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Jerusalem does not do errands politely.

You don’t step out for one thing and come back with one thing. You step out and the city hands you a situation.

Today’s situation arrives in sheets of rain and a clap of thunder so loud it feels…

We are taught to believe that change comes from governments, politicians, money, and major institutions. But history keeps proving the opposite: the world shifts because a few people, often unseen and unheard, choose to do what is right when…

The world often speaks about Judaism, Christianity, and Islam as if they were interchangeable, three “Abrahamic religions” sharing the same moral core. While they indeed share roots, scriptures, and historical figures, their theology,…

In 2025, 314 murders were committed in Israel; of these, 255 were of Palestinian citizens (= “Israeli Arabs”).  These numbers are slightly higher than those for 2023 and 2024.  So far in 2026 the average is one per day.  The daily…

The militias associated with the Syrian government are conducting attacks on the Kurdish districts of Sheikh Maqsood, Ashrafiyah, and Beni Zeyd in Aleppo. The violence in Aleppo is the most severe since Syria’s Islamist authorities assumed…

Here’s something you’ll never see anywhere else in the world outside Israel: boys and men walking around bareheaded, but with their tzitzis (ritual fringes) hanging out from their shirt. Tzitzis, yes; kippah, no?

This isn’t some rare…

JEWISH MOMENTS IN THE LAND OF ISRAEL

1291.
Transformation of the Cave of the Patriarchs During the Mamluk Era:
Architecture, Exclusion, and Religious Policy (1260-1400)

Between 1260 and 1400, the Mamluks transformed Hebron’s Cave of the…

Introducing the Gen Z–era white nationalists: the groypers. This essay does not aim to make a partisan political argument, but to use satire as a tool for moral clarity in a moment that rewards confusion. Satire is particularly appropriate…

On September 10, 2025, Charlie Kirk was brutally shot and killed by an extremist during his event at Utah Valley University. He was targeted because he went to campuses and spoke openly, often sharing opinions that challenged others and…

The first book I finished in 2026 was Jonathan Eig’s biography of Martin Luther King Jr. I didn’t expect how deeply it would move me.

Eig refuses to flatten King into a symbol or slogan. He shows King’s greatness and his shortcomings,…