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Hayim Leiter is a rabbi, mohel, wedding officiant and member of a private beit din in Israel. He founded Magen HaBrit, an organization that protects the ceremony of brit milah and the children who undergo it. He lives in Efrat and can be reached on X.

While it may be true that actions in Belgium and Ireland are legal overreaches directed at the Jewish community, playing the antisemitic card may be doing more harm than good.
Israel is the one place in the Middle East where citizens can speak freely, practice their religion and be safe from persecution.
This past week was marked by an unofficial policy change in Israel.
Jews are not losers. The world should start to accept that.
I cannot understand how people convince themselves that the actions of Hamas are equal to that of the Israel Defense Forces—or even more justified.
Conversion is a one-way street; an individual will always be Jewish from this point on, even if that person changes his or her mind.
Israel’s existential battle with Hamas did not give birth to our enemies; it just gave them an excuse and a cover to publicly hate Jews once again.
There are those in the West who are doing everything they can to keep this war from becoming a global conflict. But they have their heads in the sand.
From the focus on the family unit to the welcoming of all religions to live and pray in one house, the State of Israel is the only true democracy left.