When Israelis ask Washington to take action against Jews in Judea and Samaria, followed by Bret Stephens and the WSJ, they are ignoring the context of Arab terrorism and attempting an end run around democracy for political reasons. Opinion.
President Trump is continuing his gratuitous onslaught of demeaning behaviors. This means that while Iran is acting rationally in its current war, the United States is not. Opinion.
Israel, the nation that beat Hamas to a pulp in response to the slaughter of Oct. 7, 2023, gets to play the part of the loser in Trump's peace plan. Opinion.
A campaign aimed at weakening the regime’s governing capacity. Opinion
Condemning the few episodes of Jewish lawlessness as if comparable to non-stop Palestinian Arab terrorism-or pretending that statehood will cure it - is not only ignorant, it is downright dangerous. Opinion.
This week’s Shabbat Shalom is dedicated to four reasons why, even now, we should continue to choose hope.
The Iranians succeed by intimidation and violence while the West tries to avoid confrontation by negotiating with them. We know where that is headed. Opinion.
Until they can acknowledge their own culpability and suspend their cognitive dissonance, Jewish progressives will remain lost in the weeds of their dogmatic swamp. Opinion.
Jewish leaders need to quickly close the gap that has opened up between Zionism and Judaism. Anti-Zionism, which would destroy the religion by detaching it from the land, is inescapably anti-Judaism. And Bret Stephens fell into the trap. Opinion.
Boy George's blunt new song about October 7 is causing a stir. He deserves our support for having the courage to speak up. Opinion.
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini secured power by making promises to President Jimmy Carter that he never intended to keep. Today, President Donald Trump is responding to Iran's duplicity with a fundamentally different approach. Opinion.
Israel must elect enough committed nationalists to ensure that its next government reflects the will of those voters rather than outside political pressure. Opinion.
No amount of aid can guarantee food security if humanitarian organizations are obstructed, supplies are diverted, or aid workers are threatened. A critique of the latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification report.
There is no Jewish conspiracy to dominate the world, but there is a widespread global anti-Jewish conspiracy based on the principles of digital and online anti-Semitism. And it comes from China and Russia. Opinion.
Fran Belzberg was fortunate to receive many honors, but those who knew and loved her understood that making a difference, not receiving awards and recognition, was always what mattered most to her.
Statehood is not an experiment. Opinion.
The Jewish Agency's claim that "pluralistic Judaism" was a founding pillar of Zionism fails every test - historical, religious, and institutional. Opinion.
Why Is There No Place for the Continued Activity of a Foreign Force in Southern Lebanon?
The three greatest strategic blunders in the history of Israel were made by renowned generals who were elected prime minister.
How did they feel about Joe Biden, their Democrat? They loved him...Opinion.
The death of human dignity is tragic. The tragedy becomes even deeper when violence is presented in the language of holiness. Opinion.
Negotiations have become another battlefield - one where Iran uses the time to restart and America relies on diplomacy. Opinion.
The Republicans are bringing a knife to a gunfight. The Democrats will bring a tank if gifted the chance. Opinion.
Marco Rubio gunning for the ICC could take an object lesson from Trump’s learning curve. The longer he sought to make Tehran’s Mullahs and Mafiosi respect his MOM (Memorandum of Misunderstanding) the more he realised they were “scum" “liars" and “sick." Op-ed.
As the world celebrated the collapse of apartheid, communism, and Nazism, so too the day will eventually come when Islamist terrorism meets the same fate. Opinion.
Mamdani’s dangerous campaign of lies and defamation against Netanyahu and Israel. Opinion.
The Mayor of New York has turned the Jewish state, the Jewish people, and its democraticallye elected leader, into a collective Dreyfus. Op-ed.
Static defences encourage adaptation rather than surrender. Opinion.
If the State Department itself warns about Hamas financing and Russian missiles, why is Washington still debating advanced fighter aircraft for Turkey? Opinion.
If the perpetrators are migrants, then their female rape victims don’t count. And there are horrifying numbers of these victims. Opinion.
