Across the Arab world, in China and in Russia, there is an iron fist against radical Islam. In the liberal West, violence is running rampant without restraint. Jews are paying first, but as always in history, they will not be the last.

Like the pogroms of centuries past, the massacre on the first night of Hanukkah teaches a grim lesson: there is no future for Jews in Australia anymore, not in Britain, and certainly not in France, Belgium or Canada. Our brothers and sisters in the Diaspora, your place is here, even now.

Former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad is reportedly studying Russian and retraining in ophthalmology as he settles into exile in Moscow, with sources suggesting that members of Russia’s elite could one day become his patients.

As Jewish communities worldwide face the gravest threat since the Holocaust, Israel remains preoccupied with the attorney general and neighborhood inaugurations. The "eighth front" demands urgent national attention, before it is too late.