Is it so surprising that the US took action against Iran?
Decades in the making
‘When the Judges Ruled, There Was Famine’: Bible
Judges look harder to find procedural objections to policies and actions of which they disapprove.
Eliminating Iran’s Nuclear Sites Means No One Can Use Them Later
Trump's Churchillian Decision:
The Mullahs and Their Friends
Politics makes strange bedfellows. Israel makes stranger ones
Mocking Anti-Israel Protesters: A Critique
Mockery is not merely humor, harsh criticism or even a personal insult. It represents a cynical form of denigration that attempts to render its target devoid of value.
Mocking Anti-Israel Protesters: A Defense
Miss Thunberg, in the eyes of many, carries moral authority, without any need to actually articulate a moral argument. The mistaken assumption of gravitas and moral wisdom is very dangerous and has real-world consequences.
In the Miklat
For buildings like ours, built in the early 1970s, there are no mamad, no individual reinforced safe rooms in each apartment. There is instead a communal bomb shelter in the back of the building on the first floor, a miklat, a place of refuge.
Sterner Days
Calling what we have in our basement a safe room is frankly more than a bit generous, and not nearly large enough for all of the residents even of our small building. But we pile in.
War in Israel: Faith Written in the Heavens
We rely upon emunah to carry us forward, to walk us across the bridge of fear and uncertainty.
Iran Saw What Looked Like Weakness – Then Time Ran Out
The U.S. appeared afraid of escalation. The U.S. seemed to want a deal more than Iran did.
From bomb shelters to Tehran’s skies: Israel’s ancient struggle to survive
Israel’s enemies still believe it can be broken with rockets or rhetoric. They are wrong.
Getting Gazans Wrong: Understanding support for Hamas and 7 Oct. attacks
Policies concerning refugees, foreign aid and ceasefires must be informed by the reality that a large segment of Gaza’s population supports a terror group.
A revolution that targets Jews on American streets
Legacy media is complicit, featuring news stories that impugn Israel and whitewash anti-Jewish attacks by radical leftists and Islamists.
Praying for Miraculous Healing
Others categorically assert that you can’t pray for any healing that goes against nature. Why not?
Hatred from the Left: Raw, Racialized, and Relentless
It is well past time to drop the pretense that antisemitism only comes from those stomping in jackboots.
It’s Not 1937 in Germany
We must recognize that Jewish history rarely sees the exact same persecution twice.
Back When Barack Obama Saw Israel Through the Eyes of a Dad
It is with these vulgarities in mind that the obvious must be stated: The laws of war were fashioned by military strategists who lived in civilized nations, men who believed that even in war there must be rules.
Israel’s brilliant handling of the ‘flotilla’ affair
Through the calm dismantling of a contrived provocation, the Jewish state upheld its dignity while letting its detractors reveal their own absurdity.
This Is NOT a War with ‘Hamas’—It’s a War with Palestine
Why Israel’s war cannot be won until it stops lying about who the enemy really is
The Modern Jewish Prophet Who Predicted France’s Two-State Betrayal
France and Saudi Arabia are about to throw Hamas a lifeline.
Israel Doesn’t Owe You an Explanation
Because Truth Doesn’t Need Permission
Fight Stress – And All Its Negative Outcomes – With Meditation
For maximum benefit, meditate twice a day. Most people find that meditating first thing in the morning before breakfast works best.
The ‘Two-State Solution’ to Kill Jews, Destroy Israel
By advocating a "two-state solution," France, Canada and Britain are essentially authorizing a genocide.
Balancing Devotion and Division
We often fall into unhealthy religious judgmentalism. We don’t possess a reliable thermometer to measure others’ religious sincerity or depth. Yet we often speak loosely, labeling others as less frum or branding entire communities as less religious.
Israel Eliminationism: A single ideology with multiple tentacles
Protesters seek not only a second Holocaust targeting Israel but the elimination from American society of Jews who believe in its right to exist.
Harvard’s Double Standard on Racism
When will Harvard finally acknowledge other racist stains on its record—such as the friendly relations it pursued with Nazi Germany in the 1930s?
Jewish anti-Zionists and murdering Israeli embassy staffers
Let’s examine the close, even affirming, relationship between the Reconstructionist movement and Jewish Voice for Peace extremists
The Cavalry Isn’t Coming: It’s Time for Jews to Save Themselves
When innocent Jews are murdered for the crime of being Jews, where are the mass rallies? Where are the corporate statements?
Israeli Intelligence Missed Gender-Based Violence as a Strategic Tool on October 7
Hamas used gender-based violence as a deliberate strategy intended to cause severe harm to Israeli civilians, undermine Israelis’ sense of social security, and sow terror within Israeli society.
Iran’s New Espionage Playbook: Recruiting Israelis from within
Tehran's low-cost, high-volume approach is not about sophistication but about saturation, and is "disturbingly effective," says the former head of the Mossad's Counter-terrorism Division.