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Kidnap the leader, and the rest will follow.

It’s the new way to change regimes, and to create a just world.

Because U.S. action against Venezuela taught the world, that when an intransigent dictator is removed, his replacement is scared…

I grew up understanding that being Jewish was not always something to make visible. My parents were raised in the former Soviet Union, where Jewish life existed mostly in private. Religion was practiced at home, spoken about carefully, and…

Like many, I entered 2026 with trepidation knowing that would mean Zoran Mamdani began his term as mayor of New York City.  I read his inauguration speech and wasn’t shocked or surprised by anything he said.  He is who he is, and he will…

“We are going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition.” With those words on 3 January 2026, President Donald Trump announced that the United States had captured Venezuelan President Nicolás…

For much of U.S. history, African Americans and Ashkenazi (Eastern European) Jewish Americans have occupied a complicated, sometimes intimate, sometimes adversarial relationship. At times, the two communities have stood shoulder to shoulder…

Thirty rabbis gathered in Lakewood this week to confront the gravest threat to Judaism since the invention of the printing press: Artificial Intelligence.

They did not convene to ask whether AI could cure disease, decode ancient manuscripts,…

A friend from out of town recently visited me at the synagogue where I work and commented on the heavy security in and around the building. It is significant, and it struck him immediately. I barely noticed.

I am so used to it by now that the…

When New York City’s new mayor, Zohran Mamdani, signed his first executive order, it was described by supporters as a routine administrative reset. In one sweep, all executive orders issued during the final months of the previous…

These are not days of external attacks or missile fire. They are days of popular rumbling.

The 12 days of June reshaped Iran’s external posture. They exposed its vulnerabilities and punctured the myth of its invincibility.

What we are…

In the wake of the U.S. operation that brought Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro to the United States to face charges, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the mission is also about ending Iran and Hezbollah activity inside…