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Jun 11, 2026, 10:25 PM

A Tired Nation Cannot Dream

For most of Israel’s history exhaustion was not an option. The generation that founded the state drained swamps, built roads, fought wars, buried friends, welcomed refugees, and somehow still found the energy to imagine a future that did not yet...

Jun 9, 2026, 11:15 PM

The Israel I Heard on a Mountaintop

John Boyd Thacher Park in New York's Helderberg Mountains. (Photo Credit: "Discover Albany"--https://www.albany.org/listing/john-boyd-thacher-state-park/1967/)

In June 1967, a high school friend and I spent six consecutive nights driving from our homes in Albany, New York, to the top of John Boyd Thacher Park in the Helderberg Mountains. We arrived just before midnight carrying...

Jun 5, 2026, 9:04 PM

Treasure Trove: Let the Opportunity for Peace Not Fall From Our Hands (1967)

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

The six days of the Six Day War were June 5 to 10, 1967. In this edition of Life Magazine, the war was described as astounding and Israel as “a country still suspended between a nightmare and a dream,...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

May 2, 2026, 9:46 PM

Sweida Druze Flag Israel’s Buffer Zone

United States envoy Tom Barrack told the Antalya Diplomacy Forum on April 17, 2026, that the Middle East only functions under powerful leadership regimes — benevolent monarchies or monarchial republics. Everything else, he said, faded away after the Arab...

Apr 23, 2026, 3:02 PM

Not Improbable, Impossible

One of my favorite things about Shabbat is I get to step off the world and spend time alone with my Creator, my family and my friends. Today, for just a few minutes I want to turn off the...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Apr 21, 2026, 7:32 AM

Israel Keeps Golan as Syria Joins Abraham Accords

With Israel and Lebanon working towards a longstanding peaceful settlement and neutralizing Hezbollah’s terrorist machinery, the moment has arrived for a full normalization with Syria too. This means diplomatic recognition, economic ties, and a strategic partnership under the Abraham...

Apr 20, 2026, 3:08 PM

The Iran War & Artemis II: The Spiritual Dimension

With Earth setting in the background, humanity and the crew of Artemis II see portions of the far side of the Moon for the first time. (NASA, public domain)

The current war in Iran and the launch of Artemis II to the Moon have spiritual dimensions that are overlooked by world media, but which have profound significance that Hashem would not have us be ignorant of. That they...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Feb 6, 2026, 5:42 AM

Sinai Is Being Re-Armed—and the West Is Asleep

For forty years, the Sinai Peninsula was not demilitarized out of goodwill. It was stripped of heavy force because history proved that when massed armies sit across from each other in the Middle East, war is not a question...

Feb 5, 2026, 6:49 AM

Blame, Reality and the Middle East Narrative

photo Credits: Sabine Sterk(AI)

Blame, Reality and the Middle East Narrative: In today’s Middle Eastern conflict, Israel and Jews are routinely blamed for violence and war. Pro Palestinian activists often claim that Islam is a religion of peace and that Muslims are primarily victims...

Nov 14, 2025, 8:21 PM

Wars Are Not Fought for Land. They Are Fought for Meaning.

The battlefield of meaning: A war fought with tanks and rifles always begins with words, symbols, and competing narratives. Image © Ivan Bassov, 2025. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.

Understanding War as a Struggle Over Symbols, Not Territory On the surface, wars look deceptively simple: contests over land, resources, or security. That is the language of diplomatic communiqués, the vocabulary of school textbooks, the neat abstractions of geopolitics. But...

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