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Two years ago, soon after I began my time at Yeshivat Har Etzion, I met a fellow student who introduced himself as a resident of Chevron, and was a bit surprised to learn that there was a full-fledged Jewish community there. “Isn’t it…

What was so great about Abraham?

Abraham passed ten tests, including, most notably, the near sacrifice of his son Isaac. Even so, despite these magnificent accomplishments, he might be defined by actions that are not even counted among…

Tucker Carlson’s recent conversation with Megyn Kelly reveals something crucial about our moment: the moral vocabulary of the West has become so diluted, so self-absorbed, that it can no longer tell the difference between genocide and war,…

There’s a reason Israel and its supporters call Hamas a death cult: its flagrant disregard for human life has been on vivid display for decades – and never more so than since October 7, 2023.

This depravity has been demonstrated time and…

Mishal Husain, one of the most nakedly partisan current-affairs presenters in British broadcasting, left the BBC in January after twenty-six years to join Bloomberg, where she now has her own show. This week she was interviewed about herself…

Former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir once expressed her yearning for peace like this: “We can forgive the Arabs for killing our children. We cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill their children.” No one forced Hamas to invade…

No region of North Africa has been more persistally assailed by the corrosive geopolitics of external ideological manipulation than Morocco. If the State of Israel confronted the Iranian axis by way of Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon…

It is perhaps an aphorism that “the more things change the more they remain the same.” However, regarding world opinion towards Jews, it is one that seems applicable at least on the surface.  Following the November 9–10 pogrom of 1938,…

“And G-d said to Abraham: first, I need to verify that you are not a robot! So Abraham did.”

The above verse is not authentic. It’s a fake verse that doesn’t appear in the Torah (shocking, I know!). During the time of Abraham, there…