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The Myth of One Way Aid For years critics of Israel have repeated the same tired claim. Israel survives only because of American money. Israel is...
The violence that swept Syria’s coastal region in March 2025 marked one of the deadliest episodes of sectarian bloodshed since the beginning of the...
A TALE OF TWO PASSOVERS: CELEBRATING FREEDOM UNDER CAPTIVITY c. 1500 Passover, the Festival of Freedom, in 1497 and 1506, was marked in Portugal by...
The Law of Self-Defense and the Iran Conflict In moments of crisis, the international legal debate often begins with a simple question: who started...
On February 28, 2026, the United States and Israel launched a joint military operation against Iran that killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei...
Parshat Ki Tissa discusses the sin of the Golden Calf. This sin that took place only forty days after the revelation at Sinai, caused irrevocable...
How modern debates quietly become permission structures I had stepped away from writing for a while. Not because there was nothing happening in the...
These days feel unprecedented as our region confronts the consequences of Iranian aggression. In moments like these, nations are tested, not only in...
Two days ago, I spoke with an American-Israeli tech entrepreneur about the US-Israeli strikes on Iran and the deaths of over a hundred and sixty girls...
History is full of moments of opposites, when the world seems at a crossroads of disaster and redemption. We are now in one of those moments. Living...
Just because everything has to be twisted to attack Donald Trump. Iran’s Uprising Is Not a “Regime Change” Script When unrest erupts in Iran,...
Two days ago, I spoke with an American-Israeli tech entrepreneur about the US-Israeli strikes on Iran and the deaths of over a hundred and sixty girls...
AIR POWER AND A STRONG U.S.-ISRAEL ALLIANCE IS DEFEATING IRAN’S REGIME FORCES As Israelis have been celebrating Purim, the current war with the...
The Strait of Hormuz does not need to be formally closed to be strategically decisive. It is enough that it becomes dangerous. At its narrowest point,...
Ki Tissa sits like an island inside the Tabernacle narrative that defines the end of the Book of Exodus. Before it, Torah teaches the building of the...
“A home is a… stronghold amid life’s storms and stresses, a refuge… a sanctuary.” –Letters and Papers from Prison, Dietrich Bonhoeffer...
The sinking of the Iranian frigate Dena by a U.S. Navy nuclear attack submarine is the first such instance since 1945 only because America has been...
http://gty.im/1963764522 Rarely is a production as muddled and disappointing as its underlying script as is to be found in Jordan Fein’s take on...
In the immediate aftermath of October 7th, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu looked politically finished and rightly so. Hamas’s brutal assault...
The claim that Israel somehow forced the United States into a war with Iran is not new. It is simply the modern version of one of the oldest...
Here’s another question. Did Israel convince Qatar and other Arab states to be upset and issue statements against Iran, and to now consider joining...
It has been quite a Shushan Purim in Jerusalem. We were awaken to a tzeva adom (a red alert) at around 6:00 a.m. Nothing like running half asleep to...
In recent days, a dramatic escalation in missile and drone strikes by Iran has transformed a regional confrontation into one of the most dangerous...
Is post-Khamenei Iran following a blind roadmap? What we observe corresponds to a real phenomenon that can be called ‘pre-programmed emergency...
The Right to Self-Defense – For One Day Only[1] According to Megillat Esther, even after Haman was hanged, Esther was not at ease. The decrees he...
International law has been hijacked. It was originally designed to establish the rules of civilized warfare and protect the innocent. Today, it is...
(Please note: Written and submitted for publication before the current situation) Humor is entirely subjective. My parents loved to laugh and were, in...
Every day we make choices.Small ones and large ones. What to say and what to leave unsaid. Whether to react or to pause. Life rarely confronts us with...
Every office insists it’s a “dynamic environment.” Translation: chaos, ego, and the occasional adult tantrum performed by people who earn enough...
I held my breath: “My son, where are you?” I thought. “Are you still alive? Are you still here in the world of the living? A world for impact,...
End the Islamist regime. Transfer full power to the pro-Western opposition that represents the majority of Iranians. Turn over to it: all government...
It is my practice on Fridays, before the onset of Shabbat, to send a message to everyone in the office. I try to be at least a little bit inspiring...
There are a whole lotta questions rattling around my head as I watch Tzofar alerts on my phone. I may be in the States, but my heart is nowhere near...
The current Iranian escalation and the widening attacks against multiple states in the region — including Gulf countries and even Cyprus — raise a...
My personal journey into understanding why Iran is so intensely hostile toward Israel began when I studied at the Islamic College in London, which...
I don’t know about you, but over the past week my social media feeds have been overflowing with Purim costumes. Friends, grandchildren, neighbors...
Iranians are watching you. Now that the European Union and the United Kingdom are entangled in Iran’s crisis, it is painfully clear: our country is...
UN Rapporteur Albanese once reported that “Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza is at an escalatory stage of a long-standing settler colonial...
Sometimes redemption emerges from messy circumstances, flawed personalities, and unlikely alliances. Each year on Purim we retell a story filled with...
The current war in Iran has spilled into Lebanon, much to Iran’s satisfaction. Hezbollah, a creation of Iran and Iran’s chief proxy in the Middle...
I conducted an exclusive interview with a pastor who works in the care and support of Muslim refugees in Brazil. For security reasons and to preserve...
“I will tell you that AIPAC may call itself pro-American. They may call themselves pro-Israel. But they are neither. They have been a very...
Sitting in a coffee shop in London with my wife and sister, we were trying to translate one of the ruder Hebrew sayings in a way that will rhyme in...
Introduction: Recovering a Silenced Story For centuries, Western narratives portrayed Africa as passive—a continent of helpless victims, easily...
In the post-World War II era, the international community established what were meant to be Universal Taboos. These were the “red lines” of...
The brief story of Amalek is perhaps the oddest story in the Five Books of Moses. Ostensibly, Amalek, whether a terrorist nation or a terrorist who...
An incident that took place earlier this week between the Jewish community of Shiloh and the Palestinian village of Qaryut in the Binyamin region...
I write this from a religious freedom conference convened by Empower Women Media, led by Iranian-American advocate Shirin Taber and Lebanese-American...
This week’s parsha is dedicated to the heroic soldiers, security forces and first responders of the IDF, defenders of the Jewish people and the land...
“The shoes are full of stones scattered in them.” The sentence landed with the dull thud of something that should not be possible and stopped me...
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