A touching nobility of purpose.

A connection to past and to future.

The cessation of Kaddish and a wedding in Be’eri.

Does effort matter?

The next chapter.

Strong institutions vs. a strong society.

But the enlistees will have to make bigger ones.

Israelis love their country and will sacrifice for it.

Incentives, not just demands.

Learning from Israel’s culture of fertility.

Understanding Hamas’s failures, Israel’s joy, and the difficult road ahead.

While America seems increasingly unhinged.

A society that hasn’t been infected with the black-and-white discourse of the West.

What Zionism has and hasn’t changed about the Jewish condition.