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The subtext to the increasingly strident calls by Israel’s allies to halt the military operation in Gaza

Why Jewish history is like a pendulum, swinging between the two poles of disaster and triumph

The cry of liberal Jewish pain rising from news reports since October 7 is so unsettling

For the first time in decades, there is now one Jewish world

“Surely this is a clear case of Divine Hashgachah; a miracle meant to afflict us and open our eyes” AS I rewatch the videos of Hamas terrorists streaming exultantly across the border in the early Simchas Torah light, I’m haunted by one thought: how easy it would have been to stop them had the IDF

The external prompt of yeshivah is positive, but the key point remains the same: whether the bochur develops his own drive for growth, independent of his environment