The barbaric slaughter of Jewish innocents by Hamas 15 months ago not only triggered a determined counter-attack, writes Caroline Glick at Jewish News Syndicate, it opened the way to a strategic victory for Israel over the enemies ringing it and, even more significantly, a kind of psychic “rebirth” or “resurrection” – Tkuma in Hebrew – of Israeli resolve, self-confidence and strategic independence from the U.S.

Bad Mom? Bad Wife?
The Massachusetts trial of Lindsay Clancy for killing her three young children (recently declared a mistrial) became a litmus test for couples – with some publicly breaking off engagements due to disagreements over her culpability. Writing in The American Mind, Evie Solheim ponders the malign influence of social media on the marriage decision for younger generations. “When men and women treat existence as a zero-sum game, everyone loses,” she writes, pleading for greater understanding between the sexes. For more on marriage, see this C2C article.