Our very own celebrity-DJ acting the part of a politician, certainly not the part of a mayor, Opinion.
Was one of Hamas’s most powerful leaders once an Israeli intelligence source-and did he later use that trust to help engineer Israel’s greatest strategic deception? Opinion.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani should be held to account for libelous incitement against Israel and the Jews. Opinion.
“It seemed to me that I could smell the fumes and the fire." Op-ed.
The US has no obvious strategy to protect our culture and simultaneously undermine that of our enemies culture.
An essay that examines, for the first time, a specific aspect of European Jewish art's historical perspective over a period of 150 years, from the second part of the XIX century till today: The aspect of love expressed in the Jewish artists’ works depicting synagogues.
The false accusations that reshaped the world's understanding of Israel and the evidence that the oppoite was true that struggled to catch up. Opinion.
Iran has already shown that it is willing to put Israel’s energy assets in its target bank, and Israel has already shown that it takes this threat seriously enough to invest in suitable defense capabilities and to shut down part of the infrastructure on its own.
Mamdani leads the way. Good people. Decent people, they fall for it blindingly wholesale. Like the Germans were brainwashed by Hitler. Opinion.
Faith does not mean pretending that suffering is not real. Faith means refusing to let suffering have the final word. When the physical Temple was destroyed, Jews took the idea of it with them into exile, learning the Talmud and praying to return and rebuild it.
My hope is that Tisha B’Av will increasingly become the day on which Jews ask not only why the Temple was destroyed, but whether Jewish society is becoming worthy and capable of receiving it again.
Mamdani is an Israel-hater, a Jew-hater, an America-hater, and a radical Islamist who was raised to hate. Opinion.
Come greet Moshiach as a local Israeli resident and not as a tourist. Unfortunately, Jews did not do this during “Bayit Sheni" but history does not have to repeat itself.
The expulsion of the Jews from Spain took place on Tisha B'Av 1492. Now it is the Christians who will soon have no place in Spain. Opinion.
New York’s mayor isn’t able to arrest Israel’s prime minister. But the widespread belief in the “genocide" blood libel illustrates how toxic ideologies, AI and social media are defeating facts. Opinion.
If Tisha B'Av were taking place in a courtroom today, who would we place in the dock? Opinion.
An entire maritime gateway is planned for outside the potential chokepoint at the strait, redirecting a growing share of energy exports and trade away from the direct line of threat. Opinion.
Iran is replacing blasted Fordow with a more impenetrable hiding place for centrifuges. What should the response be? Opinion.
As Israeli minister Ofir Akunis put it, he might try running New York City and only New York City. The constituency being served here is not New York. It is the segment of his base for whom hating the Jewish state is the organizing obsession of political life. Opinion.
Britain suffers from a broken moral operating system. I want to suggest one treatment entirely within our own control. Opinion.
We are only in the first act of an Israeli- Shakespearian drama of 'reconciling ' the relationship of haredi society to mainstream Israeli society.
JD Vance’s onspiratorial obsessions betray reality, undermine leadership, ancd misplace blame on Israel. Opinion.
Today when Israel is troubled on all sides, from without and within, here’s a short story to help cheer up our spirits. Fantasy.
And where would JD Vance stand in that hypothetical scenario ? Opinion.
The Massie amendment failed, but 103 Democrats voted to eliminate military assistance to Israel. The warning is not only for Jerusalem-it is for American Jewry. Op-ed.
Even if Iran stays non-nuclear, its drone and ballistic missile capabilities could prod Israel to issue measured nuclear threats, with various options that must be carefully considered. Opinion.
Is it any wonder that the talking points, slogans and placards are virtually all the same in the contrived charades we see? It’s all so scripted and rehearsed. Opinion.
Very little changes in our Jewish lives, as we listen to American Democrats scream 2,000 year-old Jew-hating chants…so wake up Rahm Emanuel, because you will be crowned Pope of the Catholics before you are elected President of the United States. Opinion.
There are Torah-true teachings that haredi ideology has ignored and subordinated to the preservation of haredi separateness. Opinion.
