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Lithuania’s commemoration of Lithuanian rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust does not stand alone. It performs a function. It directs attention toward the few who saved Jews and away from the much larger fact that Lithuania was one of the…

And it came to pass in the days of Donald Trump – the Donald Trump who reigned from Florida to Alaska over fifty states – that in those days when President Trump sat in the White House which was in Washington, the capital. In the fifth…

Micronesia, saving sharks,

is establishing sea parks.

It’s not their jaws grotesque with grins

that endangers sharks. Their fins

provoke the jihad against jaws

by predatory pescavores.

Mankind now threatens all our planet,

though for…

From Lab to Life: Spare Parts for People

By Shlomo Maital

Last Sunday, March 8, was International Women’s Day – a day when we celebrate the achievements of amazing women and their…

There is an old strategic maxim: never give your enemy a reason to unite his friends. Iran has spent the last two weeks doing exactly that, and the consequences are now plain for anyone paying attention to the UN Security Council chamber in…

The global energy system remains deeply dependent on maritime trade routes, particularly those connected to the Persian Gulf, one of the world’s most important energy hubs. Every day, millions of barrels of oil and petroleum products leave…

In Uncertain Times, Familiar Accusations Often Return

The Pattern We Didn’t Want to See

For many Jews, the war with Iran did not arrive as a shock. It felt less like a new conflict and more like the continuation of a long, troubling pattern…

GDANSK – The political and economic transformation of Poland after the collapse of communism in the late twentieth century required major reforms across nearly every sector of society, including public health and medicine. Two of the most…

The Wrong Side of History

It is difficult to understand how anyone can sincerely claim to stand on the right side of history while supporting the so called Palestinian cause. The claim is repeated endlessly in activist circles, on university…

It is interesting to note that the word, ויקהל, appears twice in close juxtaposition to one another.

The word is used with the pronunciation of “Vayikahel,” that they were gathered on Aharon, to demand that he build the Golden…