Jay Bloom // Bloom Family Office

The headlines read “Billionaire Jay Bloom saved from submarine disaster.” For quite some time after the doomed Titan submersible sank on June 18 while seeking the ruins of the Titanic, Jay Bloom was headline...

Spleen Supersedes Sanity // A Congresswoman Stands Alone

Priceless as it was predictable, terrorist groups reacted to Israel’s recent “Operation Home and Garden” in Jenin by… celebrating their triumph. That, with the raided city looking, according to journalists, like the aftermath of a...

Biden vs Bibi // As relations between the Biden administration and Netanyahu’s government ...

David Melech Friedman (born August 8, 1958) served as the United States ambassador to Israel under President Trump from May 15, 2017, until January 20, 2021, having previously been a bankruptcy attorney with the...

The Supreme Court’s Latest Bombshells // The justices’ decisions have political and practical relevance

“This is an important victory for Americans of all faiths, who may now follow their religious consciences in the workplace.” —Aaron Streett of Baker Botts, attorney for Gerald Groff in Groff vs. DeJoy; Groff was...

Mortin Levy // Levy Commodities

Although Mortin (Matisyahu Aharon) Levy, a longtime commodities trader, is now retired, we had to schedule our conversation for early evening because he still follows the stock market throughout the day. Mortin was born...

Anything But Anti-Orthodox // Brandeis’ Crime is Something Else

I take a seat second to no one when it comes to alacrity in detecting and pointing out anti-Orthodox bias. Exposing such bias has been a recurrent theme in my writing for many years....

France // A Visit to Southern France and Beyond

Summer vacation in Britain and Europe is different from that of North America. Holidays, as the summer vacation is known in Britain, starts from after Tishah B’Av and runs until Rosh Chodesh Elul. Most...

A Submarine Disaster Holds the World’s Attention // Who will be held...

“I’m struck by the similarity of the Titanic disaster itself, where the captain was repeatedly warned about ice ahead of his ship, and yet he steamed at full speed into an ice field on...

Kobi Regev The Squadron // LunchBreak

During my conversation with Israeli pilot and war veteran turned entrepreneur Kobi Regev, I suggested that he make a specific addition to the lessons and methodology that he and his team impart at The...

Riding While Chareidi // A bus battle echoes in the Knesset

In a widely viewed recent video clip, an Israeli woman on a bus gave a chareidi man a hard time—about his being chareidi. The bus was in Hod Hasharon, a largely secular town, and the...