Category: Science and Health

I’ve become a student of that human species I call the Incredibly Serious Trump Hater. A cardinal rule for Incredibly Serious Trump Haters is that one must never give Trump any credit for anything, no exceptions. If by accident Trump does something that looks good, one must immediately change the subject and go right to […]

The Yeshiva University Maccabees edged the Bates Bobcats in the first round of the NCAA Division III Men’s Tournament in a nail-biting 71-69 victory, led by Zevi Samet’s 27 points. Samet, a shooting guard from Monsey, New York, takes his nickname is honor of the Kobe Bryant but plays more like Steph Curry. Samet hit […]

“I’m scared,” the person types. “I can’t sleep. My whole body is shaking.” There was a siren earlier. It’s quiet now, but the fear hasn’t left. It is early evening in Los Angeles, before dinner, when the day has not quite ended yet. But across the ocean in Israel, it is already the deepest part […]

“If you are looking for a black–and-white narrative, you might want to take up checkers,” Thomas Friedman wrote this week in The New York Times. He was referring to the Middle East in general, which he called “a complicated, kaleidoscopic region where religion, oil, tribal politics and great power politics interweave in every major story.” […]

The fourth episode of the Israel Bonds-sponsored ILTV’s digital series, “One-on-One,” brought one of the most urgent and unapologetic voices in Jewish advocacy to the forefront: Emily Austin, a sports journalist, model, entrepreneur, and social media influencer with over three million followers who has made it her mission to be loudly, proudly, and uncompromisingly Jewish. […]

“No president was willing to do what I am willing to do tonight,” boasted President Donald Trump, speaking to the people of Iran shortly after unleashing a joint attack that may have finally ended the theocratic nightmare that has been their miserable fate since 1979. He was right: For nearly half a century, the Iranian […]

Ari Frenkel is in the middle of making a feature film titled “See You on the Other Side” that grew out of grief that has not been resolved. The film is unfinished. The production is ongoing. The fundraising continues. Frenkel describes the project as something that began while he was mourning his father and has […]