14+ hour, 49+ min ago  (573+ words) As a non-Jewish college student, I felt both excitement and trepidation when I got the call that I had been accepted into a newsmaking tour of Israel. Was I really ready to go to Israel to witness, report and write…...

16+ hour, 19+ min ago  (270+ words) This is not a distant risk. It is the system operating today, as millions board flights under the same constraints " just as the country approaches the summer travel surge, when volumes peak. The numbers should unsettle anyone who flies. Since…...

15+ hour, 49+ min ago  (369+ words) To opponents of the president, he erred in launching an attack on Iran at a time when Iran did not pose an imminent threat. Under this analysis, President Trump should not have acted unless the Iranian regime had actually initiated…...

16+ hour, 49+ min ago  (322+ words) Much of this reflected legitimate concerns and, in some cases, necessary reform. But taken together, it also created a perception " sometimes overstated, but politically potent " that the party had become more fluent in advocacy than in the language of everyday…...

17+ hour, 18+ min ago  (296+ words) Was JD Vance the right person to send to Islamabad? The better question may be: What, exactly, was the mission? The 21-hour negotiations between the United States and Iran ended predictably " no agreement, no movement on Tehran's core position and…...

18+ hour, 29+ min ago  (382+ words) This is not a postwar assessment. It is a snapshot " taken in the uneasy pause of a tenuous ceasefire that may not hold by the time this is read. The guns are quieter, but not silent. Both sides are resting,…...

17+ hour, 48+ min ago  (922+ words) It started with a sentence spoken in a classroom. A teacher told a group of students that Israel was bombing Iranian children. The statement was presented without context, without clarification and without any attempt to frame the complexity of what…...

19+ hour, 18+ min ago  (203+ words) This week's Torah portion is Tazria-Metzora: Leviticus 12: 1 " 15: 33 The commentators will dizzy themselves attempting to connect these essays on treatment to our own evolved lives and lifestyles today. They will also struggle to explain why someone might have come down with…...

1+ day, 10+ hour ago  (1109+ words) Colorectal cancer rates are climbing among young people and Ashkenazi Jews. First, the good news. Among Americans under 50, the overall cancer mortality has plummeted by 44% over the last quarter-century. Better diagnostic tools, along with a sharp drop in smoking, helps…...

1+ day, 10+ hour ago  (820+ words) Despite security challenges and limited flights, hundreds have made aliyah in 2026. Mordechai Deluca never considered delaying his move to Israel from the United States because of the war with Iran. If anything, the opposite is true. "My worry was, how…...