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Civis Americanus Sum
Outrage dissipates with time. Left unattended, the aggrieved become inured. Allow wrongdoers to go unpunished and forgiveness is presumed. The once extraordinary, improbably, becomes quite ordinary. The moral universe demands justice, but not the...
Beware distinguished professors rewriting history
What are the reasons why 140,000 Jews living in the storied 2,600-year-old Babylonian community—the oldest Jewish diaspora—have dwindled to just three people? The vast majority of the community left between 1950 and 1951 after...
Noa and Leah: Victims of the same jihad
The face of a slave is—or should be—unforgettable.
On Oct. 7, graphic, heartrending videos circulated social media, but none seemed crueler than the video of a screaming Noa Argamani, begging not to be killed, her arm reaching...
Netanyahu said to be preparing to fire Gallant, appoint Gideon Sa’ar as defense minister
Expanding Israel’s coalition government will help advance a hostages-for-ceasefire deal with Hamas, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday amid reports that he is considering replacing Defense Minister Yoav Gallant with New Hope...
Lebanon: Some 2,700 Hezbollah terrorists hurt, 9 killed by exploding pagers
More than 2,700 Hezbollah terrorists were wounded and at least nine were killed across Lebanon on Tuesday when their communication devices exploded, Lebanese Health Minister Firass Abiad confirmed.
Approximately 200 Hezbollah terrorists were in critical...
Bari Weiss bullish on Jewish allies: ‘Our job is to show up for them,...
When the world saw a swell of support for Hamas after the terror organization attacked Jewish communities in southern Israel on Oct. 7, it was a “secondary catastrophe,” the journalist Bari Weiss, founder of...
Hostage’s mother reveals audio recording of her son in Gaza
The mother of Matan Engrest, an Israeli soldier being held captive by Hamas in the Gaza Strip, revealed at a demonstration on Saturday a short audio clip of her son recovered by the Israel...
A sweet taste of old meets new this Rosh Hashana
Sometimes, what’s old is new again. That certainly applies to classic Jewish recipes, many jotted down by home cooks—moms, aunts, grandmoms, great-grandmothers—who didn’t add specific measurements or even the temperatures at which to bake...
Afghanistan and Gaza: Tragedy and farce
Keen-eyed readers of this column will know that I am fond of occasionally quoting Karl Marx’s observation that history repeats itself, “the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.” In those lines...
US hypocrisy marks the anniversary of Mahsa Amini’s murder
In his press briefing on Friday, U.S. State Department spokesman Matthew Miller was asked about how the Biden administration is responding to the dire situation for women in the Islamic Republic. The journalist referred...