On 16 March 1988… That day, in northern Iraq, children woke up to the smell of apples and followed that scent straight into death. On that dark day, later known as the Halabja Massacre, Saddam Hussein used chemical weapons against the Kurdish…
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Palestinian Hostility Toward Kurds
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The tragic tale of Saul, king of Israel
Saul, the first king of Israel, was a tall, strapping fellow, altogether a fine figure of a man, kaynenhora’. But he suffered from a few serious psychological ailments which should have ruled him out of the job before it even came to the…
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There is No Ceasefire in the Narrative War
As Israel’s public image has gone into free fall, we’ve now crossed a threshold where it is considered socially and politically acceptable to publicly call for the destruction of Israel and her inhabitants. This mega-shift in public opinion…
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Avraham’s Mourning For Sara
We learn a great deal from the Torah’s description of Abraham’s mourning over his beloved wife, Sara. Our Rabbis tell us that the death of one’s first wife is as traumatic as the destruction of the Beit Hamikdash. The Alshich commented on…
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All hail the Pax Turcica?
Türkiye’s influence is rising. Yet this is not simply Türkiye: it is Erdogan’s Türkiye. That Türkiye has engaged in struggles both domestically and internationally. It considers secularism an enemy; it aspires to become the dominant…
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Surrounded but Unbroken: Israel Redraws the Region
Israel did not step into 2025 seeking a new grand strategy; it was forced into one by the Middle East’s accelerating collapse. A cascade of overlapping crises — Hamas’s October 7th, 2023 massacre, Hezbollah’s northern escalation, Iran’s…
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A Rare Display of Solidarity with the Jewish People
The Federalist Society is a very influential American organization composed of conservative and libertarian lawyers. At its recent National Lawyers Convention, something rare happened in American public life: a large, influential institution took…
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American Decay vs. Israeli Renewal: A Tale of Two Democracies
It was a revealing week on opposite sides of the globe. In the United States, the Epstein email release dominated the news cycle like a chemical spill from a septic tank, confirming yet again that many of our “pillars of society” were…
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Understanding Jewish and Palestinian Equality in Israel — Part IV
Bias, Belonging, and the Social Architecture of Inequality Series Preface Understanding Jewish and Palestinian Equality in Israel explores how questions of law, belonging, justice, and security shape everyday life between the river and the sea….
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I glimpsed the violence facing West Bank Palestinians every day
American Jews who care about Israel must have the courage to counter Jewish terror and the ideology that supports it
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