Our staying out of Iran is what actually feeds the anti-Americanism in Iran. It is what fosters most of the anti-American conspiracy theories – the kind of theories that abound in countries that are affected greatly by American whims. It…
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The Blogs: Splitting Hairs: An Interview with Rabbi Michael Broyde | Michael Feldstein
In 2009, Rabbi Michael Broyde wrote a controversial article in Tradition magazine, in which he discussed the question of whether women’s hair covering was a biblical or rabbinic prohibition. Rabbi Broyde has just published a new book on the…
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The Blogs: Europe’s Bluff Will Collapse Without America | Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez
Europe’s outrage over Greenland is not about principles—it is about panic. When the United States treats the Arctic as a strategic theater—shipping lanes, rare earths, missile defense—European elites answer with sanctimony because…
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The Blogs: From Classrooms to Campuses: Australia Must Choose Consequences | Michael Gencher
Over the last two years, Australia has argued about antisemitism as though it were mainly a contest of language, politics, and competing narratives. The events of Sunday 14 December 2025 in Bondi tore through that illusion.
The terrorist…
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The Blogs: The EU and the Question of Designation | Heath Sloane
For many years, Western governments operated under a reassuring assumption: extremism announces itself through violence, and movements that work through courts, charities, and civic institutions must therefore be part of the democratic…
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The Blogs: The European Dream’s Reckoning: When Economic Might Isn’t Enough? | Vincent James Hooper
“The European dream is dead” may be characteristically blunt, but it captures something real: the dawning recognition in Strasbourg that economic heft alone cannot underwrite geopolitical…
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The Blogs: The Lost Grandfather | Janet Bond Brill
The Lost Grandfather
There are no stories of being bounced on Avraham’s knee.
No memories of his voice, his laugh, the way he smelled of tobacco or sawdust or whatever fathers smelled of in 1930s Warsaw.
No photographs. Not of grandfather…Continue Reading
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The Blogs: The Axis of Autocratic Chaos: How Algeria and Tunisia are Dismantling Sovereignty | Amine Ayoub
The political landscape of North Africa is currently defined by a dark and virulent evolution of authoritarianism. What was once a region characterized by the distinct, often competing interests of a military-dominated Algeria and a fledgling…
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The Blogs: Saudi Arabia, more an enemy than an ally | Jaroslava Halper
Saudi Arabia, or more precisely its de facto ruler the Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud (MBS), has vacillated between making alliances with the more radical Muslim world (Iran, Turkey, Qatar), more moderate Arab countries (e.g., UAE)…
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The Blogs: Jerusalem: the Cost of Christian Unity (Part II) | Alexander A. Winogradsky Frenkel
Between Memory and Resurrection
In Part I, the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity in Jerusam 2026 was followed as a real Jerusalem itinerary: day by day, place by place, service by service – from one ecclesial world to another. The…
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