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Oct 15, 2026, 10:20 AM

The Wound and the Crown

This is part three of a four-part series about narcissism in a variety of its permutations. It describes a problem, almost as ancient as Judaism, and still important today. Part Three examines how groups disguise privileges as moral licenses. Everyone...

Vladimir Beliak

Oct 14, 2026, 8:09 PM

Olim want the Israel they were promised

The author at work in the Knesset.

In the Israeli discourse, the word “Aliyah” (immigration) always comes alongside the word “Klita” (absorption). The Sal Klita - the benefits new immigrants get. The Ministry of Aliyah and you guessed it, Klita - absorption. This reflects a common Israeli...

Oct 13, 2026, 1:00 PM

The Nobel Piss Prize

Chairwoman of the so-called United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and in Israel, South Africa's Navi Pillay speaks during a briefing to UN member states about the Commission's ongoing investigations at the UN offices in Geneva on April 16, 2024. (Photo by Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP)

When Ziophobia Masquerades as Moral Authority I have not respected the Nobel Peace Prize since 1994. That was the year the Norwegian Nobel Committee decided to award its most prestigious peace prize to Yasser Arafat—and make it infamous. Arafat was not merely...

Oct 13, 2026, 10:47 AM

Nearly half of Israel’s parties have no platform

Likud has not published a platform for the October 27 election. There's no platform on the current party website, on the older Likud movement site, or on Benjamin Netanyahu's political site. The last full Likud platform I could find...

Oct 12, 2026, 7:20 PM

I accept being governed by an idiot, not that the general who may head the next government is one, though I wouldn't rule it out. Democracy obliges me to bear that risk, and so I also accept losing to...

Oct 9, 2026, 8:41 AM

Disagreement is not the opposite of intimacy

I watched as This Guy walked up to the bartender and ordered us another round. Our little table had accumulated an impressive collection of glasses as the bar slowly emptied around us. It was getting late for a Tuesday,...

Oct 8, 2026, 10:42 AM

The Entitlement Trap

This is a four-part series about narcissism in a variety of its permutations. It describes a problem, almost as ancient as Judaism, and still important today. Part Two investigates how rationalized comforts can quickly transform into a sense of...

Oct 7, 2026, 2:54 PM

A Political Reading of Parashat Bereshit

Leadership is tested not when decisions succeed, but when they fail. Three years after the catastrophe of October 7th, an urgent political question remains unanswered: Who is responsible for the failure that allowed the massacre to happen? The Israeli...

Oct 6, 2026, 6:57 PM

What Is Zionism For?

Mashiach ben Yosef, Mashiach ben David, and the Unfinished Work of Religious Zionism My friend Adam Louis-Klein and I have been studying the book Kol HaNevuah—The Voice of Prophecy—together. It is the great philosophical work of Rabbi David Cohen, the Nazir,...

Oct 5, 2026, 12:09 PM

The World Must Condemn the Flydubai Attack

The survival of everyone aboard Flight FZ1073 was a relief, not a reason for international complacency. Governments can demand answers, respect an ongoing investigation and condemn violence against a civilian airliner at the same time. A Near-Catastrophe the World Cannot...

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