Tens of thousands of years ago, hunter-gatherers in Europe were fashioning stunning figurines and jewelry out of stone, bones, and animal teeth. Not clay, though, it appears. The earliest known utilization of clay was by the Pavlovian culture in…
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The Blogs: Josh Shapiro and the Politics of Jewish Restraint | Steven Abraham
April 9th, 2025 | By Ryan Genova Governor Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania has been making the rounds. Bill Maher. Pod Save America. The Higher Learning podcast. And in each room — some friendlier than others, none of them easy — he…
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The Blogs: Unpacking Israel’s Blue Sparrow Missile Launch | Joel Block
A retired US Top Gun piolt named Matthew Buckley recently explained how the Israeli Air
Force managed to eliminate senior Iranian leaders in Tehran with the Blue Sparrow missile. The Blue Sparrow is a re-entry missile that can be launched from…Continue Reading
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The Blogs: To Be or Not to Be at Stalag X-B | Janet Bond Brill
Shakespeare in a Nazi prison camp and the ten-year-old little girl who kept the album
The final scene from Shakespeare’s Hamlet, staged by French POWs at Stalag X-B in northern Germany, 1944. From the album Souvenir de ma Captivité… Continue Reading
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The Blogs: An Open Letter to Joseph Kent | Matan Schwartz
Joseph,
I read your resignation letter, and I am deeply sorry about your wife Shannon and I thank you for your years of service.
As the Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, you know more about the threat landscape than most…
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The Blogs: Long read: When blasphemy has returned to the West | Dina-Perla Portnaar
For several centuries, Western society believed it had solved one of the most destructive problems in its history, namely the policing of belief. The brutal conflicts that once tore apart Europe eventually produced a fragile but revolutionary…
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The Blogs: Why No One is Calling | Yonah Friedman
“Why is no one calling?”
“Where are all of the public calls for prayer for our ‘brothers and sisters’ in Israel?”
“Why does no one seem to care?”
The list of questions goes on for myself and everyone else I know who is…
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The Blogs: Judging the International Criminal Court | David Hoile
Judges are at the very heart of any judicial system. They interpret and apply the law and control proceedings, rule on evidence and deliver verdicts and sentences. Judges are expected to use their extensive legal training and expertise in…
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The Blogs: A War Without an Endgame Is Not Strength | Ryan Aviv Fagan
There is a difference between using force and having a strategy. Israel and the United States may be very good at the first. Right now they are doing a miserable job of proving they have the second.
Let us get the obvious out of the way. Iran…
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The Blogs: Carnivorous God (Vayikra) | Ben-Tzion Spitz
“The key to faith is what we are willing to sacrifice to obtain it.” -Elder Cloward
A significant portion of the Torah concerns itself with sacrifices, specifically animal sacrifices. There are chapters and chapters that go on about what…
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