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Richard DiamondThe Times of Israel (Blogs) |
The fracture in Israeli society is not a failure of leadership or civility. It’s a war between four incompatible visions of what this country is...
(This post is a summary of https://rdiamond.substack.com/p/from-infinite-potential-to-purposeful) The Kabbalistic tradition names the originating...
The case for a decisive 30-day campaign to end the Iran crisis once and for all Wars have moments. Fleeting alignments of military reality, political...
The Iran End Game: Forced Surrender, Regional Reconstruction, and the Path Beyond Theocracy The Failure of the Ceasefire Paradigm History has a...
The Death Wish as Strategy: Martyrdom Culture and the Failure of Deterrence The architecture of modern deterrence theory rests on a deceptively simple...
To Tucker Carlson and Every Bible-Quoting Antisemite: Stop Using God’s Name to Curse the Jews There is something especially vile about using the...
Orthodoxy in a World Built to Change There is a deep tension at the heart of religious orthodoxy, and it becomes most visible when we take creation...
There is a striking difference between the first tablets and the second, and it is not accidental. The first tablets are described as entirely the...
Sometimes redemption emerges from messy circumstances, flawed personalities, and unlikely alliances. Each year on Purim we retell a story filled with...
On Purim, Judaism does something daring. It turns the synagogue into a theater. We boo villains. We cheer heroes. We dress in costume. We feast. We...
A Wandering Jew’s Case for a Wider Israel I have been a wandering Jew within Judaism. Not in the romantic sense—backpack, prayerbook, and vague...
Two Democracies, One Playbook Last Thursday, the Supreme Court of the United States did something unremarkable by the standards of any healthy...
Real change does not come from the negotiating table. It comes from terms of surrender. Israel is running out of time to remember this. Israel is...
Why a Proposed Billboard That Says “God Curses Those Who Curse the Jews” Is Raising Eyebrows — and Why It Deserves Serious Consideration...
Asymmetrical systems warfare, not slogan warfare By now, Diaspora Jews should be clear-eyed about one fact: overt antisemitism does not survive...