Mom, Pass the Couscous
On Israeli family life: blessed chaos, impossible intimacy – and a magic that doesn’t exist anywhere else
On Israeli family life: blessed chaos, impossible intimacy – and a magic that doesn’t exist anywhere else
How did a British man, gay, conservative, fond of whiskey and long speeches, become the last clear voice in the world to lose his voice?
Douglas Murray – One Righteous Man in Sodom
What happens when the old establishments realize they no longer control the narrative – and decide to strike through the legal system?
The media today is not just a source of information – it is a national education system, only without supervision.
And it teaches us again and again: Don’t believe in yourself, don’t be proud of the IDF, don’t believe that you can win. That’s not “enlightened”
The Iranian nuclear program got a bomb in the face. Or three. Maybe something from space too.
And suddenly we, the Israelis, found ourselves facing a difficult question: Now that there is no more Iranian nuclear program (temporarily, yes?), what do we do with all the fears, obsessions, and movies we saw last night about an atom bomb in Tehran?
More and more people are waking up to the fact that this “darkness” of tradition, borders, family and nation is precisely what has held civilization together. And they are beginning to understand: true progress does not erase the past – it builds on it.
Anyone who has ever sat for an hour and a half in a shelter with 11 residents, two babies, and a small radio that screams “The alarm is over – you can leave” every five minutes – will tell you the truth: The most threatening thing about war is that the mold in the shelter will come out of it with more public presence from the Chief of Staff.
A sober look at the newscast as a marketing department of consciousness
Because if there’s one thing the right has already learned, it’s that the best-selling product on television is the fear of thinking differently
Yes, that’s not a typo. As of June 2025, the Israeli prime minister, the man who in recent decades has made an entire career out of warning about a nuclear Iran, is the most beloved person in the markets of Isfahan. Residents take pictures with posters of him, they sell “Bibi-Rimon”-flavored sweets, and there’s even an Iranian band called “Likud Underground” that performs covers of his campaign songs in Persian.