Daily Archives: August 7, 2019
The Israeli gun culture and approach to preventing mass shootings
Mass shootings are nothing new in the United States, but their sudden rise is ballooning into a shocking nationwide epidemic. Many blame a toxic political culture that is accentuating divisions rather than commonalities between...
California curriculum shows the price of complacency about BDS
While many in the Jewish world have been sounding the alarm about the threat from the BDS movement, others have said the concern about this issue has been overstated. Some have pointed out that...
Condensing Our Victimhood (Tisha Be’Av 5779)
Tisha Be’Av is not only the saddest Jewish holiday, it’s also the ultimate Jewish jinx. According to the Mishna (Ta’anit 4:6), five calamities happened to the Jewish People on that fateful day: Moses’ Spies...
August 8, 1925: A Show of Strength for the KKK
Forty thousand members of the Ku Klux Klan marched down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington DC in full regalia on this date in 1925.
The "Invisible Empire" boasted some 4 million members at this time and...
Après l’arraisonnement par l’Iran du pétrolier britannique, de hauts responsables iraniens réaffirment que le...
Le 4 juillet 2019, les forces britanniques arrêtaient un pétrolier iranien à Gibraltar. Le 19 juillet, des forces de commandos du Corps des gardiens de la Révolution islamique (CGRI) arraisonnaient un pétrolier vide sous...