Aryeh Schonbrun

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Dec 9, 2024, 6:23 PM

God Bless America? Confessions of a Self-Loathing Jew

German-Jewish refugees, denied asylum, 1939.
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For well over a century, the United States has been seen by Jews worldwide as a promised land, a safe haven for the persecuted masses of Eastern European Jews that fled the pogroms of the old country, and a...

Oct 1, 2024, 5:10 PM

Israel as a Christian Indulgence: The Case for Evangelical Reform

"A Question to a Mintmaker", woodcut by Jörg Breu the Elder of Augsburg, c. 1530, critical of the practice of selling indulgences. (Wikimedia Commons)

On October 31, 1517, the Christian world was torn asunder by the provocative words of Martin Luther's Ninety-Five Theses, the work of a rebellious priest who took a stand against the abuses allegedly perpetrated by the Catholic church and...

May 13, 2024, 1:00 AM

America’s Palestinian Pickle

"The World in a Cloverleaf"
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Last Friday, the United Nations General Assembly voted to invest the Palestinian delegations with nearly all the rights granted to full-fledged members of the body. Earlier that day, E.U. foreign policy chief Josep Borrell announced that a few member...

May 6, 2024, 10:55 PM

On Patriotic Sabotage: Why Israel Needs to be Sanctioned

As the prospect of a further invasion of Gaza approaches and tensions in the region escalate, many distressed Israeli and American citizens watch in horror as the American-funded IDF promises to continue battering Gaza into oblivion. While internal pressure...

May 3, 2024, 7:46 PM

Privileged Victimhood: Antisemitism in America

Over the past few weeks, Western media has been covering the growing discontent among American university students surrounding the war in Gaza which has led to tense standoffs with police and unprecedented political intervention on a scale last seen...

Apr 3, 2024, 8:51 AM

¿Nosotros, el Pueblo? The case for North American integration

In 1993, the European Union was born at the Treaty of Maastricht. However, European integration began many years earlier, with the signing of the Treaty of Paris in 1951, which established the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), followed...

Mar 14, 2024, 5:23 PM

Politics Vs. Professionalism: Israel’s Growing Power Struggle

Hamas’ brutal attack on October 7th changed many perspectives on the Israeli state, both domestically and internationally. Hamas’ initial success befuddled the minds of most Zionists who could not wrap their minds around the fact that Israel had been...

Feb 29, 2024, 3:28 PM

‘Don’t Mention the War’: Israel’s Denial of Reality

Over the past month, I’ve endured much suffering at the hands of Israeli society. Though I engaged in productive political activities in defense of Israeli interests in Europe, my work here is ridiculed and ignored by all established forces....

Dec 21, 2023, 7:45 PM

On American Idiocy

If we’ve learned anything from the past few months, we’ve learned to cherish our lives and those of our loved ones. Whenever violence breaks out, we instinctively regress into a state of appreciating the bare necessities of life, food,...

Dec 6, 2023, 9:01 AM

The Strange Genocide of Europe

The term “genocide” has been getting thrown around a lot as of late, with many competing narratives claiming themselves as victims of such a heinous crime. Both Palestinian and Israeli spokesmen have respectively described the Simchas Torah massacres, and...

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Originally from Westchester, NY, Aryeh made Aliyah 7 years ago.

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