A tale of two California cities
Primary election season is underway in many parts of the country. As Democrats and Republicans vie for their party’s endorsement for the general election,...
Bad timing
The current Israeli coalition government led by Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid has exceeded everyone’s expectations. But it is now...
Deadly ghost guns
Ghost guns are unserialized, unregistered and untraceable firearms that are bought in pieces and can be assembled at home. They are a worrisome addition...
More tremors in the shaky coalition
Could Israel’s rightward-leaning parties — who have historically been the strongest advocates for the settler movement — find themselves in the position of causing...
A Plan B for Iran?
With President Joe Biden’s decision to keep Iran’s paramilitary Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on the State Department list of terrorist organizations, the administration...
Mass murder continues
We have had enough. We struggle to find the right words. We simply cannot understand the insistence by gun advocates that civilians need access...
New partners in NATO
For decades, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) seemed like a relic of the Cold War era. Created in 1949 by the United States,...
The Squad unveiled
It is not unusual for bystanders to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict to make pronouncements that are more focused on “scoring points” than on bringing Israelis...
Political self-preservation
The recent return of the Ra’am Islamic party to Israel’s precariously balanced government shows just how significantly political self-preservation motivates the members of the...
Collective punishment for looking Jewish
We struggle to contain our indignation. The story is upsetting. The video is chilling. The apology was milquetoast. Lufthansa Airlines blew it. But very...
