- November 26, 2021
The Israeli wine revolution is an undeniable, stark indication of support from the Heavens.
- November 19, 2021
The discourse about Israel in Dubai and Ramallah couldn’t be more different: cooperation versus confrontation, celebration versus demonization.
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- February 12, 2021
A wholesale changeover in Washington’s foreign policy elites is underway; a substitution of mindsets that worries Israel. Here is a survey of recent deep-think journal articles that map the shift.
- February 5, 2021
When there is a desecration of G-d’s name and danger to public health, one does not shy away from criticism of haredi leaders.
- January 29, 2021
Haredi leadership seems to prize communal autonomy above all, even at the expense of exposure to deadly illness. Yanki Kanievsky is a metaphor for such “unbearable lightness,” the preposterous and perilously cavalier haredi assertion of freedom.
- January 28, 2021
To mark Tu BeShvat, the holiday celebrating fruit from the Land of Israel, the World Mizrachi movement invited me to produce a wine TV program. To this end, I interviewed five top Israeli winemakers and tasted their best wines along with them.
- January 22, 2021
My third annual list of best books on Israeli and Jewish matters, ranging from diplomacy and history to Torah commentary.
- January 15, 2021
US President-elect Joe Biden ought not jettison the outgoing administration’s Mideast achievements – successful policies that made the US and Israel safer and stronger! – because of Trump’s turpitude.
- January 8, 2021
A political-diplomatic forecast for the year ahead: Fourth and fifth Israeli elections, a rotten new/old nuclear deal with Iran, more trouble from Trump.
- January 6, 2021
A collection of six optimistic op-ed columns I have published since the “Abraham Accords” were signed, including three articles based on extensive conversations with Emirati intellectuals and community leaders during a week-long visit to Dubai.
- January 4, 2021
There are several ways in which the Emiratis and Bahrainis (and perhaps soon the Saudis) can bring about a slow but sea change in Palestinian, Lebanese and Syrian (and Egyptian and Jordanian) attitudes towards Israel.
- January 1, 2021
Emirati pursuit of peace with Israel is backed by a genuine discourse of religious moderation and broad-mindedness.
