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We are at critical point in world history when International Holocaust Remembrance Day (January 27, 2026) coincides with an unprecedented rise in international anti-semitic hate crimes, anti-Israel, pro-terrorist and neo-fascist…

(Reflections on the Haftorah for Beshalach)

(Judges 4:4 – 5:31) 

Decisive women came to the rescue;

Deborah led Barack to battle with few,

To free the nation from fear and oppression;

Yael stopped the tyrant from future aggression.

The…

It remains to be seen whether the Western leaders who found their voices in Davos will now raise them to insist on implementation of a comprehensive plan to end the occupation of the entire OPT and not just “the beautiful piece of…

Georgetown’s role in American espionage history is not anecdotal; it is evidentiary. The neighborhood’s significance emerges most clearly when specific counterintelligence cases are examined over time. Again and again, the same pattern…

Part III: Exploring the Art World, Searching for Familiarity, Finding Muriel Franceschetti

Before the lockdown, within my first two months in Paris, I met two Americans who left a lasting impression on me.

The first was a young woman from…

As Israel’s Knesset advances a bill mandating death sentences for those convicted of killing Israelis with “racist” motives and “with the aim of harming the State of Israel and the revival of the Jewish people in its land,” I find…

It is January 2026, and every assumption, belief and expectation concerning the state of our democracy, the status of Jews, and the future of Israel that I had held appears to have come undone. In some measure, none of what I am experiencing…

The Palestinian submission for the Oscar foreign film award, Palestine 36, had strong momentum from the usual anti-Israel leftists: Mark Ruffalo, Diego Luna, Susan Sarandon, Riz Ahmed, Ava Duverney, Mira Nair, and Ramy Youssef and a raft of…

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is unyielding in his refusal to create a state commission of inquiry to investigate Hamas’ one-day invasion of southern Israel on October 7, 2023, the worst military and intelligence failure in Israel’s…

The numbers are staggering. Forty-three thousand dead. Ten thousand blinded. Three hundred fifty thousand wounded. Tens of thousands of men, women, and children crushed under bullets, boots, and blunt instruments. Executed. Tortured. Burned….