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One thing that has strengthened us throughout this nightmare is coming together in song & prayer. We invite all of Israel - secular, religious, ultra Orthodox, right & left wing - to join us Tues night as we raise our voices for our 59 hostages still in captivity. Jon Polin ג'ון פולין

Ministers who block a hostage deal but wear a hostage pin are like the CEO of McDonald’s wearing a vegan pin. It’s not authentic and it’s disingenuous. Rachel Goldberg-Polin, mother of Hersh z”l, on the family’s request for ministers to remove the pins. Full episode link

“This Passover, there’s only one question” — Rachel Goldberg joins Call Me Back to reflect on the paradox of Passover 2025. Listen here: lnk.to/HjBW9s

A look at the first book by an Israeli officer in the Gaza war (Col. Asaf Hazani, an anthropologist in civilian life), and at how soldiers are navigating a murky moral battlefield and the longest conflict in our history. My latest, in the new Jewish Review of Books: jewishreviewofbooks.com/contemporary-i…

אני גאה ונרגש להודיע שלקראת יום הזיכרון אנחנו ב"קומו" מובילים את פרויקט הזיכרון הלאומי "מנציחים ביחד". במסגרת הפרויקט, משפחות ה-7 באוקטובר ומלחמת חרבות ברזל פותחות את בתיהן לערב אחד, ומספרות את הסיפור של היקירים שלהן: אלה שיצאו לרקוד – ולא חזרו. אלה שלחמו על המדינה שאנחנו כל

A war that starts with a Hamas massacre leads to a Canadian prime minister endorsing a conspiracy theory about Jews

Americans are sent to sweatshops, Gen Z goes to church, Mississippi becomes the education capital of the world, real showers are back, our military is big again, and much, much more. thefp.com/p/tgif-yippy-a…

A brilliant telling of one of the great Israeli literary stories: The translation of J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit" into Hebrew by POWs spending years in an Egyptian prison. By Mitch Ginsburg for Israel Story: open.spotify.com/episode/4JQK6p…

We’re launching a Canada newsletter The Free Press as an experiment with me at the helm. If you like my work, value quality and independent journalism, and are tired of the noise on both extremes, consider subscribing to the newsletter.

I’ve been communicating with some of the organizers of the anti-Hamas protests in the Gaza Strip and just got off the phone with one of them. They’ve been relaying a sense of utter betrayal by the international human rights community, “pro-Palestine” activists, international and

“In Hamas-run Gaza, where the price of dissent can be death, this kind of public defiance would once have been unthinkable. Now, it’s happening in broad daylight.” Watch exclusive footage from the anti-Hamas protests, in partnership with Center for Peace Communications. thefp.com/p/watch-gazans…

מתחרים על המגרש. מתאחדים יחד ביום ראשון כדי להחזיר את כל החטופים הביתה.

On the deep Zionism of Yom HaShoah. (This is long. I'm sorry for that.) Tonight is Yom HaShoah, the day of commemoration for our murdered millions, for the few but shining examples of those who had the chance to rebel and fight back, and for the unfathomable courage of those who

In this Jewish Review of Books podcast, editor Abe Socher and I look at the Gaza battlefield through the lens of an new book about the war ("Iron Swords: Field Notes," by Asaf Hazani), and ask how Israel can defeat an implacable enemy without losing its soul: open.spotify.com/episode/2XOEvj…

I'm thrilled to be at the American Jewish Committee Forum in New York, beginning this evening, with some of the best thinkers and doers where Israel and the Jewish world are concerned: ajc.org/global-forum-2…

The team rebuilding Kibbutz Nir Oz had to stop and answer a question they weren’t expecting: What is a kibbutz? thefp.com/p/matti-friedm…

“For much of the life of the state of Israel… if you knew one thing about the country, it was the kibbutz,” writes Matti Friedman. Born of “practical communism,” it symbolized a shared future. After the massacre, that future is uncertain. thefp.pub/3EJeZvM

HOW QATAR BOUGHT AMERICA. A The Free Press investigation by Frannie Block and Jay Solomon. Read it here: thefp.com/p/how-qatar-bo…

A significant part of the Western writing scene now operates in a world of ideological fantasy. The effect on real people in the Middle East will be minimal. The effect on literature will be dire theguardian.com/world/2025/may…

Thanks to my wise colleague Haviv Rettig Gur for this conversation about Israel's experience in Lebanon--25 years after the withdrawal--and how it continues to shape us and our enemies: open.spotify.com/episode/7JdGBp…