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Yom Ha’atzmaut 5786: Israel’s Sovereignty Is a Dangerous Illusion
Yom Ha’atzmaut 5786. Seventy-eight years after the declaration of the State of Israel, we are told to wave flags, sing Hatikvah, and celebrate independence. But as the smoke from the multi-front wars of 2023–2026 continues to fill the theater, a harsher truth confronts every Jew who loves the Land: the…
The Incommensurable Truth: Why I Write What I Write
Thomas Kuhn (1922–1996) was an American historian and philosopher of science whose work profoundly reshaped how we understand scientific progress. He taught that science progresses by paradigm shifts in which the old worldview is overturned by one that seemed heretical or incredible just before the revolution. Kuhn described the relationship…
Pesach: Dismantling the Idols of the Modern Age
At Second Avenue and 5th Street there remained a German landmark among the Jews. It was a Lutheran church, a brick building with an old-fashioned porch. One summer morning I saw a curious sight there. A crowd had gathered in front of the church, jeering and booing. There were venerable…
No-Win Policy: Why the ‘Victory’ You Were Promised is a Strategic Lie
To the Jewish community and the steadfast friends of Israel, the current reality often feels like a tragic series of military setbacks or unavoidable complexities. We are told by our leaders that "total victory" is just over the next ridge in Gaza, that the northern border will be "secured" through…
Smoothing the Path to Error: Why Modern Security Protocols Mimic Ancient Idolatry
In the quiet hours of a restless night in Eretz Yisrael, a siren wails. For many, the response is reflexive: a frantic scramble to wake sleeping children, a hurried dash to a concrete room, and a spike in cortisol that may not subside for days. We call this hishtadlut (effort)…
Repentance or Happenstance?
In the opening chapters of Hilchot Ta’aniyot (The Laws of Fasts), the Rambam (Maimonides) codifies a fundamental principle of Jewish existence: It is a positive commandment of the Torah, he writes, to cry out and sound the trumpets for any trouble that strikes the community. Whether it be a plague,…
The Singularity of Singularities: From Global Totalism to Hashem Echad
The acceleration of history has reached a velocity where the old laws of social and political physics no longer apply. We are approaching what mathematicians and physicists call a singularity—a point where a function takes an infinite value and the predictable rules of the universe break down. Yet, for the…
‘Hishtadlut Injuries’ and The V’nishmartem Inconsistency: A Call for Halakhic and Statistical Integrity
In the wake of recent security escalations, a specific defense has become the default shield for those who engage in the frantic, bone-breaking rush to bomb shelters: the halakhic mandate of V’nishmartem m’od l’nafshoteichem—the solemn command to "guard your souls exceedingly." On its surface, the argument is pious and unassailable.…
How Iran’s Missiles Happen To Be Clearing the Path for Israel’s Real Estate Giants
In the dense, sun-drenched urban dilapidation of central Israel, a statistical miracle is unfolding under the shadow of ballistic fire—one that has transformed the misery of missile bombardment into a sudden windfall for the nation's most powerful real estate developers. While the Iron Dome and Arrow systems allegedly maintain a…
Three to Five Years, Forever: Thirty Years of the Iranian Nuclear ‘Deadline’ and the Strategic Utility of Perpetual Imminence
For more than three decades, Iran has been portrayed as an imminent and existential threat, perpetually on the verge of acquiring a nuclear weapon. This narrative of impending crisis was firmly established as early as 1992, when Binyamin Netanyahu, then a member of the Israeli Knesset, warned that Iran was…