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The flaw is that we haven’t armed the dissidents. The regime’s soldiers have guns and the civilians don’t. The boots on the ground we need to overthrow the regime could be Iran’s ethnic groups.

I don’t think that Israel and the US…

Few issues manage to simultaneously inflame passions and bore most Israelis quite like the fight over who controls the Western Wall. Last week, just before the attack on Iran, that fight reached a new low — the Knesset passed a preliminary…

• History rarely arranges itself according to the Jewish calendar. Empires rise and fall without consulting our parshiot. Wars are not scheduled around our festivals. The world’s great powers do not wait for our liturgy before making their…

On Saturday night, the Islamic Republic of Iran confirmed what hours of silence had already telegraphed: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic for 37 years, was killed in a targeted strike on his compound,…

My paternal grandmother, Kreindel Graff Rosenberg was born in Ulanow, Poland in 1892. She was the second of eight children, four boys and four girls. Her father, Raphael Graff, was also born in Ulanow. Her mother, Sura Ita Beer Graff was from…

War does not merely test armies. It tests doctrines.

The present conflict involving Iran has reopened a foundational question: when does territorial integrity preserve order, and when does it shield systemic breach?

This is not an argument…

Believing is Seeing

In a rare cultural outing — especially for us Angelenos — my friend Orly and I decided to see a one-man show the other night in Hollywood. We arrived early, meandered along Sunset Boulevard, and grabbed a quick bite…

Gratitude in Jewish nonprofits is often treated as a courtesy. It is more than that. In an era of efficiency and AI, stewardship includes protecting the human relationships that make generosity possible.

I was in New York last week and had…

Year 2026.

A woman works in a public hospital. In a saturated city. Long shifts. Crowded corridors. Screens glowing. Constant alarms.

Everything runs. Everything demands. Everything presses.

She does too.

She follows protocols. Fills in…

I God, in My grace, have summoned you,

And I have grasped you by the hand.

I created you, and appointed you

A covenant people, a light of the nations —

Opening eyes deprived of light,

Rescuing prisoners from confinement,

From the…