, every grand vision for Gaza has collapsed under the weight of war, terror, and history.
This wasn't just an attack on Israel. It was an attack on human progress.
Now, I'm an Israeli citizen living in one of the country's most diverse cities, where coexistence isn't just a buzzword but a real way of life.
As one of the greatest politicians of our time, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu isn't just strategizing; he's rewriting the rules of power.
Welcome to the "TikTok Intifada," delivered by the Chinese Communist Party, amplified by the Muslim Brotherhood, and coming to a smartphone near you.
Israel isn't judged because it's uniquely brutal. It's judged because it's uniquely Jewish.