The Knesset is dissolving. Elections are coming in October. And I am standing in the Mahane Yehuda market with my kids, watching an old Kurdish vendor arrange tangerines next to a Haredi family...
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How Foreign Adversaries Turned Your Righteous Anger Into a Weapon Against You
Every day, millions of people log onto social media absolutely certain they have identified the enemy. Not a political opponent, not someone who sees the world differently, but an irredeemable...
The Billion-Dollar Bill for Campus Bigotry
If you take a look at the current state of the American campus, it’s clear the ivy is finally being stripped off the walls. Not by shame, moral clarity or righteous indignation but rather by a...
Is Israel Losing America? Thanks Bibi.
How Netanyahu’s survival instinct, his embrace of the hard right, and twenty years of partisan choices have destroyed the bipartisan consensus that kept Israel safe, empowered Antisemites on...
TikToker Guy Christensen is a Liar and a Grifter
About this Guy Christensen dude…. For those of you who’ve been living under a rock, or, dodging Iranian missiles like the rest of us here in Jerusalem, Guy is a very white, twenty-year...
Dodging Iranian Missiles in Jerusalem During Shushan Purim
During a 90 minute playdate, the Monkeys and I had to run into the local Nachlaot bomb shelter 3 times! The difference today is that it was Shushan Purim – same as Purim but celebrated a day...
Khamenei Is Confirmed Dead. Cenk Uygur Called It Courage. He’s Wrong.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is dead. Iranian state media confirmed it. Forty days of mourning have been declared by the Islamic Republic. People are setting off fireworks in Tehran, not in mourning but in...
Israel and the US Strike Iran: Notes From Jerusalem
Um… Shabbat Shalom, I guess? Or, since it’s after havdalah now and I can finally sit down and actually write this, Shavua tov. Good week. Let’s hope. I woke up this morning to...