In the pre-dawn haze of October 7, 2023, the young women of Nahal Oz—Israel’s “eyes on the border”—watched their worst fears unfold. Stationed at the Gaza frontier as part of IDF Unit 414, these all-female surveillance soldiers, known as…
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Sexy Soldiers, Ignored Warnings: How Gender-Bias Fueled Oct. 7th Massacre
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The Difficult Hug
On Parashat Vayishlach and the Courage to Stop Running A few weeks ago my daughter and I were working on Chumash homework. The assignment was uneventful: read several pesukim and then draft a question on what we had read. As we worked through the…
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Hiding In Plain Sight – for traffickers, every child with a phone is a target
Traffickers have turned, online platforms, like social media, into hunting grounds where no family is safe. DailyWire’s stark documentary reveals the darker-than-dark world of digital predators using everyday apps to hunt, groom and traffic…
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Imam Lessons: Moderation, Islam, and Online Debate
What an Imam Taught Me About Keyboard Warriors, Moderation, and the Future of Islam in the West Years ago—long before I had any real understanding of public discourse—I spent far too much time online “debating” strangers. By debating, I…
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.Tel Aviv Beat Wall Street’s S&P 500 — Even in a Year of War and Downgrades
Tel Aviv Beat Wall Street’s S&P 500 — Even in a Year of War and Downgrades. Will the momentum continue under President Trump’s Gaza ceasefire plan and reconstruction initiative? Israel’s Economic Conference Reveals a Market Racing Ahead…
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A Pardon for Benjamin Netanyahu?
In an unprecedented request, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has asked President Isaac Herzog for a pardon. If granted, it would absolve him of criminal charges of fraud, bribery and breach of trust in three separate but related cases….
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A Birthday as a Spiritual Accounting
Most people treat birthdays as moments of celebration, but spiritually they work better as moments of accounting. A birthday marks the passing of another year, and none of us knows how many remain. This reality calls not for self-spotlighting but…
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How the Feed Shapes Young Christians and Their Views on Israel
As I continue the series on how Christians view Israel, and have dealt with various theological systems such as premillennialism, postmillennialism, amillennialism, covenantal, and dispensational views. I then addressed geography, looking at how…
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The Party’s Over
A call for Democrats to abandon Israel leaves me shaken but not shocked. Ben Rhodes, who served as a deputy national security adviser under President Obama, insists that “it is past time for Democrats to stop supporting this Israeli…
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IDF restructures tech divisions
As part of the lessons learned from the war, the Israel Defense Forces has established AI and Spectrum Divisions.
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