Most Clicked This Week
- “America's team of real estate developers and financiers may beat Iran's diplomats at the bargaining table”
- #MAGA "Jerusalem is now looking at what may be the most pro-Israel White House in the history of the bilateral relationship"
- Students find affordable housing in shipping container apartments
- This all has to change: "Palestinian curriculum rejects the legitimacy of Israel’s existence, justifies violence against it, defines such violence as a religious obligation and informs students that Jews and Zionists are irredeemably evil"
- Eurovision Song Winner Barzilai was "unrepentant with her popular techno dance beat about women's empowerment" [VIDEO]
- Set in New York in 1977, “Hunters” follows a band of Nazi hunters who find out hundreds of Nazi officials living in the US are plotting to establish a “Fourth Reich”
- "The new AT age -- "After Trump" -- began on either Election Day, Nov. 3, or on Inauguration Day, Jan. 20. But either way, reality as we had known it for four years has been abruptly reinvented"
- “Yale University has quietly adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) definition of antisemitism”
Monthly Archives: April 2026
This month marks 12 years curating posts as a news aggregator.
I’m breaking the proverbial fourth wall today. This blog now begins year twelve, begun in April 2014. Prior to then I’d been sharing articles via mass BCC emails but eventually ran afoul with GMail as they intermittently denied access due … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
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Senior Israeli official: “United States now intends to actively lead efforts to disarm Hezbollah”
JPOST US intends to lead Hezbollah disarmament, senior Israeli official tells ‘Post’ Amichai Stein April 16, 2026 A senior Israeli official told The Jerusalem Post that, unlike in the past, the United States now intends to actively lead efforts to disarm Hezbollah … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East, Politics
Tagged Hezbollah, Lebanon, Marco Rubio
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Oren: “Before Europe casts us off completely, perhaps we should separate first. It’s time, I maintain, to say goodbye”
CLARITY Time to Say Goodbye Michael Oren April 16, 2026 This week, on Yom Hashoa, a friend told me a story I had never heard—how her father as a young Jew in Libya during World War II was arrested by … Continue reading
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Tagged Czech Republic, Europe, France, Germany, Italy, Michael Oren, Spain, United Kingdom
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“Critics of administration have predictably dismissed the reverse blockade move as a desperate effort to regain leverage over Tehran. In truth, the strategy is anything but spontaneous”
FORBES Trump’s Hormuz Blockade Has Been Planned For Years Ilan Berman April 15, 2026 …A decade-and-a-half ago, while on a visit to U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) in Tampa, Florida, I had a candid exchange with a senior military official deeply … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East, Politics
Tagged casus belli, Centcom, Donald Trump, Iran, Straits of Hormuz
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Sanders’ resolutions to stop bulldozer, bomb deliveries gain unprecedented Democratic support, demonstrating major shift in party’s approach toward Israel
COMMENTARY Outlawing Israeli Self-Defense Seth Mandel April 16, 2026 Yesterday’s Senate vote on Israel highlighted the utter uselessness of the term “defensive weapons.” It also shows why pro-Israel good faith is no match for anti-Zionist opportunism, especially in an era … Continue reading
“Why so many, on both the left and the right, keep getting Trump wrong”
TABLET MAG Seven Myths About the Iran War Michael Doran April 14, 2026 Donald Trump’s actions in the Middle East continually surprise the foreign-policy establishment and the media elite. According to commentators on both the right and the left, the … Continue reading
“The school’s president, Andrew Rehfeld, rejected Ohio attorney general’s claims that Reform institution was violating donors’ wishes by closing Cincinnati program”
EJEWISH PHILANTHROPY HUC ‘deeply disappointed’ by suit to block closure of Ohio seminary, as new school looks to step in Jay Deitcher April 16, 2026 The Reform movement’s Hebrew Union College said on Wednesday that it was “deeply disappointed” by … Continue reading
“The mullahs believed they held all the cards when the ceasefire was called. But no permanent stoppage was possible without meeting U.S. demands”
FREE PRESS How Iran Wasted the Ceasefire Eli Lake April 12, 2026 The cliché about the Islamic Republic of Iran is that it has never won a war, but never lost a negotiation. Over the weekend in Pakistan, that diplomatic … Continue reading
“The allies dismantled Iran’s military infrastructure, but left untouched the narrative engine designed to end wars by breaking democracies from within”
FUTURE OF JEWISH Iran’s deadliest weapon was never on the target list Guy Goldstein April 10, 2026 The allied campaign against the Islamic Republic of Iran mapped air defenses, missile batteries, nuclear facilities, and command nodes. It has been called … Continue reading
“At least we now know Josh Shapiro is not a double agent for Israel. He is just a double-crosser”
NEW ZIONIST TIMES Josh Shapiro’s Israel Doublecross Bob Goldberg April 10, 2026 …For years, the political left whispered that Shapiro’s “moral clarity” on the Jewish state was a sign of dual loyalty. They need not have worried. His recent pivot—decrying … Continue reading
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