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Robert Tombs, one of our finest historians of Franco-British relations, has surveyed the present moment and found it small. Writing in The Telegraph,...
Some Cristian’s ask “How do the Jews explain Matthew 27:25?” Jews really explain a verse from Other Peoples Religious Scriptures like Matthew,...
I am sixty-two years old. I have been in business for forty years. The only lawsuits I have ever filed in my life are against Lithuania. I am not a...
President Donald Trump rightly eviscerated Barack Obama over the 2015 nuclear deal and the $1.7 billion in cash secretly airlifted to Tehran. That...
Yom HaZikaron and Yom HaAtzmaut: a pairing of days and meaning where one could not exist without the other. There may not be a more perfect summation...
Recently, a student in my government class wore a shirt that read, “Save paper, burn books.” Whether satiric or not, this article of choice...
As Israel marks its 78th Independence Day (Yom Ha’atzmaut), this occasion transcends celebration. It is an invitation to reflect on one of the most...
Not in a way that diminishes anti-Black racism or any other struggle, and not as a comparison, but as a broad movement of anti-racist activists who...
In the span of a few weeks, the Jewish calendar moves through one of its most compressed and revealing stretches. Pesach. Yom HaShoah. Yom HaZikaron....
I am not the first person to point out that a mechanism of antisemitism/antizionism is scapegoating. Soviet writer and journalist Vasily Grossman...
The Clock of History Awaits its Promised Rendez-Vous (Reflection on the Haftorah for Torah Portions Acharei Mot and Kedoshim) Arrogance severs so many...
The case against Bennett is not that he is imperfect. It is that when he needed voters, he made clear promises to them he knew he wouldn’t keep....
In a previous blogpost, I argued that anti-Zionists show their stupidity (i.e., lack of ability to process and analyze simple information) by...
I can hear many news outlets interviewing this war expert and that retired four star general, and they all sound pretty much the same. They are all in...
Trump’s latest move, to extend the ceasefire indefinitely, while maintaining the US blockade of Iran, brings us to a very interesting strategic...
The day was not quiet – not outwardly, not inwardly. It is rarely on what is called Independence Day, יום־הצמאות, when the streets...
From shared feeling to solitary obligation I showed my “God Wrestling” class—which traces how philosophers have wrestled with the idea of...
The diplomatic choreography of April 2026 is rapidly stripping away the illusion of Iranian sovereignty. The sustained engagement between Washington...
Two Birthdays, One Lesson: What Israel at 78 and America at 250 Reveal About Sovereignty As April 2026 unfolds, the calendar offers a rare and...
Thomas Sowell once wrote: “Some things are believed because they are demonstrably true. But many other things are believed simply because they have...
The only path to a real solution is the one already underway: the destruction of the regime that makes the problem possible. Let’s be honest about...
On Israel’s Independence Day, people sing, barbecue, wave flags, and speak about miracles. All of that belongs. A nation should know how to...
The Strait of Hormuz has now been effectively closed for fifty-one days. What makes this crisis feel simultaneously compressed and unmanageable is not...
So interesting how language both informs and reflects culture. Way back when I began learning Hebrew, I looked up the word for “study.” All that...
Call it inconceivable—if not unthinkable. In international politics, today’s impossibilities have a habit of becoming tomorrow’s realities. If...
From Holocaust Remembrance Day through Memorial Day to Independence Day, Israel compresses Jewish history into eight days, and reminds the world what...
Russia’s latest attack on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is not really about historical sensitivity. It is about power, hierarchy, and the...
Last night at our UVM Hillel’s Yom HaZikaron dinner I deeply felt the impact of the Jewish Agency for Israel shlichim on our campus and around the...
With echoes of the Passover still reverberating, the story of the Exodus, of a people breaking free as Egypt collapsed under Pharaoh, offers a...
Under cover of Israel’s wars in the Gaza Strip, Lebanon and Iran since 2023, the Israeli government has consolidated its control of the West Bank...
The overreaction of the world press to the idiotic behavior of the IDF soldier who bashed a statue of Jesus that was on a cross in the garden of a...
There’s the home I’m waiting to own, Furnished just to my tastes. And a business that I can conjure, Though it lives mostly in conceptual space....
Leaders of American Jewish organizations and religious institutions should take note that 40 of 47 Democrat Senators just voted to block a bill...
Yom HaAtzmaut offers a moment to reflect not only on independence, but on the deeper continuity that has shaped the land of Israel. Understanding this...
Life happens on two tracks for every individual who has lost a loved one to war and terrorism throughout Israel’s history. Life itself and the...
Loving Israel Without Lying About It: Diaspora Jewish schools celebrate the dream of Israel. They rarely teach about the expensive slums, unpaid...
What the ceasefire teaches about the heart and soul of Israeli identity. Life goes on in Israel, ceasefire or not. We hear sirens, head to the miklat...
It is midday Yom Haatzma’ut 78th (Israel Independence Day) as I sit and write this post. On this 78th Independence Day in Israel, I, personally, am...
Happy Earth Day! Does anyone else feel the irony: Israel’s Independence Day and a celebration of the global environment falling on the same day? Our...
A word that holds the weight of centuries. The quiet prayers of my parents and grandparents, and all those before them, whispered across continents...
Recent polling on U.S. attitudes toward Israel points to a troubling and accelerating shift. Favorability has declined sharply, particularly along...
For the past few months or perhaps years, depending on how you count, I’ve been bushwhacking my way off the beaten path of contemporary Jewish...
A fundraising campaign for the South African BDS Coalition has been posted on the Facebook page of Nigel Branken on 18 April 2026. All proceeds are...
He sat in his cell, rubbing away his tears, asking himself: What the hell was I thinking? Why did I lift that sledgehammer and bring it down on the...
Last week I wrote about the reality that Judaism was never just a religion. Here, I want to consider what happens when we start labeling what kind of...
Everything begins with Hamas launching the largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. It did so against the backdrop of a deep crisis within the...
Though famous for their informal dress and way of speech, Israelis are enamored of formal ceremonies. Independence Day is, of course, a hub of such...
There are moments in history when the global economy feels steady and predictable, even if imperfect. And then there are moments like this one, where...
At a time when things were about to escalate, Donald Trump opted to extend the ceasefire with Iran—but not without a reminder of the ongoing risks....
A reflection on Parashot Acharei Mot–Kedoshim Woody Allen once joked that he suffers from post-partum depression, because since the day he was born,...
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