Monthly Archives: August 2025

Traditional first-line treatments for PTSD, such as medication and talk therapy, succeed less than half the time. In contrast, Stella reports a success rate of 68% to 78%. 

MEDIA LINE Could a Simple Injection Rewire PTSD in Israel? Maayan Hoffman August 24, 2025 …Jason Blankfield, special forces IDF combat veteran and Stella general manager, explained to The Media Line that the way PTSD is understood has shifted dramatically … Continue reading

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Inside the civil war between the Ivy League and the South

THE ATLANTIC The Elite-University Presidents Who Despise One Another Rose Horowitch August 11, 2025 The leaders of America’s elite universities are required, by the borderline-masochistic, semi-impossible nature of their job, to be skilled in the art of performative comity. So … Continue reading

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In Khan Yunis and elsewhere in Gaza, there is no surgical way to fight an enemy that tunnels beneath your feet and hides behind patients’ walls.

JNS When hospitals become battlefields: The strain on Israeli soldiers Shlomo Dubnov August 27, 2025 The headlines coming from the Gaza Strip on Aug. 26 told a grim story: A strike near Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis left roughly 20 … Continue reading

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Pro-Hamas Guardian serves up more lies and international media repeat as usual

CAMERA Guardian “83%” civilian death toll claim is farcial Adam Levick August 24, 2025 A Guardian cover story promoted a claim so clearly false that even those of us who are rarely shocked anymore by what’s published at the anti-Zionist project … Continue reading

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French Foreign Ministry summons U.S. ambassador in response to his missive, published in Wall Street Journal

JEWISH INSIDER Charles Kushner rebukes Macron for ‘dramatic’ rise in antisemitism in France Melissa Weiss August 25, 2025 U.S. Ambassador to France Charles Kushner on Sunday penned an open letter to French President Emmanuel Macron, published in The Wall Street … Continue reading

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In a historic meeting in Julis, Israel’s Chief Rabbi David Yosef, Druze Sheikh Mowafaq Tarif, and Christian and Muslim leaders pledged unity, sanctity of life, and solidarity for peace

ARUTZ SHEVA Jewish, Druze, Christian, and Muslim leaders unite for peace in Israel August 28, 2025 The Chief Rabbinate of Israel and the Interior Ministry initiated a historic meeting on Wednesday between Sephardic Chief Rabbi David Yosef, Druze spiritual leader … Continue reading

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The Democratic Party is increasingly failing the “Israel Test” because their ideology is fundamentally at odds with the values that made America and their own party historically strong.

JERUSALEM POST Mamdani and the Israel test of the Democratic party Adam Milstein August 20, 2025 …After years of ideological indoctrination by foreign powers, Democrats are increasingly viewing Israel not as a trusted ally but as an oppressor, colonizer, and … Continue reading

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Florida won’t tolerate discriminatory DEI, critical theory and antisemitism in higher ed.

WALL STREET JOURNAL The Stop WOKE Act Makes Florida Campuses Safe for Jews Marc Sarnoff August 22, 2025 …In Florida, free speech doesn’t mean the right to shut down classes or menace classmates. In early 2024 Mr. DeSantis warned administrators … Continue reading

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Gee, ya think? “Twenty-six lawmakers call for removal of coordinator who warned that hostile policies toward Israel fuel antisemitism in Europe”

ISRAEL HAYOM EU antisemitism coordinator faces ouster campaign after defending Israel Nissan Shtrauchler August 22, 2025 A campaign by European Parliament members seeking to dismiss the EU’s antisemitism coordinator is intensifying after she warned that hostile policies toward Israel contribute … Continue reading

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The UJA’s $1 million Gaza donation isn’t about the money. It’s a choice between pandering to Jews defined by their unease or standing with the untroubled few who will carry Jewish life forward.

TABLET MAG The Troubled and the Committed Liel Leibovitz August 21, 2025 …If you’ve so much as dipped your toe in Jewish communal life this past decade or so, you know precisely who the troubled committed are. They are excellently … Continue reading

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