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In this week’s Parshah, Parshat Bo, the Prophet Moses appears on the surface to make a slightly imprecise statement. While informing Pharaoh about the 10th plague, the slaying of the Egyptian firstborns, Moses tells Pharaoh, “Thus saith…

I. Saturday Morning: Breaking Down Fences and Defenses

I logged onto the livestream of Shabbat morning services at B’nai Jeshurun, a 200-year-old, non-affiliated synagogue in New York City. (Side note: I was one small degree of separation…

On the night of January 8, under the cover of a nationwide internet blackout, the Iranian state began a massacre of its own citizens. Within days, roughly one in every 4,500 Iranians was killed. As the toll of the arrested and injured…

It is increasingly dangerous to be a Jewish student in the diaspora. Not only are Jewish students being attacked physically, but there are increasing reports of social and psychological abuse that Jewish students from early elementary grades…

The past year reminded many of us how quickly conditions can change. The war in Israel has ended. New political leadership has taken shape in New York. Some tensions feel less immediate than they did months ago. From the outside, it might…

I recommend reading this article by YVES BOMATI well known french author, writer and specialist of Iran. He already wrote seven books on Iran history, the next one to be published next February, co-written with Davoud Pahlavi.

The strategic…

West Asia is once again reorganising itself along hard security lines. Beneath the rhetoric of neutrality and non-alignment, two distinct defence architectures are emerging, each built on sharply different worldviews. At the heart of one…

(This piece will also be published across various Australian publications)

For political scientists, the “rally ’round the flag” effect is one of the most consistent and widely observed phenomena in democratic politics. In moments of…