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At this year’s Oscars, several celebrities wore symbolic…

Part 1 of a Series: Hardened Hearts: Power, Ideology, and the Long Road to Freedom

The Middle East today is once again confronting a difficult reality: some conflicts do not end simply because one side is losing.

In many wars, defeat…

On August 6, 1945, at 8:15 a.m., a thirteen-kiloton uranium bomb detonated 600 meters above the Shima Hospital in Hiroshima. One second later, the fireball reached its maximum diameter of 274 meters and the ground temperature beneath it…

Two Indian LPG tankers slipped through the Strait of Hormuz at dawn on Saturday. No warships escorted them. No coalition of the willing cleared their path. A phone call did — between Prime Minister Modi and Iranian President Pezeshkian,…

I have never been a staunch believer.

Nor am I a confirmed atheist. Instead, I have consistently chosen the path of least resistance, i.e. the firm conviction that it is impossible to know whether God exists or not because both profound…

During the time of the Temple, this was an exciting time of year. There was great anticipation as the winter was coming to an end, with Pesach on the horizon.

It was the obligation for all Jews to make their pilgrimage to Jerusalem to offer…

No Reliable Patron

When U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran began on February 28, President Trump told CNN that Gulf states “were going to be very little involved.” Within forty-eight hours, Iran had targeted every member of the Gulf…

We’re beginning to lose the people because we’ve been boxing ourselves in with self-denying, “no doing this, no doing that” slogans and refusing to win for real.

A month ago, the Iranian people were overwhelmingly on our side. Now…

Three weeks ago, Rabbi Yosef Kantor sent me a letter. He is the Chief Rabbi of Thailand and has been running Chabad of Thailand for over three decades.

He is also the Rabbi that guided me to lay tefilin for the first time in my life 20 years…

The theory that Jews control the world, while obviously a conspiracy theory, has shown remarkable staying power.

From The Protocols of the Elders of Zion to modern accusations that Israel manipulates the United States into fighting its wars,…