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Feb 13, 2026, 12:38 PM

Shalom Brothers: Mishpatim – Men Who ‘Didn’t Know’

Parashat Mishpatim is Torah at its most unglamorous—and most urgent. No miracles. No spectacle. Just case law after case law about harm, liability, and repair. It’s as if the Torah is saying: if you want a holy society, stop...

Feb 7, 2026, 10:52 PM

Why Epstein’s Relationship With Barak Doesn’t Prove He Wasn’t an Israeli Spy

Introduction Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently claimed that Jeffrey Epstein’s “unusual close relationship” with former prime minister Ehud Barak proves Epstein was not an Israeli intelligence asset. Writing on X, Netanyahu argued that because Barak is one of his fiercest...

Nov 18, 2025, 5:39 AM

Do Not Disturb This Fragile Peace: Zionism is not a movement of destruction

By Rabbi Reuven Kahane author of upcoming novel, Amerikan Holocaust and Dr. Shmuel Legesse Upcoming author of Moral Diplomacy for a Broken World: Inspired by the Vision of Rabbi Jonathan Sacks Israel has just emerged from one of the most painful...

Oct 13, 2025, 11:04 PM

Israel at a Crossroads?!

For decades, Israel has been accused of rejecting precisely planned for Gaza. Critics call it stubbornness. Supporters call it self-defense. The truth lies between those poles: Israel did not reject precisely plan because it feared coexistence; it rejected precisely...

May 19, 2025, 2:07 PM

Day 591 Of The War: This Is Our Fight

last night at Habima Square, my photo

Last week, I didn’t write my blog because I went on a short vacation to Paris to see some art and experience everyday life in another country. I tried not to stay glued to the news, but I was...

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May 6, 2025, 3:12 PM

The wishful thinking of Ehud Barak

Opinion Extremist fringe parties love to translate their idealism into pipedreams. Their fanaticism can be dangerous and must be exposed, though their value may be inspiring or fueling more reasonable and realistic ideas for change, like we find in Benny...

Jan 12, 2025, 6:40 PM

How workers of a Brooklyn theatre are trying to hijack history

"Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, George Orwell, Politics and the English Language The Alamo Drafthouse theatre in Brooklyn recently started screening September 5, a historical drama thriller that depicts the 1972 Munich Massacre from...

Sep 8, 2024, 4:43 PM

Day 338 Of The War: Throwing Dust/Sand In Our Eyes

Walking north on Begin highway I saw this devastating display

It’s hard not to dwell on the symbolic meaning of arresting the young woman who allegedly threw sand in Ben Gvir's direction when he appeared at the beach in Tel Aviv on Friday. She was taken into custody and...

Feb 23, 2024, 6:11 PM

Weaponizing the Hostages

When I think of the hostages, in particular of the women going through the hell that the Palestinians are surely inflicting on them, I want to lash out. I want to hurt someone. I can’t even think about it...

Feb 20, 2024, 10:57 AM

Ehud Barak’s Plot against Israel

Ehud Barak is not only the former deputy head of the Air Force who was instrumental in scuttling the Lavi fighter jet project in 1987, making Israel more dependent on the United States. Ehud Barak is not only the former...

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