Mystery persists why PM Binyamin Netanyahu did not attend this week’s Sharm el-Sheikh Gaza peace conference after an official invitation was extended personally by Egyptian President Al-Sisi on Monday.
Officially, the PM turned down the…
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The Blogs: Human History: Non-Jews Wiping Out Non-Jews | Avi Schwartz
The record of world history shows that the overwhelming majority of bloodshed has been committed by non-Jews against other non-Jews.
• Ancient world: Egyptians enslaved neighboring Africans; Assyrians and Babylonians wiped out rival…
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American Democracy at the Crossroads: Implications for the Jewish Community
The undoing of the American political experiment is upon us, as we experience the disassembling of the Constitutional order. • We are in the midst of a political revolution, leading to the upending of our civic and legal structure. • We are…
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The Blogs: The ‘Day After’ Letter I Received | Miles Rubin
The past few days have been filled with mixed emotions, leaving some disoriented; I know I am. Yesterday, I received a letter from an Officer that I greatly admire. I felt it was exactly what I needed to hear as someone who served in this war….
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The Blogs: From Reagan to Trump, the return of raw realism | Gilles Touboul
“One only negotiates effectively when speaking from a position of strength.” This maxim, inherited from the Cold War, seems to be gaining relevance today. Diplomacy by Force—the idea that military, economic, or political power is the…
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The Blogs: Hope in the Shadow of Horror: Reflections on the Hostage Release | Ed Gaskin
Hamas did not simply kill; in a grotesquely sadistic manner, they dismembered people, severed heads, set victims on fire, and assaulted women so brutally it broke their bodies. Their rhetoric is not metaphorical or hyperbolic—they have said…
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Paranthropus Boisei Hand Found for First Time, Stuns Researchers
About a million and a half years ago, one of the archaic human species roaming Africa was Paranthropus boisei. They were first discovered by the anthropologist Mary Leakey in 1959, in association with primitive Oldowan-style stone tools. Since…
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The Blogs: It’s Not Over Until Every Hostage Is Home | Alan P. Gross
An Urgent Appeal to Leaders, Negotiators, and Decision-Makers
Every passing day brings with it an unbearable weight of uncertainty for the families of those still held hostage in Gaza. Their anguish is not theirs alone. It is shared by the…
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The Blogs: Understanding the Lubavitcher Rebbe | Yitzchak Blau
Yosef Bronstein, Engaging the Essence: The Torah Philosophy of the Lubavitcher Rebbe (Maggid, 2024), 686 pages.
Writers on the Lubavitcher rebbe could focus on his thought expressed in his published sichot or on his institutional activity…
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The Blogs: Bereshit: We are the Caretakers of the Earth | Yakov Nagen
The Torah recounts primarily the story of the Jewish people. Only a few chapters discuss or address other nations. The exception is in the beginning of the book of Genesis, with the accounts of Creation. These chapters are unique in that God…
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