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Category Archives: Israel
WP: As Christians are attacked in Israel, government shows little concern
However hard Christians have it in Israel, they are usually safer there than any other place in the Middle East*. Here’s a universal principle that applies to this story: The more you love your religion and your people, the more … Continue reading
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Edward Wadie Said (1935-2003)
Edward Said was a founder of postcolonial studies and a leading literary critic, cultural theorist, public intellectual, and political activist of the late twentieth century. His 1978 book Orientalism remade the humanities. In it he argues that Western scholarship, literature, … Continue reading
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The Conquest of the Creature
A man in black silk sits at the head of a long table. The hall holds thousands. They stand on tiered benches, packed shoulder to shoulder, and they watch his hands. When he lifts a piece of bread the room … Continue reading
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The Index of His Father
A boy of eighteen sits at a table at Yeshivat HaNegev in 1971. Five volumes lie open in front of him, his father’s responsa, the printed verdicts of Yabia Omer. He reads a ruling, finds its heart, sets it down … Continue reading
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The Hero System That Says Its Name: Moshe Hillel Hirsch and the Greatness of Man
The climb up Rechov Ben Pesachya in Bnei Brak goes steep. At the top sits the Slabodka yeshiva, and most evenings, after Maariv, an old man walks into a room where a line already waits. He turned eighty-nine this past … Continue reading
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Who Keeps the People Alive: A Hero-System Essay on Rabbi Dov Lando
Rabbi Dov Lando (b. 1930) walks into the military prison at Beit Lid in the summer of 2025. He is in his mid-nineties. The military police approve the visit, which tells you something about who he is, since a prison … Continue reading
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The Man Who Priced The Long Run
He stands at the head of the cabinet table on December 4, 2025, and asks a room of armed men to fear the future the way he fears it. The 2026 budget sits in front of the ministers. Defense spending … Continue reading
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The Return
Aryeh Deri (b. 1959) sits at the faction table in the Knesset, a black hat among black hats, and counts. Eleven seats. Enough to hold a government up or let it drop. The talk at the table runs to food … Continue reading
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Redemption Has an Address: The Hero System of Bezalel Smotrich
A man stands on a hilltop in the West_Bank at first light. Below him the terraces fall away, olive trees gone silver, a road, a few roofs of a Palestinian village, the haze over the coastal plain where most of … Continue reading
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Itamar Ben-Gvir and the Two Terrors
October 1995. A reporter holds a microphone toward a thin young man with a knitted skullcap and a grin he cannot suppress. In his hand he holds a chrome ornament, the kind that rides the hood of a luxury car. … Continue reading
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