In "The Canary on the Couch", psychiatrist Kenneth Levin analyzes not just the Jewish community itself, but the psychological health of its leadership. Review.
An adversary that does not accept the permanence of the opposing state does not experience a ceasefire as a settlement. It experiences it as a reloading interval. Israel must act in accordance with that unpleasant truth. Opinion.
A fabulist possesses an astonishing ability to assert alternate realities and spin fictional tales of accomplishment and conquest. But at this point, it seems everyone is lying. Opinion.
A familiar dilemma exists: to reoccupy Southern Lebanon, which might push Hezbollah north of the Litani River. But that doesn’t remove the terror group’s long-range capabilities or prevent its rebuilding. Opinion.
Reality will remain unchanged unless internal fracture within the regime, sustained pressure from an increasingly disillusioned society, and the willingness of external forces to move beyond ambiguity to a defined strategy, change it. Opinion.
Resistance to Islamic totalitarianism is not supported by Western public opinion, especially not by apathetic France. The protesting Iranians remain forgotten. Opinion.
The ceasefire exposed Trump’s bluster, lending him the climb-down of all climb-downs, thereby, endangering the free world. Opinion.
What is missing, and what Israel's own experience of deterrence theory makes painfully legible, is a victory doctrine. Opinion.
Arabs' illegal planting on Jewish farms is a microcosm of their strategy to encroach on all of Judea and Samaria. Opinion.
The party's current trajectory is unsustainable, and the gap between the party and the electorate has grown too wide to ignore. Opinion.
The PA is skewing the Home Front's rules meant for protection of worshipers during the ongoing war to claim danger to Al Aksa and incite the Arab population. This is nothing new.
Israeli police protecting a cardinal vs. Islamic terrorists killing Christians. Who does the West villify? It’s the same perverse logic that turned Gaza into a global obsession while ignoring Chinese camps for Uyghurs, church burnings in India, beheadings in Somalia and Iran massacring protestors. Opinion.
The anti-Trumpers do not oppose concentrated power. They oppose rival power, while excusing true tyrannies of censorship, confiscation, judicial activism, and bureaucratic dominion in the name of the 'protection of democracy'. The close Israeli parallel is impossible to miss. Opinion.
There are lies that wound, and there are lies that kill. Op-ed.
Western reconstruction funds and diplomatic recognition must not precede verifiable proof that Iranian smuggling networks have been permanently dismantled. The proclaimed neutrality of Ahmed al-Sharaa is a diplomatic posture, not an operational reality. Opinion.
If Israel stops-does Iran stop? Opinion.
Afraid to be identified as Jews, the owners of the New York Times embedded their own Reform Jewish self-hatred into their newsroom to perpetuate its hateful reporting about Israel and the Jews.
Passover teaches freedom, but some progressive prophets insist it’s just another homework assignment in lecturing the Israelis. Opinion.
Jabotinsky anticipated the recurring need to answer, to defend, to explain - and sometimes simply to endure. Read and gain strength.
As with Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, only total victory and absolute, unconditional surrender will fix the problem in Iran. Opinion.
Zoroastrian culture, if brought back to its former glory, can make all the difference to downtrodden Iranians' pride. Opinion.
Cultural DNA matters. You cannot allow or promote celebrating seventh-century conquests every Friday and then act shocked when some take the lesson literally. And Iran under the Ayatollahs is Nazi Germany redux. Opinion.
Mother's family nearly all wiped out, Father turning, as always to Torah, and explaining how our ordeal, and deliverance mirrors the Biblical Exodus. Op-ed,
Different arenas, the same instinct, to step forward, to speak, to stand firm, to refuse to bow, to cower, or to wait.
The war broke the Islamic Caliphate of Shi’ism but hardened its inner core, elevating the junta within while clerical authority is a façade. U.S. and Israeli strikes have eroded Iran’s conventional and nuclear capability while empowering the IRGC, intensifying repression. Opinion.
'Countries in complex security situations must rely on alliances that protect stability and secure vital passages rather than emotions or ideology,' says the writer. Read carefully to fill in the names of those forces not identified by name.
With its new ruling, Turkey can be called 'a consolidated autocracy utilizing 21st-century technology to enforce a level of societal control reminiscent of medieval absolutism.' Opinion.
Repeat killers, hostage deals, and media spin led Israelis to a breaking point. Opinion.
