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The Invention of a Narrative: Palestine, History, and Political Revisionism

Few modern conflicts are surrounded by as much manufactured certainty as the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. Among the most aggressively asserted claims today is that…

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The Sovereign Path Forward with prominent activist Nadia Matar

Held on Yud Tes Kislev, December 9, 2025

It was the summer of 2006, Israeli leaders’ egregious Disengagement from Gaza a year earlier had emboldened Hezbollah to ambush…

A few days ago, Khosrow Alikordi, an Iranian human rights lawyer, was found dead in his office in the city of Mashhad. Khosrow represented political prisoners such as Fatemeh Sepehri, who was sentenced to 17 years in prison because of…

Blaise Metreweli, the new chief of MI6, has issued a warning that should resonate far beyond London: tech giants are inching closer to running the world than elected governments. In her inaugural speech on December 15, 2025, she described a…

New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s pick for a crucial City Hall position resigned on Thursday, shortly after her history of antisemitic posts on X came to light.

Mamdani had announced his appointment of Catherine…

Following the brutal Chanukah massacre at Bondi Beach, a Menorah that had once burned brightly, illuminated throughout the year, was quietly extinguished.

In a Sky News interview, a Jewish woman identified only as Sorella, a close friend of…

The time for mincing words has passed. We must call it what it is: Jew-hatred. The clinical term “Antisemitism” no longer captures the raw, ancient vitriol surging through our streets.

It is a sobering reality that in 2025, Jews live in a…

A Student of Mussar Responds to the pain of Sydney
In love, in grief, and in a tradition of ethical soul-work.

I write not as a rabbi, nor as someone with answers, but as a student of Mussar living in the 21st century, trying to learn how to…

” Let the great world spin for ever…”

 – Locksley Hall, Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1842)

I never knew anyone with a stronger grip than my father, mentally or physically. Both were evident on Hanukkah.

Mentally, he could recite all the…