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David Rosenthal

Aug 17, 2026, 11:42 AM

From Petro to De la Espriella

Abelardo de la Espriella’s inauguration as president of Colombia, held on Friday the 7th in Cali, presented a scene that sums up the country’s change of course better than any speech: Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar, seated next to...

Aug 10, 2026, 8:17 AM

Israel Is Surrounded Today. Are You Aware of What Comes Next?

Since October 2023, Israel has fought on six fronts: Gaza, Lebanon, Yemen, Syria, Iraq, and Iran. Five of them were not countries in any useful sense. They were militias holding ground inside countries, armed and paid from the same...

Silas Anastacio

Aug 9, 2026, 6:32 AM

Over 200 People Join CIP Dialogues on the Risks of a Third World War

More than 200 people took part on Sunday, August 2, in another edition of Dialogues – CIP’s Cycle of Meetings, which brought together political scientist and geopolitics expert Heni Ozi Cukier and Rabbi Michel Schlesinger to discuss the geopolitical...

Aug 4, 2026, 8:35 PM

Undaunted: The Sixth Rebbe in the Jewish Civil War

Cover of "Undaunted."

The 2025 book Undaunted: How the Sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe Rabbi Josef Yitzhak Schneersohn Saved Russian Jewry, Reimagined American Judaism and Ignited a Global Jewish Renaissance, covers an enormous amount of ground, all of it backed by extensive endnotes. Rabbi...

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...

Nikolai Kolya Nakhshunov

Jul 28, 2026, 12:07 AM

An Israeli Artist against Putin’s Propaganda

Moshe Shamah. Laughter Enkindles. Series: To Those Who Fight For Life

Propaganda is a means of war aimed at the civilians. Despite the distinctions between war, armed conflict and a “special military operation” becoming blurred, propaganda continues to portray a common existential enemy that is both pitiful and all-powerful. In...

Alexander Lutsenko

Jul 27, 2026, 12:49 PM

Ukraine’s Fiber-Optic Drone War Is Already Reaching Israel

A Ukrainian investigation shows how Russia scaled FPV drones that cannot be stopped by ordinary electronic warfare. China supplies the industrial ecosystem behind them — while Hezbollah is already applying the same battlefield logic against Israel. A battlefield covered in...

David Rosenthal

Jul 21, 2026, 6:47 AM

The Rebuilding of the Bogotá-Jerusalem Axis

A nation’s foreign policy is often more enduring than short-term political circumstances. Governments change; national interests remain. It is against this backdrop that we should understand the eventual rebuilding of relations between Colombia and Israel—a strategic alliance forged over...

Jul 14, 2026, 11:05 AM

Halakha’s Kármán Line: Imagined and Real Jews in Space

Ilan Ramon, November 2001, NASA, https://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/missions/sts-107/images/high/KSC-02PP-0490.jpg, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ilan_Ramon,_NASA_photo_portrait_in_orange_suit.jpg, cropped

In the late 1960s or early 1970s, when Rabbi Solomon B. Freehof – the most prolific author of responsa in the American Reform movement – was asked for sources in Jewish law in preparation for “a discussion of the...

Alexander Lutsenko

Jul 12, 2026, 9:42 PM

Russia wages a battle against Israel over Jewish heritage in Judea and Samaria

Russia’s New Front Against Israel: The Struggle Over Jewish Heritage in Judea and Samaria. Illustration made with AI.

Russia has found another way to challenge Israel, and this time the battlefield is not military, diplomatic, or economic. It is archaeological. On July 9, 2026, the Rescue Archaeology Center of the Institute for the History of Material Culture of...

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