Reasons for Hope about Syria
Replacing an enemy with an asset.
May 16, 2025
John Fetterman’s Concern for Jews Drives His Party, but Not His Voters, Crazy
A sane man in an insane world.
Having suffered a stroke, and then subsequent psychiatric ailments that led to his brief hospitalization, John Fetterman’s time in the Senate has not been especially smooth. Yet now that he seems generally recovered, there has been a spate of dubious pieces in left-of-center publications suggesting that the Pennsylvania Democrat is mentally unstable and possibly unfit for office. Fetterman, incidentally, has been one of the most persistent defenders of Israel on Capitol Hill.
May 16, 2025
Why Islamism’s Ideology of Resentment Focuses Its Anger on the Jews
While betraying the Islamic view of history.
John Fetterman’s Concern for Jews Drives His Party, but Not His Voters, Crazy
A sane man in an insane world.
The Origins of the Lag ba-Omer Bonfire
And its rabbinic critics.
The Biblical Owl as Symbol of Destruction and Loneliness
“I am like a desert owl of the wilderness.”