Tag: Israel

Featured Home War & Peace 11 Min Read

From Pagers to Eyeglasses: Israel’s Next Frontier in Covert Warfare?

In September 2024, the world watched as Israel executed one of the most audacious and technologically sophisticated covert operations in modern history. The simultaneous detonation of thousands of pagers across Lebanon and Syria dealt a stunning blow to Hezbollah's command-and-control infrastructure. The attack, a masterclass in supply-chain infiltration, did more

Israel Judaism Opinion War & Peace 14 Min Read

The Genocide Mitzvah, the Prime Minister’s Hubris, and the King’s Humility

The commandment to blot out the memory of Amalek is understood not merely as an act of simple warfare, but as a necessary and divinely-ordained mitzvah to purify the world of a unique metaphysical evil. This obligation is a fundamental component of achieving a moral world. The Source and Nature

Israel Judaism 17 Min Read

The New Indoctrination: How Marxist Pedagogy is Quietly Infiltrating Israeli Schools

In a brightly decorated kindergarten classroom in Rishon LeZion, children are gathered in a circle. They are not learning the Aleph Bet or the wisdom of the Torah. Instead, their teacher, trained in a new and increasingly popular methodology, is guiding them through a "critical discussion" about Family Day. They

Diaspora Health Israel 18 Min Read

The Price of Compliance: How Government Co-opted Rabbis, Clinics, and Community Leaders to Enforce Vaccine Mandates

In the frantic spring of 2021, a torrent of federal money began flooding the United States. Billed as a lifeline, the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) was a monumental financial intervention purported to pull the nation from the depths of the COVID-19 pandemic. For community health centers—the trusted local clinics

Israel Judaism Opinion 15 Min Read

The Unowned Nation of Tenants

In 1948, as the State of Israel was forged in the crucible of war, the American philosopher Richard M. Weaver published a book that served as a profound and chilling diagnosis of the modern world’s maladies. In Ideas Have Consequences, he argued that the West’s turn from transcendent truths had

Featured Home Israel Judaism 13 Min Read

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 French economist, whose treatise, The Law, reads like a contemporary critique of the proceedings. The other is J.L. Talmon, an Israeli historian from the 1960's, whose life's work charted the

Featured Israel Judaism Opinion War & Peace 12 Min Read

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 that Aristotle learned from the Jewish prophets to the Creator’s own self-declaration of “Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh,” we argued that to deny the observable, empirical identity of our enemies is a

Israel Judaism Opinion War & Peace 7 Min Read

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 people who run to bomb shelters, yet have no problem eating in restaurants with Arabs working there. A reader commented, "Tell me to which population you generalize when a, or

Diaspora Health Israel 12 Min Read

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 United States a quarter-century ago, is back with a vengeance. With 1,408 confirmed cases logged across America as of late August 2025 and hundreds in Israel amid ongoing surges, public

Israel Judaism 14 Min Read

Justice, Justice You Shall Automate?

The Torah portion of Shoftim contains one of the most foundational injunctions in Jewish jurisprudence: “צֶדֶק צֶדֶק תִּרְדֹּף” – “Justice, justice you shall pursue.” Rashi explains the repetition of the word “justice” as a profound command: one must pursue justice relentlessly, through just and righteous means. The method of pursuit