In memoriam:
A politician who was also a role model
Joe Lieberman was almost U.S. vice president. But his real distinction was as a politician who stuck to his principles and showed how to be a faithful Jew in the public square.
Joe Lieberman was almost U.S. vice president. But his real distinction was as a politician who stuck to his principles and showed how to be a faithful Jew in the public square.
Biden’s State of the Union address and his subsequent pronouncements have harsh words for Israel, not Hamas, and not a word on surging antisemitism in the US. No real friend of Israel speaks this way. Opinion.
Journalists and social media deny the atrocities of Oct. 7 because of the false narrative about Israel being a “settler-colonial” state. No person with a shred of decency could support Hamas or oppose Israel’s efforts to eradicate it after reading about Hamas crimes. Opinion.
Black pastors are pressuring President Joe Biden to save Hamas because they identify with “oppressed” Palestinian Arabs who launched a genocidal war, not a drive for civil rights. Don't they know that? That is a morally bankrupt position. Op-ed.
The tragedy of the holiday is that it, like the civil-rights leader’s legacy, has been hijacked by woke ideologues who threaten American liberty and spread antisemitism. Op-ed.
Those who say it’s impossible to eliminate Hamas overestimate the terrorists and fail to understand the existential nature of this war.Op-ed
The woke ideologies that govern academia enable antisemitism that the heads of Harvard, Penn and MIT refuse to say breaks rules.Op-ed.
The US may finally be prepared to let Israel defeat the Islamist terror group. But we will not allow a Palestinian state after that. Op-ed.
The disruption of a public Orthodox prayer service in Tel Aviv on Yom Kippur cannot be excused. Op-ed.
The U.S. State Department condemned recent comments by Itamar Ben-Gvir. But that is not the real problem. Op-ed.
As in the US, Israel’s mainstream media favor the left, so they’re trying to crush pro-Netnayahu Channel 14. Op-ed.
U.S. organizations opposition to judicial reform isn’t defending democracy, but showing contempt for Israel's Jewish majority. Op-ed.
The battle over Israeli judicial reform can’t be settled by faux piety about unity. Politicized Tisha B’Av sermons won’t save Israel. Op-ed.
If on his Washington visit, Herzog publicly distances himself from Netanyahu, it will be a bebetrayal of his office. Op-ed.
The president’s latest shot at the Israeli government as “extreme” is hypocritical and inaccurate. Op-ed.
The civilizational struggle in which the left has cast the US as an irredeemably racist nation holds important stakes for the Jews. Op-ed.
Farley Weiss and Leonard Grunstein disscuss their new book: 'Because It’s Just Right'
A CUNY Law School graduation speech drew attention to the Jew-hatred in academia on the public’s dime. There must be accountability.Op-ed.
Bden's tribute to Jewish heritage featured a pledge against hate undermined by DEI orders and refusal to mention the IHRA definition.Op-ed.
The 18-part assault on yeshivas says more about the decline of journalistic ethics than it does about any alleged academic failings. Op-ed.
He took many questionable stands. But those who rightly see woke DEI ideology as a threat to Jewish life aren’t cheering his ouster, Op-ed.
PM's consideration of unabashed advocates, one a JNS columnist, for a top job is recognition that tepid diplomacy won’t cut it anymore.Op-ed
As the judicial reform issue heats up, the umbrella group of Jewish Federations is intervening in Israeli politics. That's a mistake.Op-ed/
A call to reconsider investing in Israel because of judicial reform, although not exactly BDS, validates anti-Zionist lies. Op-eds.
A false narrative may achieve its goal of toppling Netanyahu, the consequences for future governments and U.S.-Israel relations are ominous.
A think tank is attacked by Netanyahu opponents who focus on political power but not the ideas that put reform on the national agenda.Op-ed.
Jews who rioted following terror murders were condemned. But why does the Biden administration still tolerate Palestinian terrorism? Op-ed.
An Internet announcement is troubling, but Jews cowering in response and the mainstreaming of antisemitism by media is the real problem.
