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Kelsey Maurine Brickl

Oct 14, 2026, 9:12 PM

Why Evidence Should Outrank Institutional Prestige

We have seen it happen again and again: a viral news story reveals a scandal at a mighty institution long considered high-quality, powerful, and prestigious. The world looks on in shock and speaks out with condemnation. There is a...

Oct 12, 2026, 7:45 PM

From War Room to Pickleball Court

On the morning of October 7, Regev and Lee Harlap woke up in Moshav Ein HaBesor, a community in the Eshkol region near the Gaza border. Like so many Israelis that morning, they first heard the rockets. But very quickly,...

Kelsey Maurine Brickl

Oct 11, 2026, 6:36 AM

Touchdowns, Railroad Barons, and Blood Atonement

Outlined against a blue-gray October sky, the Fighting Irish rode again. In dramatic lore they are known as Famine, Pestilence, Destruction, and Death. On October 10, 2026, they wore gold helmets, and… they kicked Stanford's teeth in, 58–7. Grantland Rice...

Ibrahim Mukherjee

Oct 9, 2026, 2:47 AM

Poetry in Motion – An Ode to Roger Federer.

Poetry in Motion Roger Federer, the psychology of mastery, and what happens inside a point There are athletes who win. There are athletes who dominate. There are athletes who change their sport. And then there are athletes who make you reconsider what the word...

Sep 27, 2026, 2:59 PM

Playing Against a Ghost

Israel's players line up for the Nations League Group B3 soccer match between Austria and Israel in Linz, Austria, Thursday, Sept. 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

The Ireland-Israel fixture and football's selective conscience

Sep 14, 2026, 6:19 PM

WNBA – FIBA – Is it Rife with Racism “Privilege”?

When I first heard about, or rather started paying attention to the WNBA, was a few years ago; after hearing about this Iowa NCAA basketball guard Caitlin Clark. Her ridiculous distance three-point shots and fast paced plays were mesmerizing....

Jul 26, 2026, 6:50 AM

Treasure Trove: Camp Ramah in Canada, Hockey’s Herzl Cup and Peace for Israel

Photograph by Noah Chaikof, used with permission.

There is no evidence that Theodor Herzl (1860-1904), the visionary of the State of Israel and the founder of the Zionist movement, knew anything about hockey. However, he would be proud to know that there are a number of...

Jonathan A. Greenblatt

Jul 21, 2026, 6:32 PM

Every Flag But One

For a few weeks every four years, people across borders, languages and faiths organize their lives around the same 90 minutes. We see strangers embrace over a goal. Flags of nations thousands of miles apart wave side by side...

Jul 20, 2026, 6:49 PM

Israel now needs to stop hiding in European football

Israel continues to play in a European confederation where it is unwanted by a growing number of member associations, where its home matches have been moved to neutral venues due to security concerns, and where its presence increasingly feels less like integration than like asylum. (AI-generated).

I watched the World Cup final on Sunday evening – Spain suffocating Argentina 1-0 on a Ferran Torres strike deep into extra time, Messi ghosting through what was almost certainly his last major tournament, Emiliano Martínez making eleven saves...

Jul 20, 2026, 5:00 AM

Zionist’s Guide to the World Cup–Day 374

To paraphrase Thomas Carlyle once more: History bids her mute adieu to the 2026 World Cup. When the 2022 World Cup in Qatar concluded, the Zionist's Guide to the World Cup (ZGWC) noted the hypocrisy of the world enjoying its...

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