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Steven Teplitsky

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The Architecture of Influence

How Qatar’s Al Jazeera infiltrated Western newsrooms, dismantled Cold War verification standards, and turned breaking headlines into geopolitical...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Steven Teplitsky

The Liberal Orthodoxy and the Petrostate Pipeline

How foreign autocracies and elite campus wealth quietly bankroll the progressive establishment. The prevailing American orthodoxy possesses an uncanny...

26.07.2026 40

The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Steven Teplitsky

France Created Its Own Competitor

How Charles de Gaulle’s embargo transformed Israel from a customer into a competitor. France did not intend to build one of the world’s most...

24.07.2026 40

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Steven Teplitsky

The Day We Counted the Flames: Tisha B’Av and the Six Million

It is a warm, bright afternoon. The sky is a perfect, cloudless blue. You are sitting in a massive, open-air stadium, surrounded by the sensory...

23.07.2026 40

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Steven Teplitsky

Scapegoat – Blame Is Easier Than Truth

Every civilization eventually learns that solving problems is difficult. Finding someone to blame is easy. History is filled with societies convinced...

22.07.2026 50

The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Steven Teplitsky

The arrest that could never happen

When Political Theater Collides with Constitutional Reality You know the headlines. You’ve read the papers. You know about the fiery rhetoric...

21.07.2026 50

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Steven Teplitsky

Bedtime stories for Zohran

The Witness has always believed that history begins long before history books. It begins at bedtime. Long before children understand politics, they...

20.07.2026 50

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Steven Teplitsky

If I can make it here

New York elected a mayor—or simply another candidate for higher office. Every ambitious politician eventually faces the same temptation. To treat...

19.07.2026 50

The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Steven Teplitsky

What If a U.S. President Pulled a de Gaulle?

“You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.”— Bob Dylan In June 1967, only days after Israel’s stunning victory in the...

03.07.2026 70

The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Steven Teplitsky

Mamdani unmasked – an analysis of political authenticity

“In Jewish History, there are no coincidences”. — Elie Wiesel In the modern political landscape, shifts in policy and strategic realignments...

30.06.2026 60

The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Steven Teplitsky

The Mayor Who Is Running For Everything Else

New York City elected a mayor. What it increasingly appears to have received is a candidate for higher office. Watch enough of Mayor Zohran...

24.06.2026 50

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Steven Teplitsky

Mission Accomplished?

Where have all the young men gone? Long time passing Where have all the young men gone? Long time ago Where have all the young men gone? They’re all...

16.06.2026 60

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Steven Teplitsky

Memorandum of (mis) Understanding

“He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat; it ever changes with the next block.”  –William Shakespeare, “Much Ado about Nothing”,...

14.06.2026 70

The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Steven Teplitsky

A Brandy in One Hand, a Cigar in the Other, the World Was Changed Forever

“I was sent to these Arabs as a stranger… but charged by duty to lead them… I was a participant in a fraud.” T.E. Lawrence aka Lawrence of...

24.05.2026 80

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Steven Teplitsky

What’s All This Talk about Streits

Growing up, the best part of a Shabbos meal was the Streits farfel that was served as a side dish. This past Pesach, we actually found Streits Matzo...

11.05.2026 50

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Steven Teplitsky

Not for All The Tea in China

“War is a racket” – Major General Smedley D. Butler, 1933.  Economic historians have long debated whether war is beneficial or detrimental to a...

03.05.2026 80

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Steven Teplitsky

Tilting at Windmills

Disingenuous: (of a person or their behaviour) slightly dishonest, or not speaking the complete truth – Cambridge Dictionary In 1478, Ferdinand and...

17.04.2026 100

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Steven Teplitsky

Attack Against Jewish Camps in Canada. Dog Whistle or Call to Action?

“If they say they want to kill you, then they will” – Reverend Jesse Jackson What a fitting introductory quote from a man who had a...

22.02.2026 100

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Steven Teplitsky

Are Jewish Camps in Canada Training Grounds for the IDF?

“We were granted the right to exist by the God of our fathers at the glimmer of the dawn of human civilization nearly 4,000 years ago. For that...

17.02.2026 100

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Steven Teplitsky

ICE – Is It Good For The Jews?

24.01.2026 150

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Steven Teplitsky

The Miracle of Chanuka 2186 Years Later

21.12.2025 70

The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Steven Teplitsky