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Arrested in a Democracy

Thirteen years ago today, I was arrested at the Western Wall. I was 17 years old, standing next to my mom and the women of Women of the Wall. Our “crime”? Wearing a tallit, a Jewish prayer shawl, as women in the…

Congress, Disinformation, and the Cost to U.S. Strategy in Western Sahara

A Reading of the Western Sahara File

Recent efforts by a limited number of voices within the U.S. Congress to reframe the Western Sahara issue through a narrow security…

Or the Ideal Mediator. The Facts: The End of the Myth of Non-Alignment in the Middle East

Oman, the Only Ibadi State, Confronted with a Coercive Regional Order

For a long time, non-alignment was presented as a viable strategic option in the…

About 4,500 years ago, a new people swept through Western Europe. They crossed the Channel and quickly took over Britain, almost completely replacing the local Neolithic farmers who had just erected the massive boulders at Stonehenge. They also…

Almost 300 million years ago, an animal threw up in Thuringia. Now analysis of the fossil ejecta from the Early Permian period identified in the Bromacker formation, Germany shows us what this early animal had for lunch, millions of years before…

Yesterday was my grandmother’s birthday.

Grandma Marie was a legendary cook and a woman with zero tolerance for nonsense. She grew up surrounded by antisemitism and never accepted it for a second. She wouldn’t now either.

So instead of a…

For me, I have always been invested in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and its many dimensions. I’ve always been an advocate for peace and co-existence in the Holy Land and, as a supporter of Israel myself, I have spent plenty of time in…

During a recent press conference, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamine Netanyahu accused the Biden Administration of costing Israeli soldier’s lives due to a “arms embargo” placed on Israel during the war in Gaza.

As Chair of American…

“You need to be ready to fight if you have to – people should fear us in the right way, so that we’re prepared if they come after us,” says Mark Abady, the owner of WeShoot, a gun range in Lakewood, New Jersey. In late October 2023, Continue Reading