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Anti-Israel ‘Hague Group’ requires scrutiny

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South African President Cyril Ramaphosa’s Feb. 25 article in  Foreign Policy—co-written by Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, Colombia President Gustavo Petro and Varsha Gandikota-Nellutla, a left-wing policy adviser and co-general coordinator of Progressive International—spreads...
Children at the Pardes Jewish Day School in Scottsdale, Ariz., play on covered equipment, July 2023. Credit: Courtesy.

Reassessing Jewish education amid unprecedented antisemitism

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The late Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks once wrote: “To defend a country, you need an army. But to defend a civilization, you need schools.” In an era of skyrocketing antisemitism, these words resonate more powerfully...
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) addresses an estimated 200,000 at the “March for Israel” rally in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 14, 2023. Source: Screenshot.

Democrats still wobbly on antisemitism

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As the Trump administration takes an aggressive stand against antisemitism by withdrawing $400 million in grants from Columbia University, seeking to deport a pro-Hamas leader of campus protests at Columbia in the United States...

Leftist Jews protest deportation of Hamas supporter who terrorized Columbia

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Last year, Mahmoud Khalil gave an interview to a Hamas media operation about his “negotiations” with Columbia University during protesters' occupation of the campus. The violent occupation of Columbia by terrorist supporters led to riots, vandalism, assaults,...

Sovereignty and Immortality: Deciphering the Ultimate Promise of World Politics

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Human beings rarely participate in world politics directly, but they do get involved as individual members of separate sovereign states. Normally, the expected costs and benefits of such indirect participation remain tangible expressions of...

Geometries of Chaos: America’s Future in World Politics

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“Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.” –T.S. Eliot, The Family Reunion (1939) Normally, geometry and chaos are mutually exclusive. Still, when applied to complex considerations...
A sign congratulating U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on his victory in the election, in central Jerusalem, Nov. 7, 2024. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Trust Trump on Israel? Hypocritical Biden-Harris supporters say ‘no’

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Kingsley Wilson should never have gotten a job in the Trump administration. The heretofore obscure conservative activist provided plenty of fodder for President Donald Trump’s critics this week when it was discovered that she has a...
Israeli President Isaac Herzog comforts Rachel Goldberg-Polin, the mother of Hersh Goldberg-Polin, 23, who was captured on Oct. 7, 2023, by Hamas terrorists and murdered by them in the Gaza Strip in August 2024, at Hersh's funeral on Sept. 2, 2024. Credit: Maayan Toaf/Spokesperson unit of the President of Israel via Wikimedia Commons.

A living example of extraordinary, ordinary faith

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As Jews, we read about faith all the time. We study Torah and learn the stories of our forebears—men and women of deep conviction who faced epic tests and challenges, yet maintained their belief,...
Israeli military personnel are seen near the entrance to Kibbutz Be'eri on Oct. 9, 2023. Photo by Yossi Zamir/Flash90.

The Oct. 7 catastrophe of the Israeli army

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Eyal Zamir, the new chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces, embodies the composed strength of the tank corps—resolute, methodical and enduring. Unlike the aerial acrobatics of fighter pilots or the tactical ingenuity...
Glass window with a Jewish star. Credit: Nadine Doerle/Pixabay.

The fault line that runs through American Jewry

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Much has been made of the perceived disappearing act of the American Jewish community. Surveys indicate plummeting marriage and birth rates, rampant intermarriage and a lessening affinity with Israel. These indicia have set off alarm...