Israel’s Virtues
by Faydra ShapiroI believe we live more meaningful lives here than we could in North America. The ease of 24-hour drive-thru society and the comfort of higher wages and cheaper consumer goods are never going to be enough to stave off the West’s existential malaise. Continue Reading »
Fight Together, Win Together
by Liel LeibovitzOn Saturday, October 7, a band of Hamas terrorists breached an internationally recognized border and crossed into Israel. Over the next twelve hours, they committed unspeakable horrors against a defenseless civilian population. They beheaded babies and burned entire families alive. They raped women . . . . Continue Reading »
Facing the Crisis
by R. R. RenoOn October 7, more Jews were killed than on any single day since the Holocaust, many in brutal and sadistic ways. Rapes committed, hostages taken, concertgoers gunned down, corpses desecrated, small children murdered: The attack by Hamas militants on civilians unveiled the terrible darkness of the . . . . 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 »
Hazards of Nationalism
by Matthew SchmitzAnti-Christian violence is on the rise in Israel. Jewish extremists have attacked Christian sites six times since the new year, compared to nine such attacks in the whole of 2021 and thirteen in 2020. At the Protestant cemetery on Mount Zion, Jewish youths desecrated more than thirty graves, . . . . Continue Reading »
Israel's Great Compromise
by Shalom LipnerThe protests raging currently across Israel are, at their core, about the conflict over the essence of what it means to be a Jewish democracy. Continue Reading »
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