The West always likes refugee stories. Not all of them. Not this one. Not the story of a Christian who fled from the East to live and died in the West for believing.
It was 10:30 p.m. when the Assyrian Ashur Sarnaya returned to the apartment he…

The West always likes refugee stories. Not all of them. Not this one. Not the story of a Christian who fled from the East to live and died in the West for believing.
It was 10:30 p.m. when the Assyrian Ashur Sarnaya returned to the apartment he…

Yitzchak Rabin – 30 years since that traumatic day
As if it were yesterday…
The words that follow were written after a visit to Jerusalem, less than a month after his assassination.
Has anything changed?
Lost In Last Respects
Israel,…

A Shabbat-table question about AI turned into something older — what makes creation authentic?
Redemption is fine, but auto-completion is moral peril”
One Friday night, between candlelight and conversation, our Shabbat table looked like a…

From the moment that Abraham’s wife is introduced in Genesis 12:29 and for the next five and a half chapters, her name is always given as Sarai (seventeen times). In Genesis 17:15, Hashem tells Abraham that his wife Sarai’s name should…

They Tried to Hide It.
They told us about a “prayer rally,” a show of solidarity “for the Torah.”
They tried to tell us it was against “the judicial system” and the Attorney General.
Well, they tried.
But when the dust settled, and…

I never expected to find faith in a place built for fear. The wind off the Jordan Valley carried dust, prayer, and contradiction. On one side, a Jordanian woman hung her laundry in a different time zone. On the other, I saw the future of…


Trump hopped onto Air Force I on Tuesday, June 23, 2020, during his first regime traveling to Yuma, Arizona. Once there, his caravan composed of primarily white people journeyed due south in front of reporters and cameras from throughout the…

Two years after the horrible day of Oct. 7, 2023, after Moral Rot and Lawlessness on the campus of Rice University, Rice has finally determined that an act of intimidation has taken place on campus. Who committed that act? Apparently, yours…

‘You Go From Beirut to Tel Aviv’
U.S. Special Envoy to Syria and Lebanon Tom Barrack said the path to stability in Beirut is the beginning of negotiations with Israel. He warned, however, that ‘We don’t have time for this diplomatic cadence. In…