In These Times with Rabbi Ammi Hirsch

Israel’s Oct. 27 elections left no clear path to a governing majority. The Times of Israel's founding editor David Horovitz unpacks the results, outlines the bloc arithmetic and possible scenarios, and discusses what the outcome could mean for Israel’s standing in the West and its ties with American Jews.

The Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy claims to have uncovered $100 billion in dark money that has flowed into U.S. universities over the past 50 years. Dr. Charles Asher Small has the receipts, and he connects billions in undocumented Qatari and Muslim Brotherhood-linked funding to the explosion of antisemitism on campuses after October 7th.

Raised Christian in Connecticut after her family fled Lebanon’s civil war, Hagar Chemali learned as a teenager that her mother was Jewish. A former White House national security official and U.N. spokesperson who co-founded the Lebanon-Israel Peace Alliance, Chemali explains why she believes a peace accord between Israel and Lebanon is possible within the next two years.

The Atlantic's Franklin Foer traces how Jews moved from the margins to the heart of American life before the sun started to set on that "Golden Age." He argues that the decline has serious implications for Jewish security, American democracy and Israel's standing — and that the way forward is through continued engagement.

In this special episode, Rabbi Ammi Hirsch delivers his keynote address from the third Re-CHARGING Reform Judaism conference, a gathering of more than 350 Reform rabbis and Jewish leaders at Stephen Wise Free Synagogue. Addressing what he sees as a crisis of Jewish peoplehood, Zionism and moral confidence within liberal Jewish life, Hirsch argues that the future of Reform Judaism depends on renewed commitment to the Jewish people, Israel, and the values that have long defined the movement.