How Judaism Protects, Rather than Hinders, Israeli Democracy
As several great thinkers have observed, religion encourages a positive civic culture.
March 23, 2015
Iran Can Still Be Stopped
There's good reason to believe a strike might have longer-lasting effects than many experts think.
In the past few years, various experts on nuclear weapons and military matters have declared that attacks on Iran’s nuclear facilities will do little to prevent the Islamic Republic from producing atomic bombs; even if successful, they claim, such strikes will only turn back the clock a few years. Lee Smith argues that there is much evidence to the contrary:
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The Election That Didn’t Happen Matters More than the One That Did
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His “sense of Judaism, or rather Jewishness, was visceral, not intellectual.”
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A secret 1977 trip to Cairo is involved.
Iran Can Still Be Stopped
There's good reason to believe a strike might have longer-lasting effects than many experts think.