Monthly Archives: March 2022

At least two members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps had planned to assassinate former National Security Advisor John Bolton, a U.S. Justice Department official told the Washington Examiner. The official said evidence exists to indict...

“Deterrence is not just a matter of military capabilities. It has a great deal to do with perceptions of credibility.” – Herman Kahn, Thinking About the Unthinkable in the 1980s (1984) Abstract: Theoretic assessments of Israel’s nuclear strategy –...

Purim, which is celebrated on the 14th day of the Jewish month of Adar (this year starting on March 16), commemorates the saving of the Jewish people from Haman’s plot to kill the region’s...

Former Israeli finance minister Avraham Hirschson died on Monday at the age of 81. Hirschson served as a member of Knesset for both the Likud and Kadima parties between 1981 and 1984, and again from...

Like all knocking-on-open-door phenomena, the annual hoopla surrounding International Women’s Day on March 8 is celebrated most where it’s not required: in Western democracies. Israel is no exception. To mark the utterly pointless fest, Israel’s Channel...

Americans are so polarized that even when almost everyone basically agrees about something, their instincts tell them to distrust it. That’s what’s happening in the discussion about Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine. Virtually...

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin for the second time in recent days. According to the Kremlin, Putin discussed with the Israeli leader Moscow’s assessment of the third round of...

The European Council recently announced measures it will adopt to combat racism and anti-Semitism, which include urging social-media companies to remove racist and anti-Semitic hate speech and adopting the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) working definition of anti-Semitism. These...

Hillel at Indiana University launched a project to distribute free mezuzah cases on campus as a show of solidarity with the Jewish community against anti-Semitism. The red mezuzahs, which have a sticker on them that says “I stand...

Former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence met on Tuesday with Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett at the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem. The two discussed the nuclear agreement with Iran taking shape in Vienna and...