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While we are still digging out from a snowy Canadian winter,  Tu Bi’Shevat (15 Shevat), The New Year of The Trees and the start of Spring in Israel is coming up February 2nd.  Please join me and my fellow Canadians in supporting Friends…

At a time of rising antisemitism and anti-Israel hatred across our nation, this is a critical moment to support leaders who stand with our community and champion our values. The February 5^th special primary election in New Jersey’s…

The proliferation of geopolitical risk indices over the past decade reflects a growing appetite among investors, policymakers, and corporate strategists for quantifiable measures of political uncertainty. From the Caldara-Iacoviello…

The perpetual existence of empathy as a good in theology and wider thought is hardly novel. Christianity, however, never considered it as the one virtue to rule them all: compassion in the Bible is always linked to truth, repentance, and/or…

For decades, politics was perceived as a legitimate space for debating priorities. Right and left disagreed on economic distribution, state borders, and the character of society – but they did so within an agreed-upon framework and a shared…

When I watched the video of the car ramming into the World Chabad Headquarters early this morning, I was horrified—not only by the act itself, but by how easy it was to carry out.

In today’s antisemitic climate, violence against Jewish…

The shooting spree and mass murder of 15 people on Bondi Beach in Sydney at a Chanukah event on 14 December 2025 did not occur in a vacuum. It was a culmination of more than two years of vilification and demonisation of Jews and Israel, and…

How African Political Systems Limited Power, Enforced Law, and Sustained Order While Europe Fragmented

Series Introduction

History is often taught as if effective governance followed a single European arc—from Roman law to feudalism to…

The war in Gaza has become more than a humanitarian catastrophe and a regional shock. It has also accelerated and exposed a widening strategic rift between Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates—two states whose partnership once anchored…

Words matter. A few years back, the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, known as the Claims Conference, conducted a digital campaign called “#ItStartedWithWords” to put the spotlight on the rhetoric of hatred that…