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John Henry was a steel-driving man. Willy Loman died the death of a salesman. Today, John, Henry, and Willy are students leaning on ChatGPT: John for his logic homework, Henry for his term paper, and Willy for his final exam. They think…

Most people in Israel may never have heard of Somaliland. It is a name rarely spoken in the region, a country that appears in almost no atlas, no evening broadcast, and no diplomatic communique. Yet it is a place that changed me. It is a…

The Trump White House marked Christmas with a formal message that celebrated “the birth of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ,” extending a week of overtly religious holiday communications from federal agencies and…

A few months ago, the British news website Tortoise Media completed the acquisition of the UK’s oldest Sunday newspaper, The Observer. Until last year, Tortoise Media published the Tortoise Global AI Index, but following the acquisition,…

Yesterday our granddaughter Chayala who resides in Lakewood, called me while I was on my way to the market. She is working on a school project related to the Shoah.

“Wait, Chayala,” I said.
“Let me park my car and then I will talk to…

On Christmas Day 2025, while Americans were unwrapping gifts, the skies over Sokoto State, Nigeria, glowed red. A barrage of US precision-guided munitions slammed into the forest encampments of the “Lakurawa” militant group, a strike…

Donald Trump was re-elected on a clear promise: to stop engaging the United States in conflicts that would benefit neither security nor the American economy. Yet the facts seem to contradict this discourse. Strategic involvement alongside…

This conversation was meant to be a podcast interview.

It was scheduled weeks in advance, planned as a recorded interview about marriage, motherhood, and the recent US release of her book, I Wanted to Be Wonderful. But when Lihi Lapid joined…

Faith, History, and Who Belongs in Israel

The land of Israel, often called the Holy Land, is sacred to Jews, Christians, and Muslims alike. Yet the way each faith relates to this land, historically and theologically, is profoundly different….

“Death should never be the answer in a civilized society.” – Elie Wiesel.

This famous statement is what Elie Wiesel would no doubt reiterate if he were alive today and asked about Israel’s proposed death penalty bill for convicted…