by Ram ben Ze’ev A Dangerous Retreat: Why Reclassifying Cannabis Is a Profound Mistake Yesterday, President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order directing the United States Attorney General to move cannabis from Schedule I to Schedule III under federal law, placing it in the same regulatory category as drugs such as Tylenol with codeine. As a lifelong Republican, a committed GOP voter, and someone who proudly supported President Trump in 2016, 2020, and 2024, I write this w

by Ram ben Ze’ev When Strategy Becomes Constraint: The Risk Beneath Strategy’s Bitcoin Reserve (Source @ strategy ) Strategy (NASDAQ: MSTR ) has spent the last five years presenting its Bitcoin treasury policy as a masterstroke of conviction: relentless, quarterly accumulation, regardless of price, with Bitcoin elevated from a speculative asset to a corporate reserve. On the surface, the numbers are impressive. More than 670,000 BTC acquired across 90 separate purchases since

by Ram ben Ze’ev When Light Is Targeted We are confronted once again with a moment that defies words and yet demands them. The Jewish Community has gathered, as we are commanded, in public, with dignity and courage, to praise G-D and to bring light into a world that too often prefers darkness. At a Hanukkah gathering in Bondi Beach, Australia, where families and communal leaders assembled to light the first night’s candle, that light was targeted. Reports speak of murder and

by Ram ben Ze'ev Hanukkah: Lighting Truth in a World That Forgets Light As we prepare once again to enter the days of Hanukkah, beginning on כ״ה כסלו (25 Kislev) — this year commencing at sundown on Sunday, 14 December 2025 — we are not merely approaching a festival of memory, but a living commandment: to kindle light, night by night, for eight days, and to bring light into the world as our mandate by G-D. Hanukkah is the time when we, the Jewish people, actively fulfil our r

by Ram ben Ze'ev The War on Words: How the Nations Distort Our Holiest Language Language is not neutral. For ישראל, it is the vessel through which קדושה enters the world. When the nations take our sacred words, reshape them, and hand them back to us with their meaning hollowed out, something essential is lost. Holiness becomes obscured, and the identity of our people is quietly eroded. Few examples reveal this more starkly than the distortion of שבת (Shabbat, rest) into the C

by Ram ben Ze'ev Bitcoin, Strategy, and the Manufactured Illusion of Wealth Retail investors are once again being swept into the tide of Bitcoin euphoria—this time fuelled not by anonymous influencers, but by the relentless promotional machine of Strategy ($MSTR) and its frontman, Michael Saylor. His latest announcement proudly declares the acquisition of another 10,624 BTC at an astonishing price of more than $90,000 per coin, framing it as yet another milestone in the compa

מאת רם בן זאב המלכודת מבפנים: עבודה זרה בארצנו וההשלכות שאיננו מוכנים לראות ישראל ניצבת היום בצומת שאינו מוגדר על ידי גבולות או פוליטיקה, אלא על ידי בהירות רוחנית. אנו עומדים מול אויבים מכל עבר, ובכל זאת הסכנה הגדולה ביותר אינה חיצונית. היא הסכנה שאפשרנו ואף קיבלנו לתוך שערינו. אנו מצווים על ידי ה׳ בדקדוק מוחלט. בשמות כג:לג התורה אומרת: לא ישבו בארצך פן יחטיאו אתך לי כי תעבד את אלהיהם כי יהיה לך למוקש זה איננו שיר. זו הלכה. זו אזהרה. זו נבואה. וזו המציאות. ישראל כיום מוצפת בכ

by Ram ben Ze'ev The Snare Within: Idolatry in Our Land and the Consequences We Refuse to See Israel stands today at a crossroads not defined by borders or politics, but by spiritual clarity. We face enemies on every side, and yet the greatest danger is not external. It is the one we have permitted—welcomed, even—within our own gates. We are commanded by G-D with absolute precision. In שמות (Shemot) 23:33 the Torah states: לא ישבו בארצך פן יחטיאו אתך לי כי תעבד את אלהיהם כי

by Ram ben Ze’ev The Digital Trap: Why Bitcoin May Be the Greatest Financial Ambush of Our Time The world has been conditioned to view Bitcoin as a revolutionary force—an escape hatch from the dominance of the U.S. dollar, a decentralised answer to global inflation, and a hedge against political instability. Yet a growing body of evidence suggests that Bitcoin may be functioning not as liberation, but as the most sophisticated instrument ever designed for America to export it