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Nietzsche is probably one of the most misunderstood and manipulated philosophers in history. The most pernicious manipulation of him was...

Many things that worried us tremendously a few months ago seem to have lost their urgency in the age of COVID19. As Bari Weiss noted in a...

Pantaphobia is a very rare medical condition in which the patient feels absolutely no fear. Thanks to a middle-aged American woman known...

Here's A Better Strategy for Addressing the Crisis In the current crisis, we are hearing calls in the Jewish media and in leadership...

Scroll down or click here to watch this speech. “These are the times that try men’s souls,” said Thomas Paine. And these times are trying...

Time has a knack for irony. The last of Chronos’ practical jokes: making us celebrate a holiday in which we disguise ourselves, in the...

Stav Harari and Dean Shoshani, both 25, had just started their lives together in a new apartment in the colorful Hatikvah Quarter in...

American Jews are anxious. Antisemitism and Judeophobia, which didn’t used to be overriding concerns in the daily lives of Jewish...

22 years ago, Mikhail Gorbachev found himself in a situation he never imagined he’d be in: broke. This was the man who had led a world...

Stop me if you’ve heard this one: Israel is locked in conflict over how to treat non-Jewish people living in the land. Stark divisions...

In a crisis, short-term efficiency can be a shock amplifier. Long-term efficiency comes from building resilient institutions. This...

Liberal democracy is in danger. From Hungary and Poland to Brazil and Venezuela, democracy is in retreat. Even in solid democracies like...

Until now, I’ve always felt at home in the world. I have lived in five different countries and visited close to a hundred. I’ve always...

Far from shore or any other vessel, the people on a small sailboat found themselves surrounded by sharks, just as something pierced a...

I’ve seen the creation of the world on live TV. No, I really have; and you probably have too, many times, without realizing it. Remember...

One feels as if there has been a conscious attempt to minimize the days of mourning and sadness in the calendar, packing as much grief...

One of the things that make my job at JFN so rich and interesting is the debates, even arguments, that we have within our staff. I love...

In his article, “‘The Establishment’ Has No Clothes: The New Jewish ‘Influence Economy,’” the always brilliant and thoughtful Yehuda...

A lost tribe, a brand of beer, the history and future of Jewish resilience, and how Shavuot explains it all. The Quilmes, a nation...

The word utopia was first used by Sir Thomas More in 1516. He coined the term combining two Greek words: ou (not) and topos (place), and...

Ask most people what motivates philanthropy and they’ll probably say, “generosity.” But generosity isn’t simple. People give charity for...

Do you think that leaders who are assertive, self-assured, speak clearly, and “call a spade a spade” are better leaders? Think twice....

On April 16, Alain Soral, a well-known French anti-Semite, was sentenced to one year in prison by a French court for “negationisme”,...

A 19-year-old boy was arguably the most influential person in the 20th century and, most probably, you’ve never heard of him. His name...