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Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

May 29, 2026, 5:51 PM

Guterres Shields Offenders While Targeting Israel

United National Secretary-General Antonio Guterres attended an event to mark the end of the U.N. political mission in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Dec. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

António Guterres has spent nine years claiming to combat sexual exploitation while presiding over an institution that shields its own offenders. At the same time, he has led a relentless campaign against the Middle East’s only democracy. This is...

May 20, 2026, 8:33 PM

Bill Maher, a Comedian and HBO Host that Stands with Israel

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Back in 2024, within a year of the October 7th attacks in Israel, I had just returned from Jerusalem where I had spent the Jewish Holiday of Passover and heard that world famous Comedian Bill Maher would be doing...

May 18, 2026, 6:55 PM

Future Rescue Technology: Live AI-Dog Systems for Battlefields and Earthquakes

When a Dog Becomes a Living Sensor System in the Age of AI. From the Tragedy in Shejaiya to a New Vision of Human-Animal-Machine Interfaces. In December 2023, Pank, a dog from the Oketz Unit, was sent on an operational mission...

May 14, 2026, 6:17 AM

A silence still heard

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By now, one has either heard of the extensive sexual violence committed against women in Israel by Hamas, or one has chosen to live under the most apathetic rock. In the seemingly never ending saga of shedding light on...

May 13, 2026, 9:24 PM

Meeting Edan Alexander with California’s District 32 Candidate Dory Benami

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It was one year ago yesterday, on May 12th, 2025, that American-Israeli Edan Alexander was released after surviving 584 days in Hamas captivity in Gaza after being kidnapped on October 7, 2023 from southern Israel. I met Edan this...

May 10, 2026, 1:10 AM

Things Not to Say on Dates or On Television

I was running late, which is unlike me, but work had thrown me into a week of community engagements and television interviews I was unprepared—and unprepped—for. At the time, I was working with October 7th survivors and hostage families....

Peter Himmelman

May 5, 2026, 8:24 PM

After the Slogan: What People Chanting ‘From the River to the Sea’ Must Explain

Calls for the dismantling of Israel have become increasingly common. What was once confined to the ideological fringes is now chanted openly in the streets, printed on placards, repeated on campuses, amplified online, and spoken aloud by activists, academics,...

Alyssa Rachel Gross

Apr 28, 2026, 2:02 PM

A Woman Apart: Rachel Goldberg-Polin

This undated photo provided by Rachel Goldberg-Polin shows her with her son Hersh Goldberg-Polin. (Courtesy of Rachel Goldberg-Polin via AP)

We all know Rachel Goldberg-Polin, a woman whose raison d'être was to fight, advocate, and plead for her son's safe return to anyone who would listen. Her son, Hersh Goldberg-Polin, was kidnapped on October 7, 2023, in Israel at...

Apr 23, 2026, 4:05 AM

A timeless pair

Yom HaZikaron and Yom HaAtzmaut: a pairing of days and meaning where one could not exist without the other. There may not be a more perfect summation on the tangible calendar for the intangible Jewish experience. It is a yin...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Apr 22, 2026, 3:31 AM

Turning Point USA’s Antisemitic Realignment

When Charlie Kirk was killed at a Turning Point USA event in Utah on September 10, 2025, many conservatives—including myself—pointed to the extreme left’s decade-long campaign to demonize the MAGA movement. But what followed is more troubling: Kirk’s own...

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