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Toward the end of Netflix’s “Into the Manosphere,” documentary filmmaker Louis Theroux chats in Marbella, Spain, with British influencer Ed...
This will be the first of many blog posts here IYH on the Times of Israel website. In order to introduce myself, I will not write about the...
What Cairo is selling as a “historic new page” with Rabat is, in truth, the latest symptom of a regime in slow-motion decline. On April 6,...
The 14-day truce announced yesterday—implicitly trading a de-escalation for the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz—has triggered a profound schism...
A worker can lose his job for a serious mistake. A driver can lose his license. A surgeon can lose the right to operate. But in Washington’s war...
Eight months ago, we were told that Israel had obliterated Iran’s nuclear capabilities in a feat of biblical proportions. Six weeks ago we were...
Tehran’s refusal to accept an interim arrangement is not a sign of strength. It is a sign of denial. At a moment when pressure on Iran is mounting...
There’s a habit in modern politics of mistaking the symptom for the cause. The NSW Government’s response to rising antisemitism is a textbook...
Listening and the Work of Justice Scripture“Hear, O Israel: The Lord is our God, the Lord is one.”— Deuteronomy 6:4 “Learn to do good; seek...
In Parshat Shemini, we read of the sin of Nadav and Avihu on the day of the dedication of the Mishkan. The day that should have been so joyous, was...
There was a time when I felt it was much more important attending Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) commemorations than Yom Kippur services. Not...
Almost five years after the release of my documentary Baltic Truth—a film exposing Holocaust distortion in Latvia and Lithuania, now streaming on...
Ceasefire Betrayal Leaves Israel Exposed There are moments in history when hesitation is not just a mistake but a danger. This is one of them. Many...
One of the unexpected silver linings of the past decade has been the emergence of smart, accessible podcasts. Podcasts have become something like a...
From November 4th, 1979, until January 20th, 1981, the bitter taste of impotence coated my mouth as CBS’s Walter Cronkite counted, night after...
Part 3 of 4: The day Lithuanians could no longer murder Jews with impunity In Part 1, I exposed the formula — Nazis, Soviets, and collaborators —...
When President Trump announced on Truth Social, less than two hours before his self-imposed 8 p.m. deadline, that the United States and Iran had...
Iranian state television declared today that the Iranian-mined Strait of Hormuz was closed once again. Minutes later, maritime tracking data from...
A Strategic Analysis of the Iran–U.S.–Israel War and Its Consequences for the Future Order of the Middle East In every military conflict, all...
For the first time in over a month, there was no alert, no siren today. The last one came at 3:30 a.m when a cluster munition warhead passed overhead...
January 1, 2020 was a very cold day in Northern New Jersey, made even colder by swirling, strong winds. If someone had asked how to find me in the...
My parents never had a conversation with me about antisemitism. For the most part, they didn’t need to. I grew up in Orlando, Florida—about 160...
There is a difference between drawing meaning from a story and rewriting it to fit your own. At the Seder table, that difference is not trivial. It...
“Know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster.” This 5th Century BCE admonition by the Chinese general...
News of the ceasefire announced by President Trump reached me at 01:30 this morning as my family and I huddled in the saferoom of our home and awaited...
From the Splitting of the Red Sea to the Opening of the Straits of Hormuz We have just come out of the holiness of the seventh day of Passover. But...
As the war in the Middle East has reached a new phase, a new parallel discussion has begun again. That of the role of NATO, as well as the possibility...
If yesterday’s two-week cease fire deal takes root it will spell the end of American economic and military dominance in the Middle East, possibly...
Jewish history is basically the story of tribes, exile, and the repeated discovery that somewhere else might be slightly less hostile. Which is why it...
A pro-Palestinian organization in Germany is trying to smear Israel by means of a deceitful political campaign. Kufiyas in Buchenwald hopes to stage a...
The Middle East without Israel: A Counterfactual Analysis from a Geopolitical Perspective Faced with the endless discussions that portray Israel as...
Gradually stories of survival through music in captivity are coming to light. After more than two years of torture in the Hamas tunnels in Gaza...
After a short pause in writing —a pause that did not feel optional —I return not to theory, but to a table. Pesach this year arrived carrying more...
Urban traffic is no longer just a matter of transportation; it has become a question of quality of life. Whether in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, or any other...
The cease-fire against Iran comes at a strange and unfortunate moment. This is because by Tuesday 7 April, the 39th day of the war and the day before...
A ceasefire, putting the US-Israeli war with Iran on hold for two weeks. Nothing substantive achieved since war broke out on February 28. Cosmetic...
In a recent interview published in Haaretz, Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil stated that the Jewish people are “part of the land.” At first...
Explain to this mother in Israel like I’m five, how are we supposed to ask our sons and daughters to trust this government after this farce? This is...
Since the ceasefire was announced last night, I have been wracking my brain to identify any true successes to come out of this extension of the...
There are political mistakes. There are strategic miscalculations. And then there is that particular kind of stupidity which dresses itself up as...
We live in times that have so far eclipsed “interesting” as to make a mockery of that very concept. We in America are divided in ways that seem to...
As they used to sing when I young, “I woke up this morning, you [Trump] were on my mind.”...
A mere two years after Donald Trump started his first term as president of the United States, authors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt published a...
If this “ceasefire” truly marks the end of the war, it is a deeply troubling outcome. Because by any strategic measure, the regime in Iran emerges...
We are currently living in a period of geopolitical change, especially in the Middle East. The events of the last two and a half years, October 7 and...
It has been said that the unwritten norm for diplomatic engagements is the Theodore Roosevelt formula; “Speak softly and carry a big stick, you will...
A dangerous new reality is taking shape in Libya. The country is no longer merely fractured by internal rivalries. It has become an undeclared theater...
A recent Times of Israel article on Mordecai Kaplan and the public backlash against his rewritten Haggadah and prayer book offers more than an episode...
They poured out from Gaza, racing deep across the Judaean fields, many kilometers into Israel, killing the old and weak, kidnapping the ones they...
An honorary degree that says more than it seems When three Flemish (Belgian) universities decided to award a joint honorary doctorate to...
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