One of the main authors of the Trump Mideast peace plan is appealing to Palestinian Arab leaders to “count to 10” before rejecting the plan. Despite spending years observing … more

There is a growing chance that by October, the nuclear deal with Iran, otherwise known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), will be dead. Under the deal with the United States, … more

Everyone’s got an opinion on what the post-corona world will look like. What will the economy look like? Which businesses will remain and how will they adapt? How will our work lives and … more

In today’s woke and hyperpartisan world, nobody escapes the watchful eye of the thought police. Not even a pop superstar like Taylor Swift. The 30-year-old singer has sold tens of … more

Remember when we used to go to shul, Mommy?”  It’s Shabbat morning and my children are repeating the weekly ritual which now seems to have replaced the practice of actually … more

On a train on his way to the San Remo Conference on April 19, 1920, Chaim Weizmann wrote to his wife, Vera, who was living in London: “My dear, the most terrible, awful thing has happened … more

Through remote learning with their classmates, Morah Keren Englard’s students in the CAHAL Shulamith K-1 class, set up scenes … more

Dead. Unburied. Abandoned. Forgotten. What can be a worse fate? I once read a very moving novel about the events immediately preceding World War I and the fate of those who were caught up in … more

It was our first masah, our first forced march. We were barely two weeks in the army and Itzik, a sadistic little first sergeant who had made it his mission to break us into soldiers, owned us … more

Please pray for a refuah shlema for Avraham ben Mindel. B”H, Alan’s column will resume soon. more