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Better late than never.

This aphorism applies to Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

As he now admits, just a few days after two Muslim terrorists killed 15 people at a Chanukah celebration at Sydney’s iconic Bondi Beach, his…

These polls should be printed in the comics section

In all the years I’ve been in Israel, I never read anyone who trashed the polls here like I have already done more than a dozen times. Am I mistaken? Is anyone paying attention? Does…

Some individuals have indicated that it is poor timing to advocate against the death penalty in the wake of the Bondi Beach Hanukkah massacre. L’chaim members feel otherwise. On the contrary, there is no more appropriate time than now to…

A year after the fall of the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, has Syria truly become a thriving utopia of peace, prosperity, freedom of expression, and tolerance under a one-hundred-percent Islamic democratic rule? This is the question…

Alleged Threats Against Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi: Separatist Factions, Failed Plots, and the Fight for Iran’s Unity

Recent reports, based on information provided by activists inside Iran who requested their reporting be published, have…

Pictures. Collective. Personal. One image superimposed on another. Tears. One over another. Receding into other pictures.

Bondi Beach, Sydney – a massacre with the lighting of the first candle of Chanuka. The news flash interrupts a radio…

Last week, the New York Times ran a lengthy op-ed by Ben Rhodes titled “This Is the Story of How the Democrats View It on Gaza.” Rhodes is no random pundit. He was Barack Obama’s deputy national security adviser for “strategic…

Our people are hurting and they are scared. Not everyone and not all of the time, but clergy in the groups I facilitate frequently tell me that congregants are looking for reassurance – that spaces are safe, that we are protected, that our…

On a Friday morning, nothing about the subway platform suggested danger. People were late. A train was approaching. The familiar choreography of a European city moved forward without pause, footsteps, screens, the quiet impatience of…

The word corruption has become a political weapon, not against the worst offenders, but against Israel. No leader in the Middle East has been scrutinized, investigated, prosecuted, and publicly dissected like Benjamin Netanyahu. Not because…