With Its Leadership Decimated and Its Finances Cut Off, Hamas Is in Crisis
But if it isn’t defeated now, the countdown to the next war will have already begun.
May 28, 2025
Israel’s U.S. Ambassador Is Punished for Defending His Government
Breaking the rules by telling the truth.
One might think that an ambassador would be expected to defend his own homeland’s elected leaders against vicious accusations during a media appearance in the country where he serves. In Israel, it seems that he is expected not to. This is what Yechiel Leiter, Jerusalem’s envoy to Washington, discovered after he was interviewed by the American podcaster Marissa Streit. Ruthie Blum writes:
May 28, 2025
How the UK Channels Millions of Pounds to Hamas
Even after weighing the “reputational risks.”
Israel’s U.S. Ambassador Is Punished for Defending His Government
Breaking the rules by telling the truth.
American Civil Religion in a Time of Religious Decline
Memorial Day reflections.
James Joyce’s Jewish Biographer
Richard Ellman and the WASP inner sanctum.