At this particularly difficult time, it is exceptionally important that we elevate the awareness and engagement of American Jews in commemorating this day and highlight the powerful worldview, of the Religious Zionist community that has borne a disproportionate number of the losses in the past year and a half.
Two memorial days fall together each year, to remind us, beyond any doubt, how much it costs us to have our own state, and how much it costs us without.
In Israel fallen soldiers aren’t distant names etched on stone. They are classmates. Cousins. Neighbors. They are our kids’ friends. Our friends’ kids. No one is untouched. The silence of Yom HaZikaron is not symbolic—it is personal. It’s raw. It hurts.
Memorial Day and Independence Day are the times I thank God that instead of growing up being American kids who are Jewish, my offspring are Children of Israel, just as we are called in the Bible.
What would Israel’s fate have been on October 7, 2023, had it been confined to narrow borders hemmed in by a Palestinian Arab state? Opinion.
The Mandate for Palestine conferred the right of the Jews to settle anywhere between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. This entitlement has not been changed in international law. Opinion.
Heberts Cukurs was a principle figure in the mass murder of Jews in the forests of Riga. He does not deserve a hero's reburial.
President Trump's first 100 days are marked by a plethora of achievements. His flurry of success in such a short period of time distinguishes him as a rare man of action. Opinion.
Trump’s showdown with Ivy League schools and student agitators is the guide. Opinion.
Isolationism is not a solution. It is the problem. Opinion.
Washington must stop indulging fantasies about Turkey "coming back to the table." Erdogan’s government has made its choice. Opinion.
From where does the passion of some Jews to turn on their people come? Op-ed.
Raising the torch for Israel’s symbols of bravery and hope, Op-ed.
The importance of these artifacts transcends history or archaeology. Their captivity in gentile hands, if that is still the case, is a desecration, a mockery of Jewish sovereignty. Opinion.
Usually, when we write about the Holocaust, we end on a high note. We say…nothing like this can ever happen again....Op-ed.
Belief in Ahmed al-Sharaa’s promises is a mistake that could cost Israel dearly. What Sharaa has mastered is not moderation, but marketing. Opinion.
To Joe Lieberman, what is best for the country came before party loyalty. Not a common trait among politicians, to say the least. Review
Long, but necessary to understand what can be called The Deep State Plot to Topple Netanyahu and Protect Shabak intelligence Head Ronen Bar on the background of similar events in Israel's past.
As the Arab Muslim world moves forward, the West is going backwards. Opinion.
While growing up in Moscow, I never once encountered Jews who hated Israel or wished her ill. Now, in Israel as well as among Diaspora Jewry, a series of betrayals, shame and meanness are imprinted in my memory like a newsreel. Opinion.
Hamas tailors messages to pressure Israel’s government while stoking public fear, often amplifying protests or hostage videos to deepen divisions and emotional reactions.
There is literally no respite from the lies of our enemies. Opinion.
A survivor of Dachau writes to the American soldiers who liberated the camp: 'You and I, who saw it all, must forever be willing to bear witness to the authenticity of the Holocaust, which was perpetrated by a so called civilized nation.'
Exploiting America’s openness to push radical ideologies is not new. It stems from the nation’s commitment to freedom. Yet, growing recognition of this danger, coupled with political resolve, marks a shift. Opinion.
It’s essential to recognize that Israel’s actions are aligned with broader Western interests, and that Israel is acting as a proxy army for the U.S. and the West with shared stakes in neutralizing a state sponsor of global terrorism.
We must never forget—not only the horrors of the past but the miracle of the present. and how they are connected. Because If a sovereign Jewish state had existed in the 1930s, millions of Jews could have been saved.
Antisemites desire the butchery of Jews. And are ready to revere those who were butchered. Opinion.
The story of where fate brought me in 1963 at the age of 16 when I was in high school. As an average Soviet schoolboy, I was far from Judaism in all its aspects. Jewish history changed everything.
Germany itself was brought to ruin by this fanatical hatred, and yet in his final hours, Hitler remained fixated on murdering Jews. There are parallels in today's Middle East. Opinion.
The terrorist organization seeks regime survival in Gaza via a full deal. Four former defense officials present their view of Hamas strategy.. Opinion.
Great books teach great lessons, and that’s something Palestinian Arabs can not allow. Opinion.
Pope Francis expressed distrust of the West and support for Israel’s declared enemies. Opinion.
The Reform Movement, as it exists in much of the West today, is no longer Judaism that believes it is reforming itself for the modern world. It is crony progressivism with Hebrew subtitles.
