Pakistan has entered a dangerous new phase. With Field Marshal Asim Munir now assuming the unprecedented dual role of Chief of Army Staff and Chief of Defence Forces, the country has effectively placed all military power—army, air force and…
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Pakistan’s new power structure is a threat Israel can’t ignore
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Jacob Without Illusions
Jacob Without Illusions: An Existential Reading of the Torah Jacob is often presented as a righteous man whose morally ambiguous actions are absorbed into “the divine plan”. In a literal reading, everything he does — deception, flight,…
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In Oslo, Human Rights Meets Its Own “Scream”
Life imitated art last week in Oslo—and not in a good way. At a panel on human rights and humanitarian groups, two iconic Norwegian images materialized before me: the iridescent Northern Lights and the raw angst of Edvard Munch’s The Scream….
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Fighting the Virus Without, Fixing the Void Within
The hatred we face has shed the skin of race theory and donned the cloak of “social justice,” confusing a generation of young Jews whose connection to their people has grown hollow. To survive this latest strain, we must do more than defend our…
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‘Startup Nation’ or ‘Exit Nation’?
A tip of the kippah to the architects of Zionism — those stubborn visionaries who believed a battered people could build a modern state out of desert, memory, and sheer human will. They dreamed of a country that would gather Jews from around…
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Yakov’s Doubts
Yakov Avinu’s dream of the ladder with angels going up and down, was meant to give him assurances that Hashem would always be with him. He awoke from this dream with great joy and optimism. Nevertheless, his humility made him doubt that he…
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The Algorithmic Childhood: Why We Cannot Leave Our Kids to Social Media Alone
Childhood is disappearing in plain sight. Not because of war or poverty, but because we are allowing algorithm-driven platforms to shape our children’s emotional, social, and psychological development with almost no guardrails. Parents would…
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Pain Forged Me. Choice Made Me Sovereign.
Embed from Getty Images I didn’t rise from the ashes. I walked out of the fire intact. Pain taught me what strength never could: what remains when everything unnecessary burns. It didn’t whisper; it carved — dismantling me with an…
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The Argument No One Wants to Touch About Gaza and Hamas
Some narratives survive only because no one dares challenge them. They drift, untested, through headlines and humanitarian slogans, comforting the world with a fiction it desperately wants to believe. But illusions can only stretch so far before…
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Understanding Jewish and Palestinian Equality in Israel – Part XVII
Education, Narrative Transformation, and Building a Shared Civic Identity Teaching Truth, Forming Character, and Preparing a Future Together Series Preface Understanding Jewish and Palestinian Equality in Israel examines how law, belonging,…
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