September 18, 2025

The tension between Athens and Sparta, openness and fortification, building and defending, has been with the Jewish people from Tanakh through Jabotinsky and into the present moment.

Free expression is essential in a democracy. No one should call for the censorship of ideas. But there must be accountability when speech crosses into incitement of political violence.

Ari Fuld’s heroism is evident because rarely does the victim become the savior.

While Bill Maher and John Fetterman demonstrated an understanding of Jewish values, across town at the Emmys we saw just the opposite, delivered with the hollow prefix “as a Jew.”

As Gen. Petraeus warned, “Half-measures in urban warfare do not save lives. They only postpone defeat.”