Only the IDF or Private Contractors Can Disarm Hamas
No other force is both willing and able to do the job.
January 26, 2026
The Unusual Career, and Legendary Scholarship, of the Man Who Declined Israel’s Chief Rabbinate
Yechiel Yaakov Weinberg, survivor of the fire.
According to the Jewish calendar, last Thursday marked the 60th anniversary of the death of Rabbi Yechiel Yaakov Weinberg, an outstanding talmudist and sui generis thinker, known especially for his halakhic responsa S’ridei Eish (“Remnants of the Fire”). Born in Russian Poland in 1884, Weinberg had impeccable East European yeshiva credentials, but then traveled to Germany, pursued doctoral studies in Semitic philology, and embraced German Orthodoxy along with its positive attitude toward European thought and culture. Jacques Rothschild, whose mother was Rabbi Weinberg’s personal secretary, reflects on his life:
January 26, 2026
Israel Is a Crucial Asset for a U.S. Attack on Iran
How to take down the ayatollahs effectively.
Jerusalem Churches’ Flawed Condemnation of Chistian Zionism
Jews were invoked in a fight that wasn’t about them.
The Unusual Career, and Legendary Scholarship, of the Man Who Declined Israel’s Chief Rabbinate
Yechiel Yaakov Weinberg, survivor of the fire.
Five Centuries of Jewish History in Greenland
Arctic whalers and a World War II airbase.