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Mordechai Sones
Totalitarian Israeli Democracy in the Age of Reason
Imagine transporting two thinkers from the past to the corridors of the Israeli Knesset. One is Frédéric Bastiat, a 19th-century…
Pita on Pesach: When Jewish Identity Dies, Jewish Blood Is Spilled
In the first part of this series, we established a foundational principle for survival: A is A. Drawing on sources…
A is A: Torah, Aristotle, and the Limits of Judging Enemies Favorably
After an Arab worker was recorded contaminating ice cream for Jewish customers, I commented that I always wondered about the…
The Manufactured Measles Crisis: How Vaccine Campaigns Ignite Outbreaks from Texas to Tel Aviv
In the summer of 2025, a specter returned to haunt the Western world. Measles, a disease declared vanquished from the…
Justice, Justice You Shall Automate?
The Torah portion of Shoftim contains one of the most foundational injunctions in Jewish jurisprudence: “צֶדֶק צֶדֶק תִּרְדֹּף” – “Justice,…
Idols of Excess: How Cheap Obscenity and Hyperbole Are Breeding a Violent, Soulless Society
The Age of Absurdity Something is broken in the way we talk, think, and feel. It is a subtle fracture,…
From Baseless Hatred to a World at War: Reversing Tisha B’Av
A Shot Heard Across Time It began, as world-changing events sometimes do, with a single act of violence on an…
The Individual and the State: A Shift in Power and Responsibility
Historically, the classical liberal view of government was one of cautious distrust. Its role was not to provide for the…
The Tyranny of Tolerance: How an Enlightenment Error Is Tearing Israel Apart
A recent, thoughtful critique of the idea of a "Jewish Compassion Deficit Syndrome" raised a crucial point about the pragmatic…
Jewish Compassion Deficit Syndrome: Our Dangerous Double Standard
In an era of perpetual conflict, where Israel’s survival hinges on unflinching realism, a peculiar and dangerous inconsistency plagues our…