Daily Archives: July 18, 2025
What Hamas Taught Mamdani: Lessons in Populist Propaganda and Totalitarian Takeover
Zohran Mamdani’s 2025 campaign for New York City mayor, framed as a progressive crusade for economic justice, bears conspicuous similarities to Hamas’s 2006 electoral campaign in the Palestinian legislative and presidential elections. Both Mamdani and Hamas’s...
From Arafat to Paramount
In September 1993, while on IDF Reserve duty in Har Eval overlooking Nablus, the IDF distributed its monthly newsletter to the troops.
There was a surprising feature this time, describing a new peace profile of...
Curses – ancient and modern
It is amazing how very often the weekly Torah portion that we read in Synagogues on Shabbat contains startling messages so highly relevant to our current situation.
This past Shabbat, Jewish communities around the world...
The rabbi who knew the real reason for Arik Sharon’s “Disengagement”
The death of the Chief Rabbi Emeritus of Haifa, Rabbi Shaar-Yashuv Cohen, brings to mind the most stirring episodes in the history of the modern State of Israel.
Rav Shaar-Yashuv Cohen, wounded in the battle for the...








