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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…

In this episode we go east to Isfahan to find redemption.

The Eternal Jew’s Tale
Messiah Tractates, a Montage
Abu Isa Fragments

In Isfahan during Marwan’s reign (tho which Marwan we don’t know), up rose *Abu Isa*, a Jew who was born as…

Why Animal Cruelty Stays With Me

Animal cruelty bothers me more than I can explain. It isn’t just something I read about and shake my head over. It stays with me. I think about it when I’m driving, when I’m trying to sleep, when I see…

Sometimes we quietly wonder whether life is fair. Others seem to glide from one simchah to the next, while our own milestones arrive tangled in stress. A wedding overshadowed by tragedy. A birthday marked by conflict. A promotion paired with…

Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch writes that the methodology for divorce must mirror that for marriage. Just as a man must give his wife an object and take her into his home, he must also be the one to formally sever the relationship. This forms…

This is not an Israeli operation with American support; it is a coordinated U.S.–Israeli campaign designed as a joint strategic intervention from the outset. What began as calibrated pressure has now evolved into sustained combat operations…

The dust from the recent decapitation strikes in Tehran has yet to settle, but the most devastating blow to the Islamic Republic is not physical; it is constitutional. Conventional wisdom in Washington dictates that authoritarian regimes always…