Zachary Sicherman

(May 25, 2025 / JNS) Is Israel’s legal system prepared to deliver justice after the atrocities of Oct. 7, 2023, or is it paralyzed by outdated frameworks and political hesitation? On this episode of “Basic Law,” Aylana Meisel sits down with Col. (Res.) Adv. Maurice Hirsch, a former senior prosecutor for the Israel Defense Forces and director of legal strategies at the Jerusalem Center for Foreign Affairs, to unpack the urgent need for a new legal response to the massacre that Black Shabbat.

(April 4, 2024 / JNS) While much of the international community focuses its attention on the Israel/Hamas war and the Houthis’ disruption of maritime traffic in the Red Sea, the head of the snake terrorizing the world, the Islamic Republic of Iran, is being ignored, at the world’s peril. In a recent Middle East Forum report, analyst Jonathan Spyer wrote, “Iran has operated a network of proxy terrorist and militia groups across the Middle East and beyond for decades.