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The IRGC’s Exit Strategy: How the Regime Plans to Survive Its Own Collapse

Catherine Perez-Shakdam

Dancing with chavismo

Jonathan Shavit

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Moshe-Mordechai Van Zuiden

Tal-Sarah the ‘Tankistit’ and the Fighting Females of the IDF

Tuvia Book

Fabian UK out-Islams the Muslim Brotherhood

Bepi Pezzulli

The Light of Hanukkah in Tbilisi: Unity, Trust, and an Unexpected Honor

Mikheil Khachidze

Dinner with Eli and Batya – Thoughts on the Bible Lands Museum, Jerusalem

Geoffrey Clarfield

The Thorn Bush: Emphathy Builds Leaders

Eliezer Simcha Weiss

Nazi Scandal in the German Army

Francis Moritz

PTSD – on Steroids. A psychological epidemic after ‘October 7.’

Rocky Abramson

Anti-Zionism and the Inverted World: Recasting Jews as Colonial Villains

Kile Jones

Dressing the Torah

Rebecca Liebermann Nissel

Moses, Minneapolis, & Not Fearing the Truth

Aaron Benson

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Jon Taub

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Craig Frank

Israel’s Recognition of Somaliland and Moral Clarity

Bruce D. Forman

When Refuge Turns into Reversal

Mordechai Levin

The Revealing of the Messiah

Abraham Mannil Thomas

Why Many Jews Feel Emotionally Exhausted Right Now

Bruce D. Forman

New Lines, Old Sand

Aurele Aaron Tobelem

Time to Shut Down the BBC

Michael Boyden

The Emerging Board of Peace: Invitations, Omissions, and Strategic Hesitation

William Keenan

When Leadership Begins by Stepping Forward

Benjy Morgan

The Cure to Hidden Pain (Shemot)

Ben-Tzion Spitz

Iran and the Mechanics of Media Caution

Yochanan Schimmelpfennig

We are historical ‘Zionists.’ How should we identify now?

Lou Sandler

The Many Ways Jewish Institutions Hurt…Jews

Nina B. Mogilnik

When Activism Crosses a Legal Line

Mordechai Levin

The Court of Public Opinion: Killing Renee Good

Allen B. Goodman

Is Ra’anana Turning Its Back on Aliyah?

Oshy Ellman

Historiographical Archetypes and the Jews of Morocco

Yigal Bin-Nun

To Publish or Not to Publish

Berl Falbaum

Bibi, We Love You…But It’s Time

Sherwin Pomerantz

Israel’s Recognition of Somaliland: Hypocrisy Exposed

Abdullahi Hussein Daud

Israel, Turkey, Somalia and Somaliland Recognition

Fathi Garaad Essa

When the Loudest Voices Know the Least

Joe Bergovoy

Finally, A Bill That Will Actually Fight Antisemitism

Jamie Beran

Seeing the End of Evil: Psalm 73 and Greenland

Mikhail Salita

Greenland is not Venezuela. It is also not Cyprus