ECHOES OF EXCEPTIONALISM: Refusing to Live by Lies In Moscow, Russia, on August 19, 1991, history arrived on a gray morning in a steady late-summer rain in the form of a column of tanks moving through ordinary Moscow traffic. Morning radio news announced that Mikhail Gorbachev had been removed as the leader of the Soviet […]

A quarter century later, Rosh Hashanah and 9/11 converge on the day judgment is written, but the shofar is silent This Rosh Hashanah arrives on the eve of September 11, 2026, twenty-five years to the day since nineteen terrorists hijacked four American airliners and killed 2,977 people, including five Israelis, drawn from more than seventy […]