Ki Tissa sits like an island inside the Tabernacle narrative that defines the end of the Book of Exodus. Before it, Torah teaches the building of the Mishkan. After it, Torah returns again to the Mishkan. And there, in the middle, we are…
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The Blogs: War in the Gulf: Strategic Dynamics of the Strait of Hormuz | William Keenan
The Strait of Hormuz does not need to be formally closed to be strategically decisive. It is enough that it becomes dangerous.
At its narrowest point, the strait is roughly twenty-one miles wide, with two shipping lanes only two miles across…
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The Blogs: AIR POWER AND A STRONG U.S.-ISRAEL ALLIANCE IS DEFEATING IRAN’S REGIME | Carrie Hart
AIR POWER AND A STRONG U.S.-ISRAEL ALLIANCE IS DEFEATING IRAN’S REGIME FORCES
As Israelis have been celebrating Purim, the current war with the Iranian regime is reminding many citizens of the history of the Jewish People from the time of…
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The Blogs: The Other Side: War, Chaos, and Collateral Damage | Anton Koslov
Two days ago, I spoke with an American-Israeli tech entrepreneur about the US-Israeli strikes on Iran and the deaths of over a hundred and sixty girls and staff at the Shajareh Tayyebeh primary school in Minab. My interlocutor dismissed those…
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The Blogs: Canadian Liberal Media Lies About Iran “Regime Change” | Monique Dietvorst
Just because everything has to be twisted to attack Donald Trump.
Iran’s Uprising Is Not a “Regime Change” Script
When unrest erupts in Iran, some commentators in Canada immediately reach for a familiar phrase: “regime…
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The Blogs: Reforged: Netanyahu’s Political Resurrection | Jonathan Javor
In the immediate aftermath of October 7th, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu looked politically finished and rightly so. Hamas’s brutal assault shattered Israelis. Protests swelled. Polls plummeted. Members of his own party distanced…
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The Blogs: Did Israel push the US into war, or did both decide and agree to attack Iran? | Yoseph Janowski
Here’s another question. Did Israel convince Qatar and other Arab states to be upset and issue statements against Iran, and to now consider joining forces with the US and Israel, and fight Iran?
Who convinced whom?
Interestingly as I’m…
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The Blogs: Israel Didn’t Drag America Into War. Iran Did. | Jimmy Bitton
The claim that Israel somehow forced the United States into a war with Iran is not new. It is simply the modern version of one of the oldest conspiracies in political history: the idea that Jews secretly control world events.
Strip away…
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The Blogs: Red alerts and clown noses: Purim under fire | Alan Edelstein
It has been quite a Shushan Purim in Jerusalem.
We were awaken to a tzeva adom (a red alert) at around 6:00 a.m. Nothing like running half asleep to the shelter down the street to get a morning off to a quick start. No coffee needed. After…
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Pastor who embraced Farrakhan wins Texas Dem primary, as Nazi-gun enthusiast advances to GOP runoff
The Rev. Frederick Haynes III, pastor to Rep. Jasmine Crockett who has praised Louis Farrakhan and whose progressive sermons have included denunciations of Israel, easily won the Democratic primary to replace his…
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