Behind the scenes: who is really controlling Iran?
The real power in Iran has never resided solely in any single office. It has always been distributed across the networks that the Rafsanjani dynasty, more than any other family, helped create and continues to sustain.
It’s time to say it: Gaza’s population must go
The expulsion of Gaza’s population is not a war crime waiting to happen. It is the only serious, honest, permanent solution to a problem that October 7 made impossible to ignore, and that another October 7 will make impossible to forgive.
Beaufort, the Tehran Grand Bazaar, and boots on the ground in Lebanon
A twelfth-century Crusader fortress in southern Lebanon teaches a lesson that Washington keeps refusing to learn: ceasefires are not a strategy, and walking away from the battlefield only guarantees the next generation will have to return to it.
We took Isaiah 61 to Kenya, and 150 people walked free
Ten months ago, I traveled to Kenya to install three water wells for communities in desperate need. One of those wells went into the Bomet Prison. I didn’t know then how significant that visit would turn out to be.
You cannot make a deal with a regime that lies as a strategic weapon
“I want to believe that President Trump understands what I know to be true about the Islamic Republic: You can never negotiate with them. They will always lie and do anything to stay in power and maintain control over more than 90 million Iranians.”
Will the America First movement abandon Israel?
Charlie Kirk was worried. Privately, in conversations and in a letter he sent to Prime Minister Netanyahu roughly five months before he was killed, Kirk outlined what he saw coming: a younger generation of America First conservatives being systematically turned against Israel, and Israel doing almost nothing to stop it.
Woe to the judges who call evil good
The International Criminal Court presents itself as the world’s highest court of justice. Now imagine that one of its judges receives a private visit from an envoy of a wealthy and powerful nation. The message is simple: rule against our enemy, and we will make you a very rich man.
An American Shabbat
As we celebrate this national Shabbat together, we must also take pause and look at how America treats the Jews. There’s a dangerous and unprecedented increase in the permissiveness of widespread antisemitism, from Main St. to Sesame St., from Broadway to the boardrooms.
Israel was never meant to be a safe haven. It was meant to be a light unto the nations.
Rabbi Lavie believes that the current war has created a shift in Israel’s essential role, changing it from a post-Holocaust safe-haven and moving it towards its sacred purpose as a moral and spiritual leader of the nations.
A national Shabbat: Why all Americans should mark the 250th
However, if we are to truly honor the essence of the Sabbath and the spirit of this milestone, that celebration must extend its reach. This Sabbath should not just be a Jewish event; it should be a clarion call to non-Jews across the nation.