Daily Archives: November 6, 2025
Christians protest Amsterdam venue’s Chanukah boycott
Leaders of Dutch Christian Zionists protested on Thursday in Amsterdam against the Royal Concert Hall’s decision to cancel a Chanukah concert because it features a cantor who serves in Israel’s army.
Separately, France’s culture minister,...
Pope Leo holds first meeting with PA chief Abbas in Rome
Pope Leo XIV met with Mahmoud Abbas in Rome on Thursday, in the pontiff’s first in-person meeting with the Palestinian Authority chief since assuming the papacy in May.
The pope and Abbas previously spoke over the...
Kazakhstan to join Abraham Accords
Kazakhstan is reportedly joining the Abraham Accords, a set of agreements between Israel and Arab states, which U.S. President Donald Trump began brokering nearly five years ago in his first term.
“Is anyone getting tired...
Israel deports foreign activist who supports Hamas
The Israel Police announced on Thursday that a “foreign activist” had been deported the previous day over support for the Hamas terrorist organization.
“As part of a focused operation by Judea and Samaria District detectives,...
Iranian terror cell that allegedly targeted Jews arrested in Europe
An Afghan national was arrested in Denmark on Wednesday on suspicion of taking part in an Iranian plot to attack Jewish targets in Germany, the Associated Press reported.
The suspect, identified only as Tawab M. due to...
NBA: Deni Avdija rallies Portland to 121-119 win over Oklahoma City
Israeli basketball player Deni Avdija led the Portland Trail Blazers on Wednesday night to a tight win over Oklahoma City Thunder, handing the defending NBA champions their first loss of the season.
Avdija rallied Portland...
Israel declares Egypt border closed military zone
Israel has declared the area along its 130-mile border with Egypt a closed military zone to combat smuggling, Defense Minister Israel Katz’s office said on Thursday.
Katz’s order is designed to “turn the border-adjacent area...
The Literary Grounds of Capitalism
Forasmuch as capitalism by far isn’t a philosophy nor a science (1), that is, a system that must needs have stony epistemological grounds, sound signaled trodden methods, the precisest colourful expressions, and ever-guiding north-aster...
Trump, Nuclear Intuition, and the Looming Risk of Global Catastrophe
“The blood-dimmed tide is loosed…” - William Butler Yeats, The Second Coming
The connection is easy to recognize. With his seat-of-the-pants policies on nuclear weapons and nuclear testing, Donald Trump is heightening prospects of a...
My Father’s Service: A Memorial Day Salute
My father’s service was undistinguished.
After learning to repair radios,
He was transferred
To the quartermasters corp.
He spent the war shlepping.
There were some benefits.
As it allowed him to help
His cousins who survived
The war, hiding in Paris.
He helped...