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Jewish extremists need to pay attention

Whenever the news reports words or actions by some Jews that make Jews look bad in the minds of bystanders, one of our gravest sins has been done. Not by the reporters or the news audiences but by those…

The growing U.S. activity in Venezuela is not a local South American story, nor merely a dispute over oil reserves or the fragile regime of Nicolás Maduro. It is a broad geopolitical move, designed as a signal — to Iran, Russia, China,…

Between open conflicts, diplomatic pressure, and record-breaking industrial performance, Israel experienced in 2025 a year of total war—military, technological, and economic. A year that sheds light on the paradoxes of a security power that is…

The Torah relates that due to the Pharaoh’s decrees against Jewish boys, baby Moses was placed in a basket on the Nile River and was taken in by the Pharaoh’s daughter. It was the Pharaoh’s daughter who eventually raised him and even…

The Art of Completing a Life

The final parashah of Bereshit does not narrate a death.
It reveals an architecture.

Jacob does not simply die — he completes himself. And in that completion, the parashah teaches what it means to live with the…

It’s done: Zohran Mamdani has been sworn in as mayor of New York City. And the setting could hardly have been more exemplary—the self-loathing Jew Bernie Sanders, the bartender-turned-congresswoman Alejandra Ocasio-Cortez, and the…

Jews often feel that they were blessed because they had more Prophets than they had Kings. There were 42 kings and one queen who ruled over Israel (19); and Judah (20); and 3 who ruled over the unified kingdom (Saul, David and Solomon). The…

There are moments in history when languages do not merely survive; they hesitate, bend, fracture, and yet refuse to disappear. They do not triumph in the imperial sense, nor do they retreat into museums. They persist – unevenly, imperfectly,…

The recent reports of Nicolás Maduro’s capture by U.S. forces and the international fallout that followed have sparked a debate that goes far beyond Venezuela. While the episode has immediate domestic implications, it also highlights…

Last night, the United States carried out an extraordinary act of foreign intervention: Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, were captured by U.S. forces and removed from their own country. The world watched in…