Rabbi J.B. Soloveitchik wrote of six knocks. We still hear them today, but they are not only knocks of gratitude. They are also knocks of mourning, of anger, of exposure. The Beloved, however, is still knocking and outside the door.
Five times a day this death-cult prays to their Moloch. Opinion.
And the IDF is the only force in the world willing to emasculate Hezbollah to the point that Lebanon is no longer a battered wife. Opinion.
By platforming Ussama Makdisi as a moral voice on Israel, America's newspaper of record handed its op-ed page to a man who publicly said he wished he had been among those who massacred 1,200 Israelis on October 7. Opinion.
Different lives, different arenas, the same decision to draw the line.
New York State mandates Holocaust education. It's the law. But a third of Long Island voters either want it gone or won't even defend it. Opinion.
The truth is that Iran's usual approach to managing pressure, raising tensions to extract concessions, no longer produces the same outcomes. Opinion.
The jury is still out on Ahmed al-Sharaa. And it is not a theoretical question, because developments inside Syria matter far beyond its borders. Opinion.
While everyone inside Iran has suffered since the ceasefire came into effect, with the rampant repression gaining steam during the pause in fighting, Iran’s ethnic minorities in particular have felt the heat
The court and a legal bureaucracy - that were never elected -increasingly treat democratic choice itself as a dangerous force to be contained by a permanent enlightened class. And the outrage is growing. Opinion.
A successfully concluded, permanent deal ends the lucrative Saudi bailouts, American military contracts, high profile presidential phone calls - and Pakistan was never bombed so it feels no urgency. Opinion.
The word genocide is being deployed as a political weapon, detached from its legal meaning and its historical weight. This cheapens the memory of victiims of real genocide.
Why this insistence on placing Israel at the center of a decision that, by all available evidence, originated within the strategic calculus of the United States itself? Opinion.
Israel is very concerned that it may be losing America. America should be no less concerned that it’s losing Israel. Opinion.
When Carlson said that killing the murderous antisemites supporting Haman was a genocide, he erased all context, turning the victims into the aggressors and exposing a broader pattern that also removes intent from the equation. Opinion.
in Alexanderplatz, which was the stage for Hitlerian parades, DDR marches and today tourist selfies, an incredible pantomime has taken place. Opinion.
Israel exists precisely because Jews learned, at unbearable cost, that eloquence without power is fragile, and law without force is often meaningless. Opinion.
Turkey’s trajectory is not dependent on the outcome of the Iranian case - it is a function of its desire to claim leadership within the Sunni world. Israel must recognize and react to this reality. Opinion.
It is not only oil being blocked in the Strait of Hormuz, but materials crucial to crops are not going through the strait. If nothing is done, consequences wll be dire and famine is around the corner. Opinion.
The United States and Israel must not repeat the mistakes of 2015. Critiical objectives must be met by agreement or by renewed fighting, because in spite of the heavy damage inflicted on it, the Iranian regime has remained in power and continues to function. Opinon.
Only in the Jewish tradition are arguments considered the safest path to peace, harmony, and holiness. Israel today is the proof of that tradition's longevity. Opinion.
People often wonder how they would have acted had they been alive during the Holocaust. Many non-Jews seem to be failing that test today, but some have passed with flying colors and are willing to pay the price. Opinion.
The lie claiming that Jews are the hidden hand behind wars - this time the Iran War - has followed the Jewish people from Shushan to Des Moines to September 11 to the present.
The last thing the U.S. president should want is to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Opinion.
The Jewish vote is switching from the Democratic party to the Republican party and we likely will see in the next Presidential election the first time the Republican candidate receives a majority of the Jewish vote. Opinion.
The lived reality of Israelis rarely makes it into the conversation.
In the midst of war, disruption, and uncertainty, the country has continued to build, compete, innovate, and dream. That is not incidental. It is the story. Opinion.
As long as the Jewish people exists, we will continue to remember those the world tries so hard to forget:
The faces of the fallen swim before my eyes...
The link between sacrifice and statehood is not historical, it is immediate, and it remains widely misunderstood.
We say their names in the same breath as Am Yisrael Chai, because that phrase only means something because of what it cost.
The writer, a bereaved parent who lost two sons on October 7, 2023, strenghthens the Jewish People despite his pain.
Parallels can be drawn between the pre-state era and today. The current Israeli leadership must draw the necessary lessons from the historic decision made then by David Ben-Gurion-the declaration of statehood. Op-ed.
We must sustain those who came home from battle physically unhurt, but psychologically scarred. Opinion.
Gaza's future must be built on truth. And the truth is that the Jews were there first, returned again and again, and were expelled each time by force.
The scenes are worthy of the Palace of the Absurd, but the venue is called the United Nations instead. Opinion.
Why we never feel we are winning, when we really are. Opinion.
Without a permanent guarantor, we are merely subsidizing Iran’s "long game" until the next administration. Opinion.
A deep dive into Iran’s power structure, economic capture, and social rupture. Opinion.
Years ago I threw out a letter to Abe Rosenthal, then editor in chief at The New York Times, and surprisingly, he answered. Turns out, he was the boss, but was surrounded by people like Tom Friedman and needed to vent.
In a displaced persons camp in Salzburg, just days after the 5th of Iyar 5708, Holocaust survivors did not merely hear that the Jewish state had been declared. They saw redemption take form before their eyes.
The 1492 expulsion of Jews formalized the redefinition of the Jew, who had contributed so much to Spain, from neighbor to threat. People removed not only from land, but from legitimacy, just as Pedro Sanchez is doing today, having learned nothing. Opinion.
What is unfolding is the systematic embedding of Turkish institutional infrastructure into Syrian economic life at a moment when Damascus is too weak, too dependent, and too ideologically aligned with Ankara to resist. Opinion.
We understand only too well that ceasefire means nothing to terrorists. It only gives them time to reorganize until the next round. Opinion.
The intensity of the frenzy is not proportional to Israel’s misdeeds; it is directly proportional to Israel’s success.Opinion.
The story of the Jewish people has never been simply that we are still here. Op-ed.
An important piece of legislation recognizes what history, faith, and scholarship have long affirmed. Opinionl
US combat pilots attest that the IAF operates at a pace that “shatters global standards."
However you look at it, the reality on the ground suggests a volatile outcome. Opinion.
The pope’s genuflection to Islam spells disaster for Western civilization. Opinion.
Would his critique have been as forceful, as immediate, if the conflict in question did not involve Israel?
A naval blockade can create leverage against Iran, but only over time, while unrealistic expectations risk undermining the strategy itself. Analysis.
When we hold this ground through everything it demands; the wars, the worry, the grief that becomes just part of the texture of life here, we are holding it for you too.
Parts of the Diaspora are beginning to view Israel not as a source of protection and refuge, but as a problem. Their turning policy disagreements into public campaigns against Israel, particularly during wartime, crosses a line. Opinion.
Introducing modern Israel’s fearless pioneer leader, Daniella Weiss. America's Daniel Boone has met his match. Opinion.
The battle at Deir Yassin was turned into a fabricated “massacre," helping launch a strategy of demonization that is still used against Israel today. Opinion.
Those who understand Israel's existential danger are not the Islamizing Western European nations but the small, threatened ones. Opinion.
On Iran, Pope Leo tragically follows the silence of Pius XII on the Nazis and the Holocaust.
Some day, in a world in which factual accuracy is honored and things are called what they really are, Jew-hatred will again be called ‘Jew-hatred’ and we will no longer use the anachronistic term ‘antisemitism.’ Two writers write two totally disparate analyses of the phenomenon. Review.
