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For Jews who don’t quite believe the old story, can’t escape its shape, and feel racked between Israel’s fear and Israel’s guilt.

There’s an Israeli word that explains more than it should: freier.

Lo tihye freier—“don’t be a…

On January 3rd, the United States military landed in Caracas, Venezuela, and abducted President Nicolas Maduro and his wife. Maduro, his wife, son, and three others have been indicted on four counts: “ narco-terrorism conspiracy, cocaine…

The pattern is no longer subtle. Within weeks of returning to office, Donald Trump had revived territorial ambitions that would once have been dismissed as erratic provocations: renewed pressure over Greenland, threats surrounding the Panama…

Fundamentally, for Israel, alliances have never been about manners. They have been about maps. While diplomats perform virtue and analysts chase applause, Israel has always asked a colder question: where is the pressure point? In today’s…

There is a reason we refer to the Five Books of the Torah as Torat Moshe. Moses’ life and his choices become a paradigm, not only for leadership, but for what it means to be human in the face of oppression. And, just as importantly, the…

The departure of Ambassador Elizabeth Moore Aubin from Algiers on January 5, 2026, was not merely a routine diplomatic rotation; it was a deliberate closing of the books on the policy of “balanced management” in the Maghreb. As the Trump…

As 2026 begins, Iran stands on the edge of a profound transformation.

Across the country—from the historic corridors of Tehran’s Grand Bazaar to distant cities, towns, and villages far from the capital—Iranians are making a choice that…

As we marked the turning of the calendar from 2025 to 2026, we thought it would be both an interesting, and worthwhile, exercise to ask both our elders and our staff what their hopes, goals, and intentions were for the coming year. In fact,…

Ukraine as the Decisive Test of European Strategic Sovereignty

A war that forces a choice

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte keeps repeating that Europe must prepare for a high-intensity war. Several European leaders are now saying the same…

Slavery did not vanish when societies learned to call themselves democratic. It learned how to hide. It learned new vocabularies, new moral alibis, new procedural forms. What once stood naked – juridical, violent, named – now circulates…