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Alsace-Lorraine or Elsass-Lothringen?

Imagine this for a moment…

In current official United Nations documents, Nancy, Metz, and Strasbourg would not be described as part of Alsace-Lorraine—their legitimate French designation—but as…

I don’t write political blogs, nor am I fluent in political rhetoric. But when a certain aged kid, who will not be named, asked me a question on the current Iranian situation, I realized it could be really confusing for some people,…

Until the day she died, whenever it snowed, she remembered that winter in Budapest in 1945, when the snow lay thick across the rooftops like eiderdown, deceptively soft. As it fell, she thought of Frau Holle and the old German fairy tale in…

It’s rare to find the streets of a busy city empty. When you do, it means something big is going on. I come from two busy cities, and I’ve experienced this phenomenon in both. Two countries stopped for two extremely different reasons.

On…

Parashah Vaerá — Existential lessons

Revelation does not always bring relief: sometimes it brings collision. Vaerá destroys the childish fantasy that “if God speaks, everything improves”. Here the opposite happens: God reveals…

It has been a brutal stretch. The kind of news cycle that does not just inform, but exhausts. The kind that leaves you doom-scrolling at midnight, wondering whether the world has lost its mind or just finally stopped pretending it ever had…

Prime time news provides the story when it comes to political games the government plays, particularly the manipulative maneuvers Prime Minister Netanyahu has mastered. New appointment of a deputy minister from a party inclined to vote…

There are hours when history feels like a corridor with no doors – only walls, only echo, only the heavy breath of power behind you. In such hours, tyrants want you to believe that the world is made of stone, that the heavens are silent, and…

For decades, regimes barely recognizable as states have taken it upon themselves to decide which nations qualify as legitimate. From collapsing economies to clerical rule, the verdict is always delivered with confidence. Israel, apparently,…