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Nobody is pulling the wool over President Trump’s eyes

To paraphrase Shakespeare, “will he or won’t he, that is the question.” Will President Trump order the U.S. military to attack Iran? All over the United States; indeed all over…

I joined the National Association of Social Workers soon after receiving my MSW in the early 1980s. It was an organization whose values I believed in: advocacy for the vulnerable, intolerance of hate, and a willingness to examine the…

In January 2026, Bloomberg published a year-long investigation into a transnational corporate and property network whose ultimate beneficial ownership, according to sources and a Western intelligence assessment cited in the report, leads to…

As governments continue to debate the risks of artificial intelligence — from existential threats to job disruption and child safety — India is attempting to reframe the global conversation. Rather than centering primarily on long‑term…

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

I have been teaching the seminar “Negotiating Middle East Peace,” which addresses successful and failed peace processes in the Arab Israeli conflict, in different settings, for the last 23 years. For…

Eli Cohen has been a household name in Israel for decades. Sixty one years after his execution in Damascus, he is remembered as probably the greatest spy who ever worked for the Mossad, Israel’s external intelligence agency.

Cohen arrived…

The timing could hardly be more exquisite in its irony. As Keir Starmer stood in Beijing’s Great Hall of the People this week, pledging a “long-term, consistent and comprehensive strategic partnership” with Xi Jinping, two voices from…

The New Age of Holocaust Deniers Are in Our Government

Mickey Zohar is the face of a new age of Holocaust deniers. October 7th was a massacre, period, exclamation point! It was a new Holocaust. Of course, it was not on a scale of the Shoah…

Does suppressing an emotion mean that we aren’t interested in it at all?

We hear of Tzaddikim who could not contain their love toward Hashem, and even publicly acted with great passion. So too are there many who would not display such…