Matthew Brooks

In 1939, Winston Churchill said, “I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma; but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest.” And yet, since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the demise of communism in 1991, we in […]

Our electrifying, exhausting, and sometimes exhilarating election is over; the inauguration is over; the first 100 days are over.  The issues that confronted us before the election are still here, and issues demand answers – sometimes in the form of legislation and implementation, sometimes in the form of individuals doing what they can alone and […]

In 1945, the dazed remnants of European Jewry crawled out of charnel houses, basements and forests. Six million Jews had been killed in the Holocaust; one-third of all Jews. Less than two decades later, the three million Jews of Israel faced a declared determination by Egypt to marshal its allies and finish the job. Israelis […]