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Here we go again. Even after 55 years in Israel, and even though it seems we’ve had more war than peace, I am always surprised when it happens. It seems we have just come out of one war, and another one begins. This weekend, we’re…

If Tehran or one of its proxies strikes US territory—especially the mainland—the war changes in a single hour. Until then, Washington can still indulge the fiction that this is a distant conflict: a regional fire, a manageable crisis…

Two weeks later we still jump at the advance alert warning.
But two weeks later we roll our eyes at our phones and tell them to be quiet.

Two weeks later the memes are still flowing.
But two weeks later they are not all that funny.

Two weeks…

The world knows Anne Frank. Israelis also know another young woman named Hannah Senesh. Anne once wrote that people are “truly good at heart.” Hannah, who parachuted back into 1944-Nazi Europe, “knew many people aren’t good at all and…

In his first two years in office, Paraguayan President Santiago Peña Palacios has lived lavishly. He has logged more than sixty-four official international trips, often flying first class, projecting the image of a confident, globally…

Universities exist not only to transmit knowledge but also to cultivate wisdom—wisdom that informs real-world decisions and shapes principled leadership. Yeshiva University recently had the privilege of hosting President Javier Milei for a…

Around three in the morning, I was staring at my phone. You’d think I was doom-scrolling or waiting for early siren warnings. The general ambient anxiety of living in Israel during wartime tends to make the mind go there. But last night, as…

Your Consciousness Diet, Between the Lion’s Roar and Absolute Sobriety

While Israeli Air Force jets sweep across the skies of Iran, another battle is unfolding at home, quieter but no less decisive, the battle over our consciousness. We are…

When retrospective books are written in the future about the current war in Iran, it will be seen to have been a historic – perhaps revolutionary – watershed in military history. Not because of an air war leading (hopefully) to the…

The hounds search for him on every street,
And the hawks keep watch from the skies.
Is he alive, or is he dead?
Conscious or unconscious?

By faith he is alive,but by sight he is dead.
The sun waits for his shadow
to peer into its presence,
And the…