The Temple Mount is not in danger, but we need to blast this lie to pieces using words, not actions. Anyone who chooses a different course of action and starting blowing steam could wind up creating a storm that will engulf the entire region.

Contrary to what is being said on Palestinian social media, in the mainstream Arab media and by preachers at the Al-Aqsa Mosque, the Israeli government has no secret plans to push Muslims off the Temple Mount and turn it into a site of Jewish worship.

I am gradually losing my faith in this status quo. I am gradually becoming convinced that the idea of barring Jews from Temple Mount — because of the threat of Arab violence — rather than keep a lid on a barrel of dynamite, only begets more violence.

Vladimir Putin hoped that invading Ukraine would make NATO splinter, but the alliance has been energized and is now set to expand. This is a reminder that the bloc’s growth is a response to—and not the cause of—Russia’s aggression.

It has become clear that there are no limits to what Putin is willing to do to advance his geopolitical interests. In the end, it is Putin who has, in fact, made the case for joining NATO stronger than ever.

The answer is straightforward: For Ukraine to be truly free and independent, it will have to be a member of the European Union and NATO. Although Moscow will no doubt object, Putin’s brutal aggression makes clear that only European countries that are members of NATO can be truly secure.

It’s important to know that Health Freedom Defense Fund v. Biden, the case that led to the ruling striking down the travel mask mandate, was strictly about whether or not the federal government had the authority to implement the mandate; it was not about whether masking on transit is currently legitimate or useful from a public health standpoint.

It may seem counterintuitive, but flying in a small, enclosed metal tube can actually be safer from a COVID standpoint than many other indoor activities like eating in restaurants, or going to stores.

The relaxed rules have some people rethinking the safety of their daily commute — especially those at heightened risk of severe covid symptoms because they are over 65, have an underlying health condition like asthma or are immunocompromised.

Le Pen came much closer than last time to the French presidency, indicating that although France’s political promise to keep a far-right nationalist out of the highest office has held, Macron’s victory is far from a sweeping rebuke to the far-right in Europe.

The results suggest that hidden beneath the seething mass of social media caricatures – the arrogant Parisian rich, the angry provincial mob – there are millions of French people of the middling type who feel that Emmanuel Macron has not been at all a bad president.

…the defeat of far-right leader Marine Le Pen dealt an important blow to nationalist forces in Europe focused on limiting immigration and marginalizing immigrants, particularly Muslims. It was thus a victory for democracy as well.

…these kinds of attacks on the privacy and anonymity of private citizens who dissent from the liberal hegemony in ways found to be “problematic” have unfortunately become more commonplace in recent years.

Raichik’s identity is in the public interest, given the account’s political goals; it was also easily discovered via a domain-registration website.

…here’s no justifiable reason to protect the identity of someone like Raichik on social media so she can spread this kind of intolerance with impunity.

Nadia’s investigation of her own Judaism isn’t a dialogue; it’s a sitcom between herself and her fate… She doesn’t have time to wonder about God’s plans for her; she’s too busy trying to work around them.

Able to take her magic subway both directions through the timeline, she starts feverishly researching and experimenting with her history, cross-referencing library information about the Nazi treatment of Jews in Budapest (part of the season was filmed on location in Hungary) with the information she’s gleaning firsthand from her family.

Lyonne was educated in part at a Modern Orthodox Jewish high school where students read the Talmud in the original Aramaic, and she runs “Russian Doll” a bit like a yeshiva study circle. A lengthy syllabus that she distributed to the writers of Season 2 included texts on Viktor Frankl’s “Man’s Search for Meaning,” the Hungarian-American mathematician John von Neumann, quantum mechanics, and the history of the lobotomy.