Why Hamas Won’t Accept a Cease-Fire Deal
And why Israel needs to win.
June 5, 2025
The search for the Ba’al Shem Tov.
Most Jews know of Hasidim only as black-clad religious extremists. Those who know a little more about the hasidic movement, based perhaps on vaguely remembered snippets from Elie Wiesel, Martin Buber, or Chaim Potok, have a picture of a group that criticized the scholarly elite, appealed to the common man, and rejected abstruse talmudic legalism.
And why Israel needs to win.
The propaganda war against humanitarian aid.
But deflection might be a step on the road to recognition.
The real biblical “fox.”
The search for the Ba’al Shem Tov.