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Steven TeplitskyThe Times of Israel (Blogs) |
How Qatar’s Al Jazeera infiltrated Western newsrooms, dismantled Cold War verification standards, and turned breaking headlines into geopolitical...
How foreign autocracies and elite campus wealth quietly bankroll the progressive establishment. The prevailing American orthodoxy possesses an uncanny...
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...
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...
Every civilization eventually learns that solving problems is difficult. Finding someone to blame is easy. History is filled with societies convinced...
When Political Theater Collides with Constitutional Reality You know the headlines. You’ve read the papers. You know about the fiery rhetoric...
The Witness has always believed that history begins long before history books. It begins at bedtime. Long before children understand politics, they...
New York elected a mayor—or simply another candidate for higher office. Every ambitious politician eventually faces the same temptation. To treat...
“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...
“In Jewish History, there are no coincidences”. — Elie Wiesel In the modern political landscape, shifts in policy and strategic realignments...
New York City elected a mayor. What it increasingly appears to have received is a candidate for higher office. Watch enough of Mayor Zohran...
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...
“He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat; it ever changes with the next block.” –William Shakespeare, “Much Ado about Nothing”,...
“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...
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...
“War is a racket” – Major General Smedley D. Butler, 1933. Economic historians have long debated whether war is beneficial or detrimental to a...
Disingenuous: (of a person or their behaviour) slightly dishonest, or not speaking the complete truth – Cambridge Dictionary In 1478, Ferdinand and...
“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...
“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...