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There are cities with reinforced concrete and government-issued instructions laminated on the wall.

And then there is Jerusalem.

Here, when the siren goes off, you descend into a 1,500-year-old Byzantine well beneath the Old City and hope the…

The final-scene addiction

Modern power keeps trying to look like a final scene: a villain, a righteous strike, a body, a clean hinge in history. The crowd exhales, credits roll. That is the emotional offer behind the language of “Devil,”…

The Day After the Darkness

What if the day truly comes when Ali Khamenei is no longer leading Iran’s oppressive regime. What if the system that has exported terror, funded proxies across the Middle East, and openly called for the…

It’s Purim, the funniest holiday of the Jewish year. On the other hand, the Shabbat before it is known as Shabbat Zachor, in which we must remember what Amalek did to us – the Amalekite people cowardly wounded Am Israel when our…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the Knesset during his visit to Israel on February 26, 2026. One particular phrase from his speech was edited and widely circulated on social media – “Israel is Fatherland, and India is…

On Monday night we will celebrate Purim, the story of the brave Queen Esther and her bravery which saved the Jews of Persia from destruction. When she reveals her Jewish identity to the King and accuses Haman, the evil tyrant, she uses words…

The United States and Israel carried out one of the most consequential operations in recent Middle Eastern history: the elimination of Iran’s Supreme Leader along with several senior figures of the regime’s military and security…

For forty-seven years, the Islamic Republic presented itself as immovable — insulated by ideology, protected by security forces, sustained by factional theatrics marketed abroad as political pluralism. But what stood in Iran was never…

When I convinced Mallory that I needed to spend a summer in Germany to improve my German, the better to read German philosophers, her mother wasn’t thrilled, but her grandmother invited her into her apartment for tea and spoke to her in…

Goodbye Khamenei, it’s hard to die,
With all the F-35s flying in the sky.
We’ve known each other since 1979,
When the radical Islamic Republic crossed the line.
You built your power on hate and fear,
A regime of terror year after year.
From the…