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The Houthis Aren’t Done — Are We?
Smoke rises in the sky following US-led airstrikes in Sanaa, Yemen, Feb. 25, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Adel Al Khader The US Navy spent over $1 billion and suffered an additional $100 million in equipment losses and damages during Operation Rough Rider, countering the Houthi threat in the Red Sea. Yet Iran’s Yemeni proxy remains heavily armed…
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Palestinian Authority Blames Israel for Bondi Beach Massacre
A woman keeps a candle next to flowers laid as a tribute at Bondi Beach to honor the victims of a mass shooting that targeted a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach on Sunday, in Sydney, Australia, Dec. 16, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Flavio Brancaleone Instead of unequivocally condemning the murder of 15 Jews at the Hanukkah event…
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The Story of Joseph: True Strength Is Shown in Restraint, Not Using Power Over Others
A Torah scroll. Photo: RabbiSacks.org. You may be surprised to hear that the first novel ever written, The Tale of Genji, wasn’t European, or even Western, but Japanese. It was composed more than a thousand years ago by a quirky lady in the imperial court of Japan, Murasaki Shikibu, a woman with an uncanny eye…
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Despite War, Israel Sees Surge in Multibillion-Dollar Defense, Tech, Energy Deals in 2025
Flags flutter in front of a radom of the “Arrow Weapon System for Germany” pictured in Annaburg, Germany, Dec. 3, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Axel Schmidt Despite predictions that the Gaza war would isolate its economy, Israel in 2025 signed a series of multibillion-dollar defense, technology, and energy deals with Western and Arab powers, extending commercial ties…
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Poetry in drama: Sutzkever’s stories come alive on the stage
יעדע פּיעסע איז נישט נאָר אַן אױפֿפֿירונג פֿון אַ סקריפּט, נאָר אױך אַן אינטערפּרעטאַציע דערפֿון. דאָס איז נאָך מער שײך אַ פּיעסע װאָס איז אַן אינסצענירונג פֿון די שאַפֿונגען פֿון אַ פּאָעט. די פֿאָרשטעלונג „נאַכט־מעשׂיות“, װאָס שפּילט אין מאַנהעטן ביזן 11טן יאַנואַר, איז כּדאַי צו זען נישט נאָר צוליב די געניטע, פּרעציזע אַקטיאָרן װאָס שפּילן…
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Explosion at Alawite Mosque in Syria’s Homs Kills Eight
Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa speaks during a joint press conference with French President Emmanuel Macron after a meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France, May 7, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Stephanie Lecocq/Pool Eight people were killed in an explosion at a mosque of the Alawite minority sect in the Syrian city of Homs on Friday, Syrian state news…
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Southern Yemeni Separatists Dismiss Saudi Call to Withdraw From Eastern Provinces
A drone view shows people attending a rally organized by Yemen’s main separatist group, the Southern Transitional Council (STC), in Aden, Yemen, Dec. 21, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Fawaz Salman Yemen’s main southern separatist group rejected on Friday a Saudi call for its forces to withdraw from areas it seized earlier in December, saying it will continue securing the eastern provinces of Hadramout and Mahra.…
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US Strikes Islamic State Terrorists in Nigeria
A missile is launched from a military vessel at an unidentified location, in this screen grab obtained from a handout video released by the Department of War on Dec. 25, 2025. Photo: US Department of War Via X/Handout via REUTERS The United States carried out a strike against Islamic State terrorists in northwest Nigeria at the request…
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Two Killed in Palestinian Stabbing-Ramming Terror Attack in Northern Israel
Israeli security forces inspect the scene where a vehicle was used by an assailant in a suspected ramming and stabbing terrorist attack that killed two people in northern Israel according to Israeli authorities, in Afula, Israel, Dec. 26, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Gil Eliyahu A Palestinian assailant ran over a man and stabbed a woman and killed them both…
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Netanyahu Coalition Pushes Contentious Oct. 7 Attack Probe, Families Call for Justice
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu participates in the state memorial ceremony for the fallen of the Iron Swords War on Mount Herzl, Jerusalem on Oct. 16, 2025. Photo: Alex Kolomoisky/POOL/Pool via REUTERS Israel‘s parliament gave the initial go-ahead on Wednesday for a government-empowered inquiry into the surprise October 7, 2023 attack by Hamas terrorists on…
