As the hours and minutes ticked off on Tuesday, and an anxious world waited for the 8PM EST showdown, rumors began to fly that perhaps the Persian civilization wouldn鈥檛 die that night after all.
Passover gives us a chance to unpack freedom, to see its many sides, to ask the right questions.
The partnership between Cornell and Technion is humanity and academia at their very best. Of course, it鈥檚 also a perfect opportunity for Israel haters to try to take it down.
Just as bad news appears everywhere, so does the algorithm of gratitude. No matter where our life is at, we can find something to be grateful for. There is some magic in that simple idea.
We can’t depend on Jew-haters to unify us. It’s one thing to share common enemies; it’s quite another to share an extraordinary story that connects us through the generations.
After years of terrorizing Israelis with existential threats, the Islamic regime is now worried about its own existence. In a region where the projection of power is everything, that is humiliation.
American Jews have always understood a key lesson of life: even if your victimhood is justified, if you wear it it will kill you.
While one of the world’s most evil regimes is taking a beating, much of the mainstream media, Hollywood and our cultural elite would rather focus on who’s doing the beating.
Most military experts agree that fully replacing an authoritarian theocracy is much more difficult than merely decapitating it.
No matter what happens going forward, something as earth-shattering as the fall of the Soviet Union has already happened in the Middle East.
