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Every so often when confronted with evil, we return to the words of German pastor Martin Niemöller: “First they came for the Communists, and I did not speak out because I was not a Communist.” In those lines, “they” meant the Nazis….

As modern Jews, we are trained to look at the world through the lens of military strategy, political science, and logic. But the events since October 7, 2023, have defied standard logic so consistently that a purely physical explanation no…

When the Russian flagged liquefied natural gas carrier Arctic Metagaz erupted in flames one hundred and fifty miles off the coast of Sirte, Libya it did more than just threaten an ecological catastrophe for the Pelagie Islands. It signaled…

Hebrew is rich with names for lions. The Talmud points out that there are six names used in the Bible for the king of beasts: ari (or aryeh), kfir, lavi, layish, shahal, and shahatz (Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin 95a). Lavi also appears once…

The title of this essay refers to a fundamental and dramatic shift  in  the American Jewish story. The “golden age of American Judaism” described the 70-year period, covering 1948 to 2018 has now ended.  This era began with the…

Thursday morning power walk after delay due to air raid siren, hoping not to encounter another while walking, charting my route calculating run time to a public shelter if necessary. Working remotely. A siren. Haim working in office, in Ramat…

Close to a thousand people packed London’s St John’s Wood Synagogue this week to hear Noa Argamani speak.

On October 7th 2023, Noa and her boyfriend Avinatan Or were at the Nova music festival in Israel’s western Negev when Hamas…

For more than three decades, the Republic of Somaliland has existed in a diplomatic limbo that defies both legal logic and geopolitical reality. While the international community continues to treat Somaliland as a regional anomaly—an…

Numbers always seemed

Suspect to me.

The enemy has only 

 twenty percent

missiles left.

Great. 

So the one speeding at me

Can only kill a fifth of me?

Which percent will go to Heaven

And which part

other than that part to…

Qur’an 59:23 states: “Allah is He, Whom there is no other god;- Sovereign, Holy One, Source of Peace, the Guardian of Faith, the Preserver of Safety, the Exalted in Might, the Irresistible, the Supreme: Glory to Allah. (Who is) above the…