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What would happen after a) Moses sinned by hitting the rock in the desert instead of speaking to it; b) Aaron fashioned a Golden Calf while Moses was on Mount Sinai; c) David sinned with Batsheva by sending her soldier-husband to the front…

The ninth plague, darkness (ḥoshekh), was qualitatively different from all the others:

And the Lord said to Moshe: “Stretch out your hand over the heavens, that there shall be darkness upon the land of Egypt, a darkness one can feel.”…

A wheelchair is a strange thing.  It is a chair that allows a person like me to get around, but it carries so many additional connotations for the people who see it and for those who use it.

As a patient with PSP (Progressive Supranuclear…

In December 2023, together with Cantor Michael J. Zoosman, I published online and in print in Alabama’s best and most historic newspaper, The Montgomery Advertiser, an essay called “Jews must speak out against Alabama’s planned nitrogen…

Countries have no allies anymore—only interests.

Trump, Putin, and the Others: When the EU’s Strategic Compass Points to Nowhere—What If It Were True?

A doctrine born for the wrong war, or how we moved from the rule of Law to rights…

Unlike earlier eras, contemporary hostility toward Jews and Israel is happening simultaneously around the world — in the Middle East, Australia, Europe, North America, South America, Africa, India and online. We are witnessing what is…

Alliances are built on trust. Not sentiment. Not shared slogans. Trust—the expectation that a partner will tell the truth, correct the record when proven wrong, and respect the moral foundations it claims to defend. On that standard,…

This week on The Patriot Perspective, host Gregory Lyakhov and co-host Ofer Adar turned their attention to one of the most ridiculed foreign policy proposals of the Trump presidency: the idea that the United States should seek control over…

It was a moment in time that shaped my life’s trajectory.

In 1976, at 27, I reached a crossroads. After years as a struggling journalist, I wanted to get married, settle down, and have kids. There was no way I could do that, however, on the…

January 19, 2026
Rosh Hodesh Shevat