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.
After the digital age begat Twitter and Facebook mobs, the paper of record bid a fatal farewell to objectivity. On the Iran war ‘all the news that’s fit to print’ roots for the regime. Opinion.
If the Iranian regime isn’t totally defanged but survives to recover and rearm, it will not only continue to menace the region. Such an outcome will also advertise that the leader of the free world is a paper tiger. Opinion.
Recent acts of hatred and cowardice in the West perfectly encapsulate the unique ability antisemitism possesses to destroy the civilizations it infects. Opinion.
In covering the misnamed 'Arab Spring', later cynically dubbed the 'Arab Winter,' media provided sycophantic and uncritical analysis of Obama's moves, while treatment of the war with Iran is tinged by reluctance to say anything positive about Trump. Or Israel.
Should students escape as fast as possible to home since missiles are falling and they are on their own in Israel? Or should they stay in Israel because Israel is home and it’s the right thing to do? Opinion.
The lessons of 1979 are clear: strategic hesitation carries long-term consequences. Is this going to be a definitive war that defeats the oppressor? Iranians are waiting. Opinion.
The US-Israeli war against Iran is not failing-the media's analysis is. Here is what is really going on. Analysis.
'Let my people go" iis only half the verse Moses said to Pharaoh in G-d's Name. While the first part of the verse took years of fighting to free Soviet Jewry, the end of the verse -'so they can serve Me' was ignored. A memoir.
There may no longer be a single, coherent entity that can be called “Iran" in the context of negotiations. Opinion.
Should Israeli municipalities insist that storefront signs include Hebrew or should they not? In either case, why? Op-ed.
God orchestrates destiny and history so that the Jewish People always win.
The human mind is built to respond to images and narrative, not to cross-reference satellite data and dig for facts. Opinion,
Kharg Island is not just an Iranian asset; it is a global pressure point whose fate could influence Israel’s security environment for years to come. Opinion,
The United States does not need Israel to tell it that Iran is a threat. The evidence is written in blood-American blood-spilled over decades of unprovoked aggression. Opinion.
Pope Leo suggested recently that Christian political leaders who start wars should "go to confession". NYC Councilman James Gennaro responds.
What happens when a society no longer recognises the moment it has gone too far. Opinion.
Israel’s claim to be the “only democracy in the Middle East" has become increasingly farcical. Opinion.
Preventing catastrophe rarely looks reasonable in the present. It looks premature. It looks aggressive. It looks unpopular. Until the catastrophe arrives. Opinion.
We Europeans are a bunch of cowards who have lost the sense of sovereignty and reciprocity. Opinion.
The Director of National Intelligence assessed that Iran remains committed to its decade-long effort to develop surrogate networks inside the United States. Examples aboung, starting in 1979. Opinion.
There is a particular kind of loneliness that comes with living here and watching how the outside world talks about us and contextualizes the barbaric murders of our children. Opinion
It's not just Netanyahu they hate at Cornell - it's Israelis in general. Op-ed.
Jabotinsky’s words of many years ago are still relevant today. Opinion.
Iran’s missiles are no longer a Middle East problem. Europe hasn’t noticed. Opinion.
The primary, overarching target is the regime’s very claim to absolute authority. The coalition’s most potent tactical opening lies precisely in the exploitation of this glaring succession void. Opinion.
An Iranian shares his thoughts, hopes and fears. Op-ed.
Show trials, torture, public hangings - how the Iranian regime cows its citizens. Opinion.
There is a line I come back to often when trying to explain what it means to be a Jew.
Not argument as mere disagreement, still less as rhetorical combat, but as a disciplined, structured, and socially sanctioned process through which ideas are tested, refined, and, if necessary, dismantled. Opinion.
Churchill's words in 1921 are as relevant now as they were then, let alone Menachem Begin's. Op-ed.
The writer sees three options open to Trump at this point in time, not necessarily the same as Israel's. Opinion.
Sometimes diplomacy doesn’t begin with treaties or official visits. Opiniion.
The war with Iran is clarifying who is for civilization against barbarism-and who is not. Opinion.
By reopening Rafah now, Israel risks providing the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) with a logistical reset button. Opinion.
If there is one nation that has stood on the front lines of global security, often at great cost and with minimal support, it is Israel. But instead of being thanked, it is condemned. Op-ed.
This war of the future will be fought not only with swords, but with words and speech against a virulent ideology masquerading as a theology. Opinion.
Defeatism is the worn-out garment of decadent Western ruling classes. Not so the US and Israel. Opinion.
