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Imagine yourself in an unknown desert—sand stretching in every direction, no trees, no shade, no clear path forward. The wind shifts and erases your footprints almost as soon as you make them. And in that place—where survival feels…

History rarely hands us clean stories. It hands us people.

Rev. Jesse Jackson was nothing if not a person: charismatic, consequential, imperfect, and—depending on the year you met him, either a walking political lightning rod or an unlikely…

When Australia decided to repatriate women and children from Syrian camps linked to the Islamic State (ISIS), the government presented it as an exercise in national responsibility, carefully managed and security led. But ISIS was no ordinary…

In the months before the 2003 invasion of Iraq, much of the American media moved in unsettling unison. The dominant narrative, asserted by officials, amplified by commentators, and too often transmitted without sufficient scrutiny, was that…

Demographics and Distribution

The Kurdish population constitutes Turkey’s largest ethnic minority, estimated at 15–20% of the national population, or 15–twenty million people. This includes both Kurmanji-speaking Kurds and Zaza-speaking…

“You don’t stop laughing when you grow old; you grow old when you stop laughing.”

– attributed to George Bernard Shaw (1856 – 1950)

There are over 1 million depictions of God on the Internet. I have never seen one of Him smiling. And…

In 1938, three years before the annihilation of Lithuanian Jewry, Marc Chagall painted a crucifixion.

Not a Christian crucifixion. A Jewish one.

The central figure in White Crucifixion wears a tallit. A menorah burns beneath him. Torah…

For the first time in decades, Israel is united not around a leader, not around a party, not around a reform — but around war.

Not war as spectacle. Not war as rhetoric.
War as necessity.

From Likud to Yesh Atid. From Religious Zionism to…

Tucker,

You are in Israel on Ash Wednesday, a very holy day for Christians, a day of repentance. It would be most appropriate for you to ask forgiveness for the harsh and hurtful things you have said about Israel, especially while the nation…

A complex legal dispute unfolding in a US federal court as well as in Swiss jurisdiction over the global titanium trade is beginning to intersect with broader regional dynamics – including Israel’s growing economic alignment with Bahrain…