For years, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the right-wing coalition he leads have danced around the question of Palestinian statehood with all the sincerity of a bad-faith negotiation. They posture, they stall, they punt the can down the…
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A New Middle East Is Possible—If Israel Steps Up
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Who Is Hitler Today? (The answer might surprise you.)
What do Mamdani, Trump, AOC, Boris Johnson, Tucker Carlson, Ilhan Omar, Bibi, George W., King Henry VIII, Angela Merkel, FDR, Giuliani, Napoleon, Attila the Hun and innumerable others have in common? They have all been compared in print to…
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Why the Fear of Mamdani? Is it Justified?
66% of the New York Jews voted for Andrew Cuomo while 33% voted for Zohran Mamdani. It seems quite clear that many of those who voted for Cuomo voted out of fear of Mamdani, and not out of support for the former governor, who carries…
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MBS, Trump and Netanyahu Take the Stage Toward a New Regional Horizon
MBS, Trump and Netanyahu Take the Stage Toward a New Regional Horizon. A delegation of 1,000 people will accompany Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) on his visit to the United States on Tuesday — including nearly all of his cabinet…
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Those deserving the death penalty for October 7 are dead already
Antisemites call us evil, but for us, ethics should be our middle name In a democracy, the majority decides, but not on everything. For that, we have the High Court of Justice. It can rule against majorities and laws to protect ethical standards…
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An Absent State and Missing Questions
By a strange twist of fate, one of my daughters is called after Hadar Goldin, the captured Israeli soldier whose body was recently returned by Hamas from Gaza after eleven years. In 2005, I was living in Cambridge, UK, commuting to the City of…
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Tehran’s Thirst: Regime’s Final Exam
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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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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