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Wars are not won from mixed signals. Yet, in 2024, the United States held weapons from a close ally while rockets were actively falling. In the Middle East, signals matter just as force does. Allies look for reassurance, and enemies look for…

To Mr. West,

We saw that ad in which you explained your head injury and your battle with mental illness and we saw the apology for your Jew-hatred. 

We Jews have a concept called Teshuvah. It means atonement but it also means return. To…

After 844 days, Israel closes a wound – without forgetting it

It has been a long time coming. But it is finally here.

The body of the last Israeli hostage from October 7 – Ran Gvili, Police Master Sgt., has returned home. Returned to…

A  Living Tribute to Dr. Lena Allen Shore and Dr. Viktor Frankl  on International Holocaust Remembrance Day

Dr. Lena Allen Shore and Dr. Viktor Frankl,  both Holocaust survivors, shared an abiding friendship through exchanges and meetings…

“Where are the songs of spring?… Think not of them, thou hast thy music too.”

To Autumn, John Keats (1820)

On a global, national and personal level, the spring of 1967 was fecund with memories for me. Israel won the Six-Day War; Vietnam…

Today is not January 27th, 2026. at least not in Israel. It is finally October 8th, 2023.

The clocks have stopped. The last hostage is home.

There is a frayed yellow ribbon whose writing has…

The crisis of violence and crime in Arab society is not only an ongoing failure of the state and may become one of the decisive factors in the upcoming election. For the first time in years, the question is not only how to fight crime, but…

I started this in Substack in November 2025 to provide a counter-narrative to all the anti-Israel nonsense out there.  Every week I will offer up more ways that Israel contributes to the world in outsized ways.  I might run out of items in…

Bind These Words as Totafot… and What We Actually End Up Binding

There is a sentence in the Torah that has proven almost irresistibly generative—one of those lines that refuses to stay put on the page. “Bind these words as a sign upon…

Today is International Holocaust Memorial Day.

Yes, the date was established by a United Nations that has often proven hostile to Israel, and yes, the irony is thick enough to cut with a butter knife. But that is trivia. History does not…