4+ hour, 26+ min ago   (830+ words) The death of conservative icon Charlie Kirk has prompted more than mourning. It has triggered a profound reckoning about the future of the American conservative movement, one that played out in real time at Turning Point USA's recent AmericaFest convention....

14+ hour, 55+ min ago   (360+ words) Lockdown" was released in 2024 on Shyfrin Alliance's album, Upside Down Blues." During the COVID lockdown of 2019-2020, the world fell silent, and it seemed that the only sound heard was the siren of ambulances. Hospitals were overwhelmed, and dread, anxiety, and…...

16+ hour, 38+ min ago   (379+ words) If all time is eternally present, all time is unredeemable." " T. S. Eliot, Burnt Norton Whatever its ongoing strategic and tactical challenges, Israel will need aptly nuanced understandings of time. This means more than refining traditional defense-community notions of clock time" " for…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (648+ words) I recently caught up with my friend Fleur Hassan-Nahoum, former deputy mayor of Jerusalem, for coffee and a stroll through the Rova (the Old City's Jewish Quarter). By the time we made it to the rooftop of Aish overlooking the…...

1+ day, 16+ hour ago   (571+ words) The whole world must see that Israel must exist and has a right to exist " and is one of the great outposts of democracy in the world." These are the words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a towering voice…...

1+ day, 17+ hour ago   (478+ words) Following the 40th anniversary of the premiere of Claude Lanzmann's landmark documentary, Shoah, the Jerusalem Cinematheque is featuring a tribute to the filmmaker and his work from January 14-29. Shoah will be screened in two parts on different evenings. I saw it…...

1+ day, 18+ hour ago   (576+ words) Last week, I took my entire congressional staff to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. It was not a ceremonial stop or a symbolic outing: It was a deliberate act of education and responsibility. Everyone who serves in government should…...

1+ day, 23+ hour ago   (1076+ words) The Red Village (Krasnaya Sloboda) in Azerbaijan is a destination that feels almost mythical. It is the only place in the world outside Israel whose entire population is Jewish. For Jewish travelers, that fact alone is magnetic, but it is…...

2+ day, 48+ min ago   (1100+ words) I left Australia with sand still in my shoes and the sound of the Pacific in my ears. Bondi does that to you. It disarms you. It convinces you that this is a place beyond the darkness of the world,…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago   (654+ words) Ask most people today what Zionism is, and you'll hear familiar answers: a belief in Israel's right to exist, a response to antisemitism, a refuge after the Holocaust, or a synonym for Jewish religion with a flag attached. All of…...