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For several years before Rosh Hashana, I have listed the year’s best books. If I listed the worst, The Empty Wagon: Zionism’s Journey from Identity Crisis to Identity Theft by Rabbi Yakov Shapiro would likely top it.

A particularly…

The arrival of the CNS Tangshan, a Chinese Type 052D guided-missile destroyer, at South Africa’s Simon’s Town Naval Base in January 2026 signaled a definitive rupture in the post-Cold War maritime security architecture.

As the Tangshan…

Doors match their houses.

The Jewish People are given their first mitzvot in this week’s parashah. Amongst them are very specific instructions about sacrificing a lamb, the Korban Pesach – the Paschal Lamb. This korban will serve as the…

How Israel entered 2026 redefining modern defense

There are moments in history when a country does not merely respond to events but quietly resets the rules of the game. The final days of December 2025 felt like one of those moments for…

When President Donald Trump first proposed the idea of a Board of Peace back in October as part of a 20-step ceasefire plan for Gaza, it was met with a fair amount of skepticism. After all, the region has seen its fair share of initiatives…

The coming confrontation between Iran and the United States is often framed as a binary moment: Washington acts or holds back; Tehran retaliates or absorbs the pressure. This framing is simple, accessible, and largely misleading. If…

Outlandish Rhetoric, Strategic Retreats, and the Future of the Atlantic Alliance

H.R. McMaster, President Trump’s former National Security Adviser, offered perhaps the most succinct interpretive framework for understanding Wednesday’s…

The sun rises and the sun sets and hastens to the place where it rises yet again ……What will be has been; what will be done has been done; there is nothing new under the sun!     (Kohelet 1:5, 1:9)

To the moon He said that it should be…

From the very moment ancient Israel was founded by Avraham, the Jewish people have lived with war, persecution, and exile. The Land of Israel, aka Eretz Israel, has been conquered, ruled, and contested so many times that it is easy to lose…