Some writers & publications aren’t just gaslighting the world about judicial reform. They’re also playing into hands of Israel’s foes.Op-ed.
Partisan split on booting Omar from committees illustrates the normalization of anti-Zionism.Op-ed.
The apocalyptic rhetoric about Netanyahu’s government and judicial-reform is about thwarting democracy, not protecting it. Op-ed.
Worries about results are real. But denying Hamas a veto over Jerusalem and asserting Jewish rights also brings benefits. Op-ed.
Most Americans don’t like the Jewish state’s new government. But it still deserves their support against those who work to destroy it.Op-ed.
A false narrative about the new government’s extremism, spread by Lapid and left-wing rabbis, will aid the cause of anti-Zionists. Op-ed.
Antisemitism, Bibi, Ben-Gvir, Zelenskyy and Trump, owned the headlines in a year of twists and some names that just don’t go away. Op-ed.
The left-wing lobby’s conference showed the group is irrelevant to Middle East realities and is also at war with Israel's interests.Op-ed.
Claiming Netanyahu’s government will make life hard for Diaspora Jews ignores what motivates Zionism’s foes and other anti-Semites. Op-ed.
The midterm election once again proved that many reporters suppress the truth to bolster their position in any dispute. Op-ed.
A documentary acknowledged hate on the left and the right, but failed to explain the role of critical race theory in mainstreaming it.Op-ed.
Belief in the myth of Jewish power haunts the U.S.-Israel relationship. Op-ed.
Despite outrage about interventions in its own elections,expect Washington to pull out the stops to try to sabotage Netanyahu.Op-ed
Exposing a corrupt foreign and defense establishment: A former US. general secretly worked for Qatar in connection with Benny Gantz. Op-ed.
NY’s Museum of Jewish Heritage has declared itself a partisan institution by banning Gov. DeSantis from speaking in its building.Op-ed.
U.S. Ambassador to Israel Thomas Nides sees his job not as promoting good relations but telling Israelis what they can and cannot do.Op-ed
Lip service paid by the world to the memory of the Six Million is matched by the complacence about or support for today's Jew-hatred.Op-ed.
Is Biden’s angry and divisive rhetoric to blame for the latest round of abusive Nazi analogies? Opinion.
Netanyahu’s trial ending in a plea bargain is bad for Israeli democracy, even if it lets us move on from a long-running nightmare. Op-ed.
Historian Deborah Lipstadt’s nomination to be State Department envoy shouldn’t be held hostage to partisan anger. Opinion.
Some cling to the myth of a 2-state solution, but recent statements by Mahmoud Abbas are in line with those wanting Israel destroyed.Op-ed.
Why are Jewish groups agreeing rather than pressuring it to stop Iran? Opinion.
South Africa’s struggle was nothing like the Israeli-Palestinian conflict but Tutu's bias showed how easily myths lead people astray. Op-ed.
Claims of settler violence made headlines while “routine” murder by Palestinian Arabs against Jews is downplayed or justified.Opinion.
NY's Rep. Bowman was praised for visitng Israel. But alliances with anti-Zionists and upsetting stands show a different story. Op-ed.
Why American Jews need to stop trying to cleanse the public square of religious symbols. Opinion.
Washington has lost the game before it started, and Israel is clearly on its own. Opinion.
The AIPAC formula, aiming for a broad coalition of both parties, that achieved success in the 1970s and 1980s is no longer working. Op-ed.
A dirty trick backfired in the Virginia election. Misusing Charlottesville as a partisan ploy makes fighting antisemitism a joke. Op-ed.
The Agron St. consulate is in a Jerusalem neighborhood that not even left-wing Israeli governments would ever consider surrendering. Op-ed.
A bogus claim that Holocaust studies must be balanced with revisionist lies is being used to discredit a law on critical race theory. Op-ed.
The attempt to frame protests against critical race theory as “domestic terrorism” also gives a permission slip to anti-Semitism.Op-ed.