The following piece was join authored by Grant Arthur Gochin and Karmel Melamed. Tehran, November 2025 – The city’s five lifeline dams cling to 11% capacity. In the south, children fill soda bottles from tankers; in the north, black-market…
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Tehran’s Thirst: Regime’s Final Exam
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When Will We Weigh the Needs of History?
When Will We Weigh the Needs of History? My grandparents’ and parents’ values last; They are eternal for generations. Innovation remains; novelty fades, When we witness life’s passing assembly line. What do we see, realize, acknowledge?…
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The Big Lie Returns
How October 7 revived an old reflex—and why Jews must see it clearly to survive it When the world flipped the story of October 7 within days—terrorists became “resistance,” slaughter became “context,” and Jewish grief became a…
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To Live Like We Mean It
In the past week, I published two essays exploring the future of Jewish life. The first, Why Don’t We All Just Go?, asked what would happen if American Jews stopped treating Israel as a hypothetical homeland and finally returned home. That…
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Chayeh Sarah and Coming Home
”CHAYYE SARAH”: Genesis 23:1 to 25:18. The Torah is a book of mysteries. Characters come, characters go, we learn a great deal about a few days in someone’s life and almost nothing about the rest; plot lines are left unfinished, subplots…
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Western Sahara Shows Israel the Way
Morocco just showed the world something the Middle East rarely produces: a conflict-management model that major powers, the UN Security Council, and serious Western capitals can actually accept — and strategically work with. In Western Sahara,…
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Two Worlds, One Tragedy
In the wake of the return of the remains of Meny Godard, a 73-year-old Israeli who was mercilessly slain on October 7th, there is a deep truth that demands to be faced. The truth is that within this one tragedy — the war between Israel…
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Is This Tel Aviv? No It’s Jerusalem’s New Scene!
Something new yet reminiscent of the past is happening in Jerusalem. After years of clubs and bars closing for many reasons, mostly financial, four bold entrepreneurs, Moti Asaraf and Eyal Ashush Owners of HaSchena, Avitan Sela Owner of the…
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Parshas Toldos – And She Went To Receive Instructions
This week’s parsha is Toldos, and we once again encounter the fertility issues of our ancestors. This time, Rivka, after finally conceiving, is having a difficult time with her pregnancy. As a result, she does the normal thing any woman would do…
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‘Answering Antisemitism Hysteria’
The recent New York City mayoral election brought out another wave of what I categorize as “antisemitism hysteria.” In my view, Jews have an unhealthy obsession of searching for — and finding! —antisemitism. This obsession is not healthy…
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