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Qatar’s Shadow War: Funding Brotherhood Terror and Western Siege – By Frederic Eger

Doha doesn’t just shelter Hamas bosses in plush villas—it’s bankrolled the terror outfit for two decades as political patron, cash cow, and…

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Writers rely on the intelligence of their audiences. We assume a certain baseline literacy, vocabulary, comprehension, and reasoning ability. We try not to insult readers by asking them to accept something that…

Israel shakes hands with Somaliland. Middle Eastern capitals shake their heads.

Recognition by the Unrecognized, Outrage from the Non-Recognizers

In a move that could double as a diplomatic stand-up routine, Israel — a state that many of…

Series Orientation

This column is part of the Covenant of Care series, written in the aftermath of the catastrophic fracture of October 7th and the ongoing national fracture that followed. In the months since the attack, Jewish communities…

When President Trump meets Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the sixth time this year on December 29, the two leaders should ask themselves a question they thought was already settled: Who won the Hamas-Israel war? 

When he…

The Century of Blood – Europe’s 20th-Century Atrocities Against Jews

(As published in Part 1 of this series, Europe’s long history of negation—from papal decrees of perpetual servitude to royal expulsions and ecclesiastical…

The furor started with a statement by America’s vice president.

“Do I hope that eventually she is somehow moved by what I was moved by in church?” J.D. Vance responded to a question regarding his Hindu wife. “Yeah,” the VP—a…

Instead of reacting to massive wildfires, a new system developed by the Israeli company FireDome, a beneficiary of support from the Israel Innovation Authority’s Startup Fund, aims to stop fires while they are still small. FireDome’s…

From Lab to Life: High School Reject to…Nobel? Yifat Merbl

The Times of Israel has just reported that Weizmann Institute scientist Prof. Yifat Merbl has been…

Zevachim 112 — “The Firstborn Opportunity Cost”

Our Gemara on Amud Beis discusses that prior to the inauguration of the Mishkan, sacrificial service was performed by the firstborn. They lost this privilege due to the sin of the Golden…