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Sam Colt Made People Equal. AI Did It Again. We have all heard the famous saying: God created men, but Sam Colt made them equal. God created men, but...
Today I woke up to the sad news of the passing of Lindsey Graham. I did not want to believe it, so I checked a few of my news apps, and soon grasped...
As I walked through the small park beside Independence Hall in Philadelphia, in the final days before the city marked America’s 250th anniversary,...
President Trump recently stated on Truth Social that he has already directed the U.S. military “to fire one thousand missiles” and sustain...
I cannot sleep the night before my second shift. I throw up around midnight. Nerves, and too much vodka. Why does it fill me with horror to go back?...
This week is Rosh Chodesh Menachem Av. In several weeks, we will be observing Tisha B’Av – a sad and solemn day of fasting and mourning to...
Recognition Is Only the Beginning Somaliland has reached a historic moment in its long search for international recognition. Israel’s recognition...
Lindsey Graham died Saturday night the way he lived: mid-flight between crises that mattered to him. He had just returned from Kyiv, where he sat with...
A Farewell in Australia to Filmmaker Hugh Kitson, Who Devoted His Life to Telling the Truth of History & Israel’s Rights to the Land Under...
Russia has found another way to challenge Israel, and this time the battlefield is not military, diplomatic, or economic. It is archaeological. On...
Benjamin Stora, French historian commissioned by President Emmanuel Macron to write an official report on the memory of colonization and the Algerian...
The latest Democratic primaries in New York did more than produce new nominees. They raised a larger question: Is the political coalition that helped...
During the reign of Jeroboam II (not to be confused with Jeroboam I, who had a flagon for holding wine named after him), there lived a man named Amos,...
Six years ago I wrote a blog for The Times of Israel entitled “Why Israel is getting clobbered in the foreign press....
Veni, vidi… and did I understand? For 12 days, the world was mesmerized by the images. Missiles streaking across the sky. Fighter jets flying...
South Africa built a legal standard at The Hague. It now applies at the Limpopo. Mqondisi Moyo’s statement of July 12 needs no help from me, and it...
“Everything depends on how we live in our land and how we behave here. Our brethren in the Diaspora want to see here what is missing there in the...
This past week marked the birth of Artemisia Gentileschi, born in Rome in July 1593, one of the great painters of the Baroque and one of art...
Every generation believes it is living through unprecedented change. Artificial intelligence is transforming how quickly we can gather information,...
Between Har Hamor and Rabbi Meir Kahane, a conception is taking shape that turns isolation from a value imposed from without into an ideological goal...
After the constriction of Tammuz, the Jewish calendar descends into what appears to be its darkest point. The walls have been breached. The siege has...
What the Book of Ruth reveals about love, loyalty, and the hidden architecture of the soul Here is the paradox that has followed me through years of...
The comparison between Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump is usually made at the level of temperament and rhetoric. Both attack the press, denounce...
The news of Senator Lindsey Graham’s sudden death came just as he had returned from his tenth wartime visit to Kyiv — only on Friday he was...
Israel faces one of the most difficult periods in its history. Militarily, it remains strong, but diplomatically, morally, economically, and...
US Representative Ro Khanna (D-CA) made a visit to Israel this past week for the express purpose, as he termed it, of seeing what the Palestinians in...
As the fragile ceasefire between the United States and Iran unravels into a renewed cycle of maritime aggression and retaliatory strikes, Israel...
I expected fear, but got food – and a lot of it. Well, my dears, I can reassure you that war or no war, Hezbollah, Hamas or Democrats —Israelis...
We must be part of the mission to preserve American democracy, so we must stay Democrats and keep our Party Pro Israel Jewish Democrats must be seen...
This week, we will usher in the month of Av, and with it, the 9 days – including the Ashkenazi custom not to eat meat.* This will lead to a flurry...
The current push to implement the death penalty for terrorists in Israel is often framed by its proponents—such as Moshe Fuzaylov of the Misgav...
We often speak of disinformation as a creature of the internet, but it has for centuries been a potent weapon of antisemites. Anti-Jewish libels have...
The ivory towers of Israeli academia are not merely facing a legislative adjustment; they are under siege. As our government pushes forward with...
Honestly, Does Israel Have a Future? Before October 7, 2023, Israel was widely regarded as one of the strongest and most dynamic advanced economies in...
When 95% of high-tech employees use AI regularly and 1% of construction firms do, the question is not whether AI raises productivity — but whose?...
São Paulo – Prada, a global icon of luxury, recently announced Palestinian singer Marwan Abdelhamid as its new global ambassador. The decision has...
Thirteen years ago, when Pope Benedict XVI announced that he would leave the See of Rome, I wrote an article occasioned by another anniversary that,...
Throughout history, those who contributed to the collapse of destructive ideologies have earned an enduring place in the historical record. On the...
A Clock Does Not Only Tell Time A thin curtain of fog draped itself across Prague. The streets were nearly empty. I had flown in that evening to begin...
The request of the tribes of Reuven, Gad, and half of Menashe, to settle on the other side of the Jordan, was not taken well by Moshe Rabbeinu....
Within several days, four stories moved through Washington, Muscat, New York, and the occupied West Bank. Each arrived under its own headline....
Israel welcomes debate. Israelis argue with each other every day. They criticize their leaders. They question Israeli policies. That’s what...
For decades, the sentence you heard across the Arab and Muslim world was: we have no quarrel with Jews; our quarrel is with Zionists. Israel was the...
The unexpected normalization of diplomatic relations between Algeria and Mali in July 2026 marks a desperate pivot rather than a triumph of...
Less than one week ago, as part of a large contingent of Jewish leaders and supporters across the country, I was blessed to attend the annual summit...
The Temple of Israel is a Reform synagogue located at the corner of Fourth and Market Streets in Wilmington, North Carolina. Dedicated on May 12,...
It was an ordinary ride that delivered an extraordinary idea. Earlier this week, in Washington, D.C., I stepped into an Uber driven by a retired...
Sadly, few Democrats these days—apart from an outlier like Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.)—can summon even the most elementary, unambiguous support...
There is a particular kind of political statement that sounds almost throwaway until you notice how much weight it is carrying. “You have to build...
Last Sunday at the Montreal airport, a stranger asked where I was headed, and I said Vienna. It was true the way the easier thing is true: I was...