The long-term consequences of weak Western leadership, the Democrats' giving in to Muslim pressure, the failure of multiculturalism with unassimilated Islamic immigration, and the risk of demographic and ideological pressures are eroding the open societies we take for granted. Op-ed.
The Haggadah instructs the adult to take the first step: “You open up the conversation for them."
What has changed and what has not changed this year?
Iran is great at turning battlefields into bases for its ideology, and Sudan's military culture is soaking this up. If no one stops them, they will control the Red Sea and Khartoum will host permanent Iranian drone teams, electronic spying stations, and naval advisors reaching deep into Africa's interior.
Only a fool, an ignoramus, or a useful idiot could suppose that the current wave of hatred against Israel and the West will stop with the Jews. Op-ed.
Those who can see the light know exactly what they are looking at.
Let that sink in. An ally-protected by American power-shut its doors on the very country fighting to defend it. Opinion.
Doubling the number of Jews in Judea and Samaria is the strategic imperative of the next two years. Op-ed.
Major Jalaa Ibrahem HY"D came from a family of IDF fighters. He grew up with Israel's Declaration of Independence on the wall outside his room, and although he had a future in NASA, he followed the family tradition and chose the green IDF uniform instead.
Read about one of the hottest topics currently dominating the Iranian media space: the potential entry of Iraq-based Hashd al-Shaabi into Iran, a move which is less about defending the nation and more about defending the regime. Opinion.
“The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing."-Archilochus.
Egypt faces a classic lose-lose proposition. And once the indispensable Arab mediator, Cairo now watches its traditional leverage erode. What will it do? Opinion.
How can one celebrate one's freedom while rushing to a safe space, living in exile or starving in a Nazi death camp? Op-ed.
Aid to displaced persons is being transferred to an affiliated organization. Report.
The legacy of Passover deeply impacted the Early Pilgrims and the Founding Fathers, and was essential in shaping of the US culture and political discourse. Op-ed.
The rise of antisemitism under Mamdani is not merely a political issue; it is a moral one. It challenges the very principles upon which New York City-and indeed the broader American project-are founded. Opinion.
Where are the hundreds of billions of dollars in military hardware that the United States and Western Europe sold to these Arab "emperors without clothes" over decades? Opinion.
To ask what an American-Israeli victory over Iran would “look like" is to assume that there exists a final state that can be identified, fixed, and preserved. There is no such state. Opinion.
The US must counter Iran’s brazen plan to impose a permanent Hormuz Toll, extorting millions from every commercial vessel seeking safe passage through the Persian Gulf. Opinion.
The percentage of Jews in Harvard was once 25%, but that number has gone down to 7% of undergraduates for next year. Op-ed.
The public must be presented with a clear list of differences in worldview and action between the national and the left-wing camps. Specifically, Likud should remind the public of the disastrous policies initiated or supported by the Left. There is a large arsenal of such material. Op-ed.
Iran is at a historic crossroads. The planned gathering of Iranians in Washington, D.C. this Sunday is a moment of collective visibility signaling that Iranians, both inside and outside the country, are aligned in their desire for a different future. Op-ed.
It could have been me. Op-ed.
With the U.S.-Israel joint operation to stop the death cult of the Islamic Republic of Iran, new fatwas were issued by Muslim clerics everywhere, obliging all Muslims (Shiite and Sunni) to take revenge. A clear call to kill Christians and Jews. Opinion.
We must do whatever is in our power to protect the status quo of the Kotel, thus protecting the status quo of halakhic decisions that come under the purview of Israel’s Chief Rabbinate. Opinion.
And the strange case of Iran's American propagandist--Calla Mairead Walsh
The most dangerous form of antisemitism is not the one that declares itself openly. It is the one that hides inside arguments that sound reasonable. Opinion.
Each Friday I try to end the week by saying Shabbat Shalom to those who have made a difference over the past few days, those who have stepped forward when it mattered most, often quietly, often without recognition. Every week the names change, but the idea remains the same, to recognise those who run towards the fire.
The Abraham Accords laid the economic and diplomatic groundwork, but the crucible of the current war has forged the true alliance, as Iran attacks GCC states. Opinion.
Europe, do you hear the gong of danger? Because it is not enough to pray, first we Europeans must save ourselves from ourselves. Opinion.
Impulsive antisemitism snares even the best of people. They don’t know they have it until it mutilates. Opinion.
