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Natasha H. Pein

Jul 5, 2026, 11:35 AM

250 Years of Freedom: Don’t Take It for Granted

250 Years of American Freedom

This Fourth of July is unlike any other. America is celebrating 250 years of freedom. It is 250 years since a bold nation declared that liberty was worth fighting for and that people were born with rights no government could...

Jul 2, 2026, 8:52 PM

Echoes of Pinchas: When Violence Claims Divine Approval

A few years ago, Ami Eshed, the police chief of Tel Aviv, resigned from his position, saying he was forced out for political reasons because he refused to use violence against protestors. He said: “I could have easily used disproportionate...

Jun 11, 2026, 1:18 PM

The Sultan’s Algorithm

Turkey and Transnational Illiberalism. AI Illustration. (Credit: ChatGPT)

Turkey, Transnational Illiberalism, and the Poverty of Our Political Vocabulary There is a particular kind of danger that arrives not as an army but as a narrative, one that does not breach a border so much as dissolve the very...

Jun 10, 2026, 7:26 AM

The Victims Nobody Wants to See

Photo Credits: Sabine Sterk (AI)

The Selective Moral Compass: Why Global Tragedies Are Ignored Until They Can Be Blamed on Jews It is a mind blowing reality of modern journalism that the most severe humanitarian crises in the world are routinely dismissed as irrelevant. Day...

Sagit Alkobi Fishman

Jun 4, 2026, 10:40 AM

Gaza’s women get lost in the argument about them

A woman watches as Palestinians retrieve items from the rubble of a destroyed building following overnight Israeli army bombardment on al-Shati camp for Palestinian refugees, west of Gaza City, on September 12, 2025. (Photo by Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)

Girls are being handed to older men and women forced to trade sex for food. But instead of trying to protect them, we debate which side is to blame

Jun 1, 2026, 6:09 PM

Raviv Drucker and prime-time himpathy for rapists

In 2022, a woman walked into a police station and reported that she was raped. Although her name was publicly known while she begged the justice system to investigate her case, the man’s name was kept secret under a...

Daphne Lazar Price

May 28, 2026, 8:58 PM

The Bitter Waters and the Fear of Women’s Learning

“A man who teaches his daughter Torah teaches her tiflut.” Mishna Sotah 3:4 The Hebrew word tiflut has been translated in a number of ways: foolishness, obscenity, frivolity, impropriety, even promiscuity. None of the translations are flattering. For generations, this language...

May 14, 2026, 6:17 AM

A silence still heard

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By now, one has either heard of the extensive sexual violence committed against women in Israel by Hamas, or one has chosen to live under the most apathetic rock. In the seemingly never ending saga of shedding light on...

May 13, 2026, 6:41 AM

298 Pages of Evidence. The New York Times Ran the Other Story.

On the night before the most comprehensive evidentiary reckoning with Hamas’s documented, command-directed sexual terrorism, the New York Times ran an opinion column by Nicholas Kristof titled The Silence That Meets the Rape of Palestinians. The timing was not...

May 13, 2026, 4:14 AM

Facing Amalek: The Unveiled Horrors of October 7

There are moments in history so horrifying that language itself begins to fail. After reading the newly released report documenting the atrocities committed on October 7, I found myself unable to speak. Not because there was nothing to say, but...

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