How religion, resentment, and identity politics are eroding the foundations of the state
The Gaza war has transformed Israeli society in ways no previous war has done.
For most of its history, Israel imagined itself as a fortress surrounded…

How religion, resentment, and identity politics are eroding the foundations of the state
The Gaza war has transformed Israeli society in ways no previous war has done.
For most of its history, Israel imagined itself as a fortress surrounded…

October 25, 2025
The Honorable Hakeem Jeffries
2267 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Dear Democrat Leader Jeffries:
Do you hear that rattling sound? That is the sound of former mayor Ed Koch turning uncontrollably in his…

It’s well-nigh impossible to take a step anywhere in Israel without encountering some evidence of ancient life, whether from Biblical or Roman times, as well as before and after those periods. There is even evidence of prehistoric Homo…

Why Israel Must Crush Islamic Republic
Over the past year, Israel, led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has redrawn the Middle East’s map of power. From Syria to Lebanon, Yemen to Iran itself, Israel’s military has landed blow…

Ego and Suicide prevention
See my previous post Saving Abel, the selfless…

Today, Tel Aviv University opens its doors for the first time since 2023 without the dark clouds of war and the massive absence of student reservists casting a shadow over our classrooms. This offers an opportunity to consider Israel’s…

“לא יעשה כן במקומנו לתת הצעירה לפני הבכירה.”
“It is not done so in our place, to give the younger before the elder.” (Genesis 29:26)
“והיה הבן הבכור לשניאה… לא יוכל…

Before Alabama savagely gas-tortured a seventh man to death—Anthony Boyd on October 23rd—in what many legal observers are calling the longest nitrogen-gassing in history, I insisted “someday and somewhere there’ll be a reckoning for…

Allowing Turkey or countries that support the Muslim Brotherhood to be part of the post war arrangement in Gaza is not a harmless step. It is not a humanitarian presence only. It is the foundation of a long term influence inside the most…

Some of our Torah stories would seem unusual by modern standards for how minimal the role of the woman seems to be, but there is!
וַיֹּאמֶר יי לנֹחַ בֹּֽא־אַתָּה וְכׇל־בֵּיתְךָ…