I respectfully urge the Government of Sweden to formally recognize the Republic of Somaliland as an independent and sovereign state within its 1960 borders.
The Republic of Somaliland is in the Horn of Africa, along the southern coast of the…
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Rabbi among dozens arrested in faith leaders’ anti-ICE protest in Minnesota
At least one local rabbi was arrested Friday in Minneapolis as hundreds of faith leaders from around the country gathered to protest Immigration and Customs Enforcement activity in the Twin Cities.
Rabbi Emma Kipley-Ogman,…
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The Blogs: Haftar Dynasty: A Rogue Militia Family Is Auctioning Libya to the Highest Bidder | Amine Ayoub
For over a decade, the international community has viewed the Libyan National Army (LNA) led by Khalifa Haftar as a potential, if flawed, bulwark against the tide of Islamist extremism in North Africa. However, as 2026 unfolds, any remaining…
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No Checks. No Balances. No Guardrails.
“Guardrails do not fail all at once. They fail quietly, one by one, until nothing is left to stop the car.” Something fundamental has shifted, and pretending otherwise is part of the problem. This is not about being surprised by Donald Trump….
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The Blogs: NASA, via the TESS spacecraft, tracks 3I/ATLAS toward a quiet farewell? | Rafi Glick
Image: TESS, a NASA space telescope designed to detect exoplanets using the transit method, surveys a wide area of the sky while focusing on nearby, bright stars.
Image credit: NASA / MIT / TESS MissionNASA, via the TESS…
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The Blogs: Gaza and the Return of Responsibility | Heath Sloane
For much of the past three decades, international conflict management has been governed by a comforting assumption: that enough process, inclusion and consensus will eventually substitute for authority. Declarations multiplied, mechanisms…
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The Blogs: The Question History Keeps Asking | Ariana Mizrahi
There is a question that has been asked before in history, after crimes were committed against people who demanded change: Where are they? What was done to them? Today, that same question is being asked by families in Iran.
This question was…
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The Blogs: Operation Baby Steps—Satire | Mort Laitner
Picture of Orthodox Jew Marching with Broom in Jerusalem —Picture Created by Author Using OpenArt From what I read in the Times of Israel, Israel has a problem getting some ultra-Orthodox Haredi Jews to join the IDF and fulfill their…
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The Blogs: The Blood-Soaked Ground of Helmand: A Response to President Trump | Vincent James Hooper
President Trump has claimed that NATO troops in Afghanistan “stayed a little back, a little off the front lines.” He added: “We’ve never needed them. We have never really asked anything of them.” These statements are not merely…
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The Blogs: How Pharaoh resembles President Trump | Richard Diamond
This Week, as Pharaoh Reappears, It’s Worth Naming Trump’s Pathology
This week’s Torah reading reintroduces Pharaoh—not as a cartoon villain, but as a ruler who has become trapped inside his own compulsions. That framing, powerfully…
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