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The war currently waged by Israel and the United States against Iran appears, at first glance, to testify to a deep and strategic alliance between the two countries – an almost ‘intimate bond’, as government spokespeople in Jerusalem…

“Remember that a man’s name is to him the sweetest and most important sound in any language.” -Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People

Dale Carnegie, in his bestselling book quoted above, posits the importance of calling…

Slavery did not begin with ships, chains, or markets.
It began with a story.

Long before Africans were enslaved in large numbers, Africa itself had to be reimagined—as backward, primitive, ahistorical, and not yet fully human. That…

I thought being pulled over with an unknowingly suspended license was bad a couple of weeks ago, but this week takes the cake. It has been the craziest week imaginable.

We were hosting eight severely wounded IDF soldiers in New Jersey for one…

The fifth weekly biblical portion in Deuteronomy is Shoftim, “Judges.” The rabbis who were descendants of the ancient Pharisees viewed this portion as supporting the Pharisees’ views, rather than those of the Sadducees. The ancient…

The view from the Middle East is a lot different than what we read on social media or from the Western press.

The talking points in the Western press are that Israel attacked poor innocent Iran causing a conflagration in the Middle East which…

1. Launching a war against Iran was a mistake, at this moment and under these circumstances. Even the assassination of Khamenei, an arch-terrorist who deserves death, was strategically wrong at this stage.

2. Iran was already at a point of…

Have you ever found yourself playing a game on your phone, like Candy Crush or Sudoku, for countless hours over a few days? If so, you would notice when you close your eyes or even go out to the street how your brain starts seeing everything…

Israel has created the rarest condition in Middle Eastern politics: a moment when adversaries recalculate. That moment has a half-life. And someone else is already counting down. Converting it into a diplomatic architecture is not optional….