Compared to the wit of the anti-Vietnam slogans of the late 60s, the anti-Israel chants of today are aggressively tedious. What does that say about the chanters?

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War with Hizballah still looms to Israel's north. What are the odds of it happening, and if it does, what would it look like?

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'We cannot afford to take lightly the disruptions this new technology will bring. I am convinced that Judaism has the resources to confront these disruptions, if we Jews are prudent about how we use them'

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Many on the Israeli right claim that the soldiers who fight and die for the country no longer belong to the old secular elite but to a rising national-religious one.Rafi DeMogge רפי דמוג examines whether they're correct.

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“The state-religious education system is more reliable at producing combat soldiers than producing religious Zionists.”

Interesting, as always, by Rafi DeMogge רפי דמוג
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As both sides escalate by the day and as the fighting in Gaza simmers down, many Israelis are growing convinced that full-scale war with Hizballah is unavoidable.

Are they right?

Raphael BenLevi asks this question for Mosaic's monthly essay.

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Joe Lieberman 'carried himself with pride and commitment to Judaism, but always without rancor,' writes Elliott Abrams in remembrance of the late senator. mosaicmagazine.com/observation/po…

As advanced computing allows food to be created in radically new ways, standard kosher categories will become increasingly less useful. What happens then?

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On our podcast this week, Tim Carney explains how American culture turned against raising kids, and shows how Jewish communities can be models of healthy, family-oriented society

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The noisemakers that children use on Purim are traditionally called groggers, but that word, often used in Yiddish, is not actually from that language. Where does it come from?

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'As we develop better tools that allow us to perform more tasks in less time, perhaps the wisdom of Judaism can be invoked to address a question that will continue to haunt us: where exactly are we rushing to?'

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'Judaism in some crucial ways protects Jews from overvaluing work—which means that the loss of work may be less devastating to them' writes Moshe Koppel in our feature essay on AI and Judaism

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AI has the potential to change the way Jews study Torah, observe Jewish law, work with rabbis, and teach their children. In our feature essay this month, Moshe Koppel explores whether Jews will resist those changes or welcome them

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'Both Cahan and the neoconservatives made the same transition away from Marxism to appreciation of America and Judaism, and both came under similar attack from the left for their deviation' writes Ruth Wisse

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It's been 10 years since the Russia-Ukraine war began, and two years since this latest phase. A European security expert joins the podcast to discuss what American has learned from this conflict, and how it should treat it going forward.

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'Could today's Jewish left produce another Cahan? That depends on which way today's Jews are headed' mosaicmagazine.com/response/arts-…

Of all the actors that have taken the world stage since October 7, the Houthis are surely the most surprising. Where did they come from and what do they want? mosaicmagazine.com/observation/po…

When one speaks of Israelis and Palestinians dehumanizing each other, one not only creates a false equivalency, one euphemistically blunts the horror of what each side has gone through

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Despite his Marxist roots, Abraham Cahan came to reject Communism and support the Jewish state, bringing his fellow American Jews along with him

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