Kind: Reads

I didn’t know that college would be a factory of unreason.

Aaron Bushnell’s agony didn’t start with Israel’s war in Gaza. It began with an abusive cult that traumatized its children, and saw the destruction of Israel as a gateway to heaven.

Guardrails are just people.

“Nothing has changed about our policy—nothing,” John Kirby told reporters after Washington abstained rather than vetoing a U.N. Security Council resolution.

The IDF’s Rafah operation must begin with a large-scale evacuation and screening to ensure that terrorists don’t escape with civilians.

As he read his prepared remarks, Senator Chuck Schumer‘s recent diatribe against Israel seemed like he was competing for best-supporting actor in a growing treacherous horror film within the Democratic Party as to who can be more hostile to Israel

Your Invincible Summer Within: A Purim Message of Hope by Shira Schechter

Purim serves as a powerful reminder that joy is not confined to moments of happiness alone; it is also crucial during difficult times.

This long-term and generational connection of Israel as the owner of the land and the Temple Mount is a legitimate fact.

“The lack of a decisive victory in Gaza may bring us closer to a war in the north,” Gallant said ahead of meetings in Washington.

Released at the start of the Jewish holiday of Purim, the Hebrew-language song “Afikim Ba Negev” offers a powerful prayer for the return of the hostages that was inspired by Psalm 126.

The terrorist group insists on “permanent ceasefire.”

America, illiberalism, and the duty to warn.

The resolution also demands the immediate and unconditional release of Israeli hostages.

The Senate majority leader’s name doesn’t mean what he thinks it does

Plus: Careening toward authoritarianism with eyes wide open.

The boatman cuts his outboard motor and the rusty launch drifts with the sluggish current of the Suriname River. Try as I might, even with the help of two Parbo Biers, I can’t conjure up a Jewish community along these green banks — much less a realm of Jewish autonomy where Shabbat-keeping plantation owners held sway over […]

In late December, the murder by Hamas of a Canadian-Israeli citizen, 70-year-old Judith Weinstein Haggai of Kibbutz Nir Oz, was confirmed. As has been their habit, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Minister of Foreign Affairs Mélanie Joly, and Canada’s ambassador to Israel, Lisa Stadelbauer, were all silent. I was not. My rebuke of the Canadian ambassador […]

A few months before I graduated from Oxford, I was interviewed for the British Broadcasting Corporation’s prestigious two-year journalist trainee course. This was the best way at the time to secure a job at Britain’s most respected news broadcaster. A committee of five interviewed me. The chair asked whether there was anything I would have […]

Immediately after news of Hamas’s October 7 massacres broke — before it was known just what had happened, before the shock of the cruelty had been absorbed (which will, perhaps, never happen) — instant, and astonishingly confident, analyses of the event’s “root cause” emerged. On October 7 itself, the Democratic Socialists of America, once the home of Michael Harrington’s […]