For years, we asked for federal enforcement, investigations, holding back federal funding to fight campus antisemitism - so why are some of us so afraid when it happens? Opinion.
What is so alarming about the Holocaust is the involvement of average people, many of whom participated not so much out of hatred of Jews, but because this was part of their job. And then there is the intelligentsia. Opinion.
We owe it to the six million. Their memory demands more than silence and sirens. It demands unity. It demands strength. It demands that we live as one people—with one heart—even if we don’t always agree.
Though the Israeli prime minister’s statement lacked dramatic breaking news, it was a message that everyone at home and abroad needed to hear. Remember FDR's fireside chats in WWII? Opinion.
Pope Francis did call out Hamas as “evil” and called for them to return Israeli hostages. Yet these moments of moral clarity were overshadowed by Pope Francis’ frequently harsh and unjustified attacks on Israel. Opinion.
Political Islam—especially the Muslim Brotherhood—is not a religion, but a calculated ideological project. Opinion.
From all over the world, they came, among them the diseased and the violent, and nothing was done to stop them from swarming our towns and neighborhoods. Until Trump - and now the Democrats are trying to stop him. Opinion.
A book on the connection between the Jews and Eretz Yisrael. Stealing the heritage of others is part of how Islamists generally and Palestinian Arabs in particular work. Review.
The Rutgers CSRR has so thoroughly cornered the market in Israel-hating professors that if they were all together on a boat that sank, the anti-Israel academic "resistance" would all but disappear. Opinion.
A war can be both morally justified and legally constrained. Israel’s campaign against Hamas is exactly that. It was not launched lightly or recklessly—it was waged in defense of life, sovereignty and the rule of law. Opinion.
Iran's nuclear program exhibits concerning parallels with those of North Korea, India, Pakistan, and Israel, marked by a history of deception, but radically differing from them in its alarming rhetoric of genocidal threats against Israel. The risks posed by a nuclear-armed Iran significantly outweigh those of other nations. Op-ed.
There are at least 5 Israeli companies advancing human-centric care using AI of at least 1800 in biotechnology. Overseas investments indicate that Israel's economic situation is considered stable. Op-ed.
The numbers of antisemitic incidents in Europe are staggering, but worse still is the silence, the rationalization, and the institutional inaction. This climate emboldens groups like Hezbollah which is making inroads into Africa. Opinion.
This is the tragic truth: European governments who realize that their fifth column is now too big to be governed are using the repression of critics as appeasement. Opinion.
Our ethics aren't abstract principles discussed in comfortable podcast studios, but lived realities tested in history's crucible. Op-ed.
Technical Note: Unprecedented terms and conditions could block return to war In Hamas deal. Opinion.
Hamas' hostage videos are part of its strategy to shake the foundations of Israeli unity, ignite division, and stir unrest. If they did not serve Hamas’ goals, the videos would never have been released. Op-ed.
Passover, the "holiday of freedom", is also the "holiday of Spring" in the Torah - and is "the Spring of the entire world" in the words of Rav Avraham Yitschak HaCohen Hook, Israel's first chief rabbi and founder of Merkaz HaRav Yeshiva in Jerusalem.
Rather than facing total obliteration, Hamas, if they have any rationality, should understand, as did Arafat 43 years ago, that accepting safe passage in return for total surrender of the hostages and arms is their only escape option. But Israel must refrain from another Oslo that brings them back. Opinion.
And those allies are calling for the murder of Jews. Opinion.
Jabotinsky’s Betar worldwide is the growing link in the chain begun by Jabotinsky anf continued by Menachem Begin. Opinion.
For 334 weeks, we went through a weekly ritual in which I sent him my articles from Sydney, many of which were posted on Arutz Sheva, and he returned his cartoon from Herzliya that was able to convey what I had struggled to produce in 620 words.
The simple idea is that everyone is invited, without a formal invitation and without distinctions of origin or background, creating an atmosphere of closeness between people and expressing the aspiration for a cohesive and respectful society.
It’s not just the man suspected of setting fire to the Pennsylvania governor’s Harrisburg home who has lost his mind. The attack on Shapiro’s house is what “Globalize the intifada!” looks like. Opinion.
No military, no country, no people has ever sacrificed collective victory for individual pain — not because the individuals don’t matter, but because the welfare of the whole trumps the welfare of the few. Opinion.
Trump is right to declare war on Harvard’s woke antisemites. They have declared war on Western civilization. Opinion
