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Thousands of people have been demanding their freedom in the streets, and 12,000 of them have been gunned down in cold blood—while the world continues with business as usual.

Ask yourself why the media is silent.

Ask yourself why human…

I respectfully urge the Governments of the African Union to formally recognize the Republic of Somaliland as an independent and sovereign state within its 1960 borders.

The Republic of Somaliland is in the Horn of Africa, along the southern…

On Dec. 18, 2025, President Trump signed an executive order directing the U.S. Attorney General to expedite the process of reclassifying marijuana from a Schedule I to a Schedule III controlled substance under the Controlled Substances…

Marvin Aaron Chinitz, blog week 1 in Israel Nov 30 – Dec 6 2025
Third December in a row, volunteering in Hadassah Ein Kerem as a gastroenterology professor.

Monday AM, with my working bus pass, and I lectured the GI department at Hadassah,…

Antisemitism endures not because its claims are coherent, but because its contradictions remain endlessly adaptable to the needs of each moment in which they surface.

I recently encountered a description of antisemitism that was unsettling,…

My article “A Torah with 70 Different Faces” has been read by more than a dozen academics including Luca Arcari Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II”, Simeon Chavel
 University of Chicago, Hanoch Ben Pazi Bar-Ilan…

Yesterday’s news that investor Alon Abadi donated a reported $100 million campus to Chabad was met with admiration and gratitude, and rightly so. Any act of generosity toward Jewish life deserves respect. Chabad has done remarkable work…

On October 7, 2023, Hamas invaded Israel to kill and kidnap as many Israelis as it could, and to destroy the country if possible.

Immediately there were worldwide denunciations of Hamas and some sympathy for Israel–and denunciations of…

Any nation that engages in the blatant human rights violation that is capital punishment inherently fails the litmus test for a civilized society. The latest iteration of Israel’s proposed death penalty bill for convicted terrorists is no…

The prospect of a coordinated defense pact involving Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Turkey, and Egypt would represent a profound shift in the security architecture of West Asia and South Asia. While such an alignment is often framed in benign…