The Devil’s Face in Gaza
by Gerald McDermottThe face of Satan was on display during the October 7 attacks, and the war in Israel has brought vast change to Israeli society. Continue Reading »
On Moral Diffidence and Scarlet Letters
by Eugene KornThe church statements tend toward pacifism, and if we are pacifistic in the face of Hamas’s unrelenting evil, then we will abandon God’s creation to the forces of death and destruction. Continue Reading »
After October 7
by Tania HammerIsrael is at war, but these past few days of witnessing the love and gratitude of all who volunteered fill me with a bit of peace. Continue Reading »
Citizenship Is the Medication for Existential Angst
by Jonathan Pageau and Jordan B. PetersonBy always aligning our vision beyond particularities, we maintain our subsidiary identities in service of the highest Good. Continue Reading »
“Never Again,” Again
by Faydra ShapiroI thought wrinkly old Mrs. Steinberg with her scary stories was just stuck living in the bad old past. Continue Reading »
Evening and Morning in Israel
by Tevi TroyPraying is difficult in the face of such horrors. Continue Reading »
Israeli Strategy and Palestinian Despair
by Cole S. AronsonDepriving Palestinians of their instruments of terror is the only way to persuade them that the century-old goal of driving Jews out of Israel is impossible. Continue Reading »
Fanon’s Seduction of the Left
by Stiven PeterPostcolonialism will be used to justify violence in your own neighborhood. Continue Reading »
Jerusalem, Above
Our Chiefest Joy
by Ofir Haivry
By recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, the US has also recognized the reality that the Jewish idea is not only alive, but thriving. Continue Reading »
Middle-East Meets Middle-Earth
by William KilpatrickThank you Netanyahu and may God give us more [people] like you to destroy Hamas!” What’s this? The ravings of a fundamentalist Jewish settler in Gush Etzion? Congratulations from a Christian Zionist hunkered down in his bomb shelter somewhere in the Deep South? Continue Reading »
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