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In the UK, we have tragically joined the club of countries in which Jews have been murdered for being Jews. Trades unions, universities, the NHS to name a few are now all hotbeds of hatred against Israel, relying on the oft repeated lie that…

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More importantly, it mistakes power for legitimacy. Law is the difference between power that must be feared and authority that is recognized. Where law is absent, violence substitutes. Where law is arbitrary, legitimacy…

In Arabic, Nakba simply means catastrophe. The term entered political usage after the 1948 war to describe the shock and trauma of its outcome. At the time, it referred to the catastrophic failure of a war launched to eliminate any…

The Moroccan Jewish culture as manifested in Israel today is a lamentable distortion of its authentic Maghrebi essence. What was once a multi-stranded cultural matrix of Amazigh (Berber), Andalusian, and Sephardic threads has been bleached…

For much of modern Jewish history, the relationship between Israel and the Jewish people was understood as self‑evident. Today, that assumption can no longer be taken for granted. The idea that Jews cannot live without Israel—and that…

It’s been over two years since October 7. It’s been over two years since Netanyahu led Israel in a fight against barbaric terrorists. It’s been over two years.

Israel defeated its enemies. And now, it’s time to finish the job.

Trump…

In its latest report, America’s Censored Campuses 2025: Expanding the Web of Control, PEN America describes the current state of higher education in nothing less than apocalyptic terms. To PEN, 2025 was a “year of catastrophe,” marked…

Releasing a Book into the Wild

When I released my new book, AI for Clergy: Harnessing the Power of the Digital Golem for Spiritual Leadership, Community Organization, and Sacred Service, I expected some curiosity, maybe even excitement. What…

Why Pro Israel Advocacy Will Never Work and Why I Will Most Likely Stop

I call it disillusionment. But that word is too soft for what this really is. This is a suffocating feeling of disappointment and grief. A deep exhaustion of the…

Bret Stephens Is Right About; Stop Caring—But Wrong About Not Caring!

Bret Johnson recently suggested that Jews should stop caring about antisemitism. On the level of emotion, he’s right. Outrage is exhausting. It keeps Jews reactive,…