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Guinea Pig State: How Israel Went from COVID ‘Trial Lab’ to an Open-Air Chemical Experiment
There is a comforting, albeit naive, lie we tell ourselves when the State of Israel fails to protect us: It’s just bureaucracy. It’s incompetence. It’s a lack of funding. We tell ourselves this when we discover that the "bug-free" lettuce on our Shabbat tables is saturated with toxic pesticide cocktails.…
The Middle Eastern Union Agenda: Saudi-Led Integration and the Future of Israeli Sovereignty
The media proclivity to ignore or deny the reality of the move toward a Middle Eastern Union — a merging of Israel into a Saudi- and UAE-led regional bloc in the same vein as the European Union — continues, with those who identify the broader pattern often dismissed as alarmists.…
Rabbi Lior’s Office Deflects on Ben Gvir Temple Mount Ruling
A firestorm is brewing in the religious world following reports that Rabbi Dov Lior has granted Minister Itamar Ben Gvir a "special halachic permission" to enter all areas of the Temple Mount—including those traditionally forbidden under the penalty of kares (spiritual excision)—to demonstrate Jewish sovereignty. The report claims the veteran…
Psalm 83 in Real Time: From the Church of Rome to the Islamic Republic
In the days of Asaph the Seer, the nations formed a confederacy — Edom, Ishmaelites, Moab, Ammon, Amalek, Philistines, Tyre, and the children of Lot backed by Assyria — and plotted with one mind against the G-d of Israel and against His people. Their goal was not mere defeat, but…
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,…