In summer 2010, rabbis led Nathan Hochman and his son Tyler into a small apartment in Sderot, Israel, belonging to a man who lost his leg in a Hamas attack but could not afford a functioning wheelchair. It was one stop in a journey across Israel for Tyler’s bar mitzvah project of raising funds for […]
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In the early hours of Saturday, Israel launched a series of airstrikes on multiple military targets in Iran, marking a significant escalation in regional tensions. The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) stated that the “precise strikes” targeted strategic military sites, including drone and ballistic missile manufacturing facilities and air defense batteries. This operation was a direct […]
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From: ARITHMETIC ON THE FRONTIER: No proposition Euclid wrote No formulae the textbooks know Will turn the bullet from your coat Onward the tulwar’s downward blow *** A scrimmage at a border station A canter down some dark defile Two thousand pounds of education Drops to a ten-rupee jezail. – Kipling No, O Best Beloved, […]
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Wikipedia editors have decided to impose a near total ban on the use of the “Hamas-run” qualifier in articles citing the Gaza Health Ministry’s numbers. A formal discussion known as a Request for Comment (RfC) was launched in July; in RfCs, editors put in their “!votes” supporting their stated position on a contested issue and […]
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People tend to assume that everyone is more or less the same around the world— that members of other societies all think like us, have the same values, yearn for the same things. After all, they’ll say, everyone presumably hopes to live in peace and security with basic notions of justice. Yet, having just commemorated […]
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Chef, cookbook author and dinner-party aficionado Jake Cohen believes cooking should be easy, fun and shared with others. That message comes out loud and clear in his new show, “Jake Makes It Easy.” “[With cooking] there are tasks that take time or require patience or even experience in terms of practice,” Cohen told the Journal. […]
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In September of 1970, the Rolling Stones told the world to “Get Yer Ya-Yas Out.” Thrice Chai years later, the Israeli Defense Forces did exactly that. A precision strike rendered Yahya no more. The man whose surname comprised the words sin and war has now become a true environmentalist by involuntarily becoming one with Mother […]
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In a confidential report from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to officials working on the country’s nuclear program, the supreme leader Ali Khamenei’s desired course of action is outlined. It asserts that while the regime’s missile capabilities are a significant factor in the “deterrence power of the Islamic Republic,” considering the “ongoing regional conflict” […]
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In 2008, Yahya Sinwar, the mastermind of the October 7 massacre in southern Israel, underwent a surgical procedure to remove a tumor from his brain—in an Israeli hospital! Yes, I know: Sometimes Jews should have their heads examined. We’re constantly told by shrieking Jew-haters that Israel has genocidal intent in Gaza. Yet, they cured the […]
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The elimination of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, the unrepentant mastermind of the darkest day in Israel’s history, brought a collective sigh of relief. The human embodiment of evil is now gone. Sinwar was especially evil because he sacrificed the lives of his own people in the service of his holy mission: eliminating the Jewish state, […]
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