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Aug 2, 2026, 5:08 AM

“The Palestinian Cause” Has Failed Everyone!

It Is Time to Rethink the Palestinian Cause

Aug 2, 2026, 5:05 AM

Remembering and Honouring Michael Levin Twenty Years Later

Michael z"l and Harriet Levin. Photo ©️Levin Family 2026

On Tisha b'Av, the most sombre day in the Jewish calendar, twenty years ago, Michael Levin z"l, the only American/Israeli casualty of the Second Lebanon War, was laid to rest on Mt. Herzl. This past week, his family, comrades,...

Andy Blumenthal

Aug 2, 2026, 4:57 AM

Don’t Wait Until Death to Learn How to Live

Mitch Albom’s The Five People You Meet in Heaven is a novel about Eddie, an aging amusement-park maintenance worker who dies trying to save a child and then meets five people in heaven. Each encounter helps him understand a...

Aug 2, 2026, 4:53 AM

Which Truths Shape How Israel Is Viewed?

A few days ago, I was listening to the Commentary podcast when John Podhoretz quoted a remark Barack Obama made shortly after the October 7 massacre. I had almost forgotten the comment, but hearing it again brought back the...

Ibrahim Mukherjee

Aug 2, 2026, 4:50 AM

The Angels of our nature.

One of the oldest questions humanity has ever asked is also one of the most personal. Are human beings fundamentally good? Or fundamentally violent? Modern psychology has wrestled with this question for decades. In The Better Angels of Our Nature, the psychologist Steven...

Shaike Komornik

Aug 1, 2026, 5:13 PM

Disarmament on Paper, Doubt in Reality

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(Official White House Photo by Joyce N. Boghosian)

U.S. President Donald Trump announced over the weekend what he described as a "historic agreement" to disarm Hamas under the framework of the "Peace Council" he established as part of his "20-Point Plan." The announcement, published on Truth Social,...

Aug 1, 2026, 5:09 PM

Treasure Trove: Who Should Not Live and Be Well?

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

After the 1967 Six Day War, the originator of the comic book hero Captain America produced a spoof on the war and its political aftermath. A Funny Thing Happened To Me on the Way to Tel Aviv is a...

Aug 1, 2026, 11:29 AM

Trump’s Gaza Plan: Netanyahu’s Dilemma

Nearly a year after the Gaza ceasefire took hold, the fight over what Israel actually agreed to has resurfaced — and this time the argument is sharper, the stakes are higher, and the clock is louder. On July 31,...

Aug 1, 2026, 11:27 AM

"Moshe, did you know that liberal American Jews are stuck in a quagmire?" "Are you talking about the pervert on Family Guy?" Mordechai asked. "No," Moshe replied with a laugh. "Then are you talking about the expression the media used during the...

Aug 1, 2026, 10:40 AM

How a Cornered Israel Could Drag the Whole World Into Nuclear Winter

Nine countries hold nuclear weapons. Eight of them can lose a city and still be a country the next morning. Russia could absorb a strike on Moscow and govern from a hundred other places across eleven time zones. The...

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