The good, the bad, the ugly — As a 21-year-old college student, I worked for a year at a gun store in Southern California from 2013–2014. Full transparency, I’d never once considered working at a gun store, in fact, I knew pretty much nothing about guns or any gun-related topics at the time. In fact, at this…

The story of how one chemical helped to bring a people out of 2000 years of exile. — Imagine, for a second, that you’re David Lloyd George and it’s the summer of 1915. Britain has fully engaged the Germans in Western Europe… but things are going incredibly badly.

Haredi Jews get a lot of crap amongst the secular Jews living in Israel — and vice versa as well. — It’s not hard to see why among the secular Jews the Haredi (whose name means to tremble before God) are seen with some very negative stereotypes. They don’t serve in the army. They don’t pay their taxes. They don’t work. 50% of Haredi men simply collect money from the government…

Time to do some unpacking. — “The Arabs will have to go, but one needs an opportune moment for making it happen, such as a war” — David Ben Gurion, 1937 How does this sentence make you feel? For many people, there is probably a physical reaction to this. …

There’s a lot of political news happening in Israel right now. — All of it bad. The newly elected political parties have agreed to a coalition — the most radical and extreme right in Israel’s short history. Rather than get into the nitty-gritty of each and every detail of their plan, let’s dive into one of the arguably most consequential moves this…

…of a few reasons — And sure, anti-Semitism is certainly one of them. With videos making the rounds of Israeli reporters being accosted by fans at the Qatari World Cup, many people in Israel are acting with indignation that they would be treated with anything less than open arms by people from abroad who have…

What’s cuter than the founding fathers laying in bed and arguing like an old married couple? — What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you think of the Founding Fathers? Brilliant legal and political minds? Old racist slave-owning white men? Badass cape-wearing superheroes who could fly and had laser vision along with an endless thirst for the blood of British vampire soldiers?? (me too!) Well…

Like their Western counterparts, young Palestinians have been born into a system that actively works against them, and they’re taking radical steps to change it. — There are two things that Israelis are expecting in the near future: Another inconclusive election in November. An Intifada. There isn’t a feeling of general panic in the streets or anything, it’s another cynical expectation that people have just accepted. Like income inequality or climate change.

One of the greatest rags-to-riches stories in human history. — As Americans, we love ourselves a good rags-to-riches story every now and again. It’s basically a confirmation of everything we hope to be true! That WE are the masters of our own destinies, that the world is a fair and just place, and that YOU deserve to launch a penis-shaped…