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Stephen M. Flatow

Jun 22, 2026, 7:35 AM

From Casals to Cage Fights

From JFK and Pablo Casals to Trump and UFC, the White House guest list has become a revealing measure of presidential taste, national dignity and America’s idea of greatness. There was a time when the White House knew the difference...

Jun 18, 2026, 10:28 AM

Israel: Wake Up Before It Is Too Late

Photo Credits: Sabine Sterk (AI)

Defending Israel From The Digital Erasure Of Truth We are witnessing a quiet, catastrophic shift in how the world remembers the past. For generations, history was anchored by tangible evidence. It lived in physical archives, sworn diplomatic correspondence, and meticulously...

Barry Mellinger

Jun 16, 2026, 6:10 PM

Francesca’s Colonialism

Francesca Albanese has emerged as the UN’s loudest activist, not because she has uncovered anything new, but because she applies a single academic framework to every conflict she addresses. Her method is simple. History is reduced to two roles,...

Jun 16, 2026, 8:46 AM

Truths and Constructed Myths Regarding the Jewish Presence in Albania

The tendency to produce, package, and instrumentalize myths for specific purposes—whether individual, collective, historical, or political—is considered “normal” in the Balkan Peninsula. It suffices that such actions yield the desired effect or outcome for those who construct, package, or...

Jun 16, 2026, 8:38 AM

Lesson from the Jewish Diaspora: Never Give Up – On the Issues, Episode 150

People hold Israeli and U.S. flags and a sign reading “We stand with Israel.” Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images.

Speaking with a professor whose mind and heart are in the right place is like digging for the truth and its deeper historical roots. He is the remarkable scholar who recently founded the Institute for Humanitarian Conflict Resolution (IHCR)...

Jun 14, 2026, 7:29 PM

The Goldhagen Debate: Reflections on the merits of historical revisionism

Daniel Goldhagen holds a copy of "Hitler's Willing Executioners."

A PARADIGM CHALLENGED In the spring of 1996, Daniel Goldhagen openly challenged the prevailing scholarly interpretation of the Holocaust. The political scientist from Harvard had burst onto the American literary scene in a most unusual fashion. He published a book...

Jun 14, 2026, 5:36 PM

Killing in the Name of God

The science-fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke suggested that killing in the name of God might be a fairly good definition of insanity. Sounds reasonable. If God created the world, then we are all His creations. And the idea that God...

Jun 13, 2026, 10:21 AM

Irresistible Israel

Photo Credits: Sabine Sterk (Ai)

"You're insane." I have heard it countless times. People tell me I am paid by CIDI. Others claim I am paid by Mossad. Every possible accusation has been thrown at me simply because I openly confess my love for Israel. Many people...

Jun 13, 2026, 12:53 AM

Treasure Trove: Keren Hayesod – From a 1922 Sacrifice Bond to Today

From the Herzl and Zionism Collection of David Matlow, Toronto (www.herzlcollection.com). Photograph by David Matlow.

This Keren Hayesod Sacrifice Bond certificate represents more of a sacrifice than a bond. Issued in 1922, it was part of a fundraising initiative “for the upbuilding of Palestine as a homeland for the Jewish people” and records a sacrifice...

Walter Estever Gonzalez

Jun 11, 2026, 4:32 AM

Before We Understood What a Grenade Was

A childhood memory from San Jorge, El Salvador, during the Salvadoran Civil War.

There are memories that remain suspended between childhood and catastrophe. At the time they happen, they do not feel historical. They do not announce themselves as trauma. They arrive disguised as confusion, as heat, as adults behaving strangely while...

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