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NAZA is the documentary everyone is talking about. At the Venice Film Festival on September 10, 2026, it earned a record-breaking 25-minute standing ovation, and won the Special Jury Prize. Its charge is devastating: that Israel's army knowingly accepted massive civilian casualties in Gaza. The film was commissioned by Britain's The Guardian and made by […]
Human Interest
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Describing the painstaking trial and error process that eventually led to the creation of the incandescent light bulb, prolific inventor Thomas Edison famously said, “I have not failed. I have merely found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” British entrepreneur James Dyson reports that he built 5,127 prototypes of his cyclonic vacuum before reaching the one […]
On the morning of October 7, 2023, my nephew, a student at NYU, woke up and reached for his phone. His feed was already flooded with posts attacking Israel. He didn't yet know what had happened there. Only after scrolling through post after post did he piece together what had happened hours earlier. Hamas terrorists […]
In anticipation of Netflix’s 7-part East of Eden, I reread John Steinbeck’s classic novel, a modern epic loosely based on the biblical story of Cain and Abel. Even the title comes from Genesis: after killing his brother, Cain “dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden” (Genesis 4:16). The book carries a […]
Hamas terrorists kidnapped dozens of Israelis and slaughtered more than a hundred others at this kibbutz. Some survivors returned a month later to rebuild.
