I was a teenager during the Gulf War. It was the first time I heard air-raid sirens. The sealed room we used then was the equivalent of today’s safe room. I was a little afraid, but I also enjoyed the unexpected break—being at home,…
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Two Rival AI Videos. One Flattened Vision of Freedom.
Last week, two AI-generated videos circulated in Israel and quickly ignited public debate. One was released by Israel’s science minister, Gila Gamliel, and presented as a call to liberate Iranian women. The other, posted as a direct response by…
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The Blogs: The Semites who sheltered Jews during the Detroit terror attack | Arthur Horwitz
In the aftermath of the horrific terror attack against Temple Israel, when Jews in Detroit and across America were dazed, vulnerable and feeling alone, the 135,000-strong Chaldean community in Michigan embraced us. No strings attached. No…
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The Blogs: The Clocks Will Change. How About Life? | Michael Katz
Summer time will officially start in Israel this coming Friday at 2:00 a.m. The clock will move forward to 3:00 a.m. and we will all lose yet another hour.
Image Credit: AI Which is adorable. The country can’t agree on a budget, a…
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The Blogs: Darned His Socks | Barry Lynn
A couple of summers ago, I sat down in my Dad’s office and he asked me:
“Why do you come so often?”
I said: “To visit you.”
He said: “So, I’m not just the guy who sends you money?”
I said: “You’re my Dad!”That was years…
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The Blogs: 1979 Iran: When the Left Helped the Islamists Gain Power | David Meir
Contrary to the persistent modern myth of the “stolen revolution,” the Ayatollah Khomeini’s regime did not steal anything. It gained power through the active and enthusiastic support of the Iranian left — communists, Marxists, and…
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The Blogs: Carrie Prejean-Boller’s theological hit job on Jewish students | David Nekrutman
The headlines are currently dominated by Carrie Prejean-Boller’s loud claims of “religious persecution” following her removal from the Presidential Commission on Religious Liberty. But according to a scathing rebuke from fellow…
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The Blogs: The End of Illusions | Aaron T. Walter
The recent Iranian missile attack on the U.S.-U.K. base at Diego Garcia represents a turning point in the Middle East conflict and necessitates careful strategic consideration. Iran has now shown that it has the intention and capacity to…
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The Blogs: The Folly of Imminence | Ari M. Solomont
Growing up in New England, with a father who loved American history, the Revolutionary War was never just something we learned in school, it was something we lived and revisited constantly. Our family outings often felt like walking through…
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The Blogs: Philosemitically Fourscoring | Gershon Hepner
Abraham Lincoln residentially most philosemiticaly
antisemites poetically shames,
in accordance with the Bible once commissioned by King James,
in which the Hebrew word for “eighty” is translated “fourscore “ vigesemitically,
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