Aryeh Schonbrun

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Feb 19, 2025, 10:10 PM

Alternative for America: The Dangerous Embrace of European Anarchism

J.D. Vance’s inaugural foray into international diplomacy made headlines last week, as he challenged Europe’s leaders on their record of free speech and civil liberties. While some of his critiques were well-founded and legitimate, his ignorance in regard to...

Feb 11, 2025, 12:29 AM

MAGA: America’s Hilltop Youth

Daniel Boone escorting settlers through the Cumberland Gap, 1851-52 (oil on canvas) by Bingham, George Caleb (1811-79); Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri. (Public Domain)

Once upon a time, dinosaurs traversed Pangea, one of our planet’s historical supercontinents with ease, unhindered by the vast oceans that have now formed between the landmasses. Smack in the middle of Pangea, lay the Central Pangean Mountains, a...

Feb 2, 2025, 7:19 AM

La guerra cultural contra México: ‘Wokeism’ as an Imperialist Ploy

Most people living in America today are only too familiar with the major cultural debate captivating the nation surrounding ‘Wokeism,’ an ultra-progressive ideology. Previously a largely marginal issue involving only a small group of minorities, this uncomfortable debate has...

Jan 30, 2025, 11:00 AM

El Derecho de Retorno: In Support of the Mexican Reconquista

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On the 14th of May 1948, David Ben-Gurion delivered Israel’s Declaration of Independence of the State of Israel. He did so in the midst of a bloody war that began months earlier and would not conclude until the summer...

Jan 20, 2025, 1:01 PM

A Self-Righteous Exile: An Israeli’s Critique of Modern Orthodoxy

Over the years, I’ve spent much time in many diverse and varied Jewish communities in the world. I’ve reaped the benefits of hospitality that international Judaism confers, but I’ve also had to surrender much of my individual political autonomy...

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...

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

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