Category: Other

1. Introduction

Modern geopolitics is defined less by steady evolution than by sudden rupture. States that appear stable disintegrate overnight; alliances collapse after decades of endurance; markets, empires, and ideologies alike fracture in…

It is a litmus test for Egypt’s financial governance and a signal to the region and beyond.

A regulatory storm brewing in Cairo is reverberating far beyond Egypt’s borders — unsettling financial corridors from Abu Dhabi to Mumbai and…

On the first anniversary the pogrom of Amsterdam, one can only look back in dismay. Some can hardly believe that Western civilisations, with the Netherlands in particular, can have had such a collective breakdown in sanity. What is perhaps…

A rabbinic midrash on love, memory, and the breath of all living beings

by Rabbi Mikhail Salita

I first wrote this story many years ago—perhaps fifteen or twenty.

At that time, I wasn’t yet a rabbi. I was simply remembering my childhood…

“The struggle is not between good and evil, but between certainty and humility — between those who believe they know what good is, and those who keep searching for it.”

Reading about a vote in a heavily Jewish district in New Jersey…

I’m returning to the Left-Right-Centrist dialectic.

Radical Right

Hard Left

Extremist

Fascist

Terrorist/anarchist/syndicalist

Communist

Maoist

Taoist

Somnambulist.

Sendero Luminoso/Strategist/Propagandist.

Populist.

All of these…

After crossing the Jordan and conquering Jericho and Ai (Joshua 1-8), Joshua continues his march of conquest.  He immediately encounters a group of dusty, well-worn travelers, who inform him that they are from a distant kingdom, Gibeon, who…

It was like a scene from the movie The Wizard of Oz. “Are you a good witch or a bad witch?” Except this time it was personal and immediately put me on alert: I was being asked the equivalent of, “Are you a good Jew or a bad Jew?”

But…

In a bold evolution of deterrence strategy, Israel’s security forces have moved beyond simply defending their skies—they have shifted into offensive supply-chain disruption mode, targeting the logistics backbone of Iran’s unmanned…