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Apr 25, 2026, 12:57 AM

How to Tell if You’re the Other Woman

Adapted meme based on a scene from Sex and the City (HBO), included here for cultural commentary.

One thing I wasn’t prepared for in dating was a man’s marital status. I felt good about my ability to spot fuckbois and their vices. I didn’t think I’d have to be on the lookout for their wives. Married Guy...

Apr 3, 2026, 11:18 AM

Israel–US–Iran War: Exposing a World Already Burning

This is a Passover meditation on freedom, power, and the viral cruelty infecting the world. The Israel–US–Iran War became the flashpoint that exposed worldwide moral toxins—cruelty, conflict, and instability. Are you apprehensive, confused, and disappointed by what’s happening? Each day...

Mohamed Elbaikam

Mar 24, 2026, 6:05 AM

Congress Must Judge Western Sahara on Its Own

Congress Should Not Outsource Its Judgment on Western Sahara By Mohamed Elbaikam Independent Sahrawi activist In Sahrawi culture, serious matters do not begin with noise. They begin with listening. Even tea in the desert is served in stages: the first glass...

Mar 17, 2026, 12:12 AM

Saddam also walked the streets of Baghdad before they found him in a hole

Saddam also walked the streets of Baghdad before they found him in a hole. (AI-generated)

On Friday last week, as American bombs fell within earshot of Ferdowsi Square, Iran staged one of those spectacles of performative defiance that authoritarian regimes produce with the instinctive fluency of a body producing antibodies – not because they...

Francine M. Gordon

Mar 4, 2026, 12:13 AM

Who is our Esther in this Modern Purim story?

Purim 5786 finds me on a cruise ship sailing the beautiful blues seas of the western Caribbean off the coast of Mexico. A very odd place to experience the beginning of The War to End the Evil Regime as...

Sagit Alkobi Fishman

Feb 27, 2026, 2:33 PM

What one photo from the Epstein files disrupted

The now-viral Hawking snapshot will not alter the legal record, but it has already unsettled something more diffuse: our myth of the bodiless genius

Feb 20, 2026, 8:53 AM

Shalom Brothers: Trumah – What Men Have to Offer

Men are starving for sanctuary—and many of us don’t know it until we try to rest and can’t. We live as if “safe” is a luxury item: a week off we never take, a calm we can’t hold, a relationship...

Feb 15, 2026, 11:09 AM

Chomsky, Epstein, and Me: How I Changed My Mind About Israel

Left: Noam Chomsky (Wikimedia Commons). Right: Jeffrey Epstein mugshot (Florida Department of Law Enforcement).

When your old intellectual hero gets exposed for his friendship and advice to a convicted rapist and sex trafficker. There I was in Noam Chomsky's office. We were laughing about how we both disliked Sam Harris, how Marx was...

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...

Alexandre Gilbert

Feb 12, 2026, 10:21 PM

Yaël Mellul Interview | Alexandre Gilbert #313

Yaël Mellul — former criminal defense lawyer specializing in domestic violence, founder of the association Femme et Libre, member of the “Women in the City” Commission of the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions of France (CRIF), architect of the offense of psychological domestic violence incorporated into the law of July 10, 2010, and named Woman of the Year by Marie Claire magazine in 2010.(Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0)

Yaël Mellul created the offense of psychological domestic violence, incorporated into the law of July 9, 2010. On January 29, 2020, the law aimed at protecting victims of domestic violence was adopted by the National Assembly, introducing an aggravating...

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