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Hamas won

Hamas has won the war it started on Oct. 7. How could I possibly say this? Thousands of Hamas fighters have been killed. An undetermined number of its terror tunnels...

Definite dead ends in Gaza, and a possible long term solution

Who should rule a post-war Gaza? Not the PA, not Hamas, not Israel. Who then? One possibility: a temporary international consortium of countries with a direct...

Stalinism returns

When I cracked open Beyond the Wall, a new book about East Germany, I didn’t expect it to resonate so srongly with current events.

One messenger…another messenger…

The double tragedy involving a soldier making a split second decision in the heat and fog of battle, mistakenly killing three hostages who, after 70 days in captivity,...

Releasing the emotional numbness of Oct. 7

Since Oct. 8, I have been emotionally numbed. Little did I imagine it would take a transatlantic trip to Colorado for the deep freeze of my emotions to thaw, at least...

Jealousy

The lady says, “Cut!” Cut the child in two. 
 It screams from within the famous story exemplifying King Solomon’s wisdom, which is read this week as the haftarah...

Harmony in unharmonius times

I was in New York recently to see a jolly round of nine shows. A surprise favorite was the musical, “Harmony,” about the Comedian Harmonists, an internationally...

‘Genocide of Muslims’ at Harvard ‘depends on context’

Higher education has become lower education. Without excusing the universities for their own moral dumbing down and pervasive moral relativism, their inability to...

Theatre of the absurd

The more information we have, the stupider we get, it seems. Back when I worked in academia, specifically on international relations websites, this was a hot topic. The...

On behalf of Jewish destiny

I write this column on the fifth candle of Chanukah — the candle that tips the even number of candles lit. According to chasidic teaching, this is the candle that...