Pope Francis, did you ignore the intent of “Nostra Aetate” to garner favor with extremist Palestinianism?
Define the broad market. Break the market into segments with shared characteristics. Target the segments, each with a pinpoint strategy, Opinion.
Antisemitism, Jewish self-hatred, and resentment of Torah scholars are not separate phenomenona; they have much in common. Opinion.
It is entirely possible that an objective review of the case would free Amiram Ben Uliel from a life in prison. That makes such a review imperative and now is the time. Opinion.
The biggest mistake on the part of those either too ignorant or too timid to ban Shari’a, is that they convince themselves that Shari’a is for Muslims only, and in any case, applicable only to family matters. Opinion.
Western governments continue treating Turkey as a European partner rather than what it truly has become: a Middle Eastern power with destabilizing ambitions. Opinion.
A friend, a scholar, tells me that kids today, among the ones he teaches, find Scriptures too masculine…signs of the times, that is, our times and our new sensibilities. Opinion.
This is the only way to combat the government’s attacks on Jerusalem, a government which claims to have learned the lessons of the Holocaust by embracing the role of moral policemen tasked with preventing “their victims from relapsing.” Opinion.
In the putatively evolved 21st century, the historical scourge of rampant Jew-hatred not only gallops across the globe but has also exploded exponentially in hundreds if not thousands of colleges and universities in the USA! Opinion.
How virtue-signaling, click-seeking, and opportunism are affecting real justice.
The idea that Israel’s state prosecution and legal system can interrogate a journalist because they do not like what he wrote is the behavior of a Marxist police state. Opinion.
Religious leaders, incluing haredi leaders, must begin to define the necessary efforts to run the country and protect it from its enemies. An Israeli National Service Authority suggsts an answer. Opinion.
Children win wars, not generals. Europe and West-leaning Asia do not seem to know that simple truth. Israel does. Opinion.
How the deep state was born in Israel and why, although not exclusively, it chose to focus on the legal system. Report.
The Exodus is not a conclusion; it is a beginning. A reminder that freedom is not the destination, but the foundation point of a greater mission: to carry the legacy of the past into the promise of the future.
Hatred of Hamas doesn’t alter the endemic hatred of Israel and the Jews. Opinion.
This is part I of a 2-part article, expressing a haredi viewpoint on the conditions under which his sector might consider defending themselves instead of having others do so. It does not differentiate between those learning seriously and yeshiva dropouts.Opinion.
The State Department must act against antisemitic Blood Libels that smack of the Middle Ages.
Under the guidance of the new Chief of Staff, Zamir and Defense minister Katz, the IDF has implemented tactics consistent with the notion of “total victory.” What will that look like? Opinion.
Pure, innocent, naive idealism played a part in young early Zionists' sacrifices. Their mistake was believing that the Arabs would want to be part of their utopia. The early Zionists were massacred — and then blamed for starting the fight.Op-ed.
It can be seen in those who malign the Jewish state for a war it didn’t start and those who insist that Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria pose a threat to Mideast stability. Op-ed.
A handy guide and self-testing list of examples. Op-ed.
Curse, terrify, threaten, and beat up a visibly Jewish male or female student and then call it "free speech"? Is that what the Constitution protects? Op-ed.
More than once, President Trump said he sent a letter to Iran’s Ayatollah warning that “Iran Faces’ Bad, Bad Things” if a new nuclear deal with the United States isn’t negotiated. Op-ed.
Like the Pharoah of the Exodus, Hamas and the PA refuse to stop the hate and the killing and do what would be best for their own people because killing Jews is always more important to them. Opinion.
The hostages' Muslim captors certainly do not love them, and equally certainly seek no love from them. Eid or no Eid, we offer no love to these monsters, and it is just as well they do not seek any from us. Opinion.
A U.S. probe of the money trail to the Israeli machine operating to topple Benjamin Netanyahu should cause the movement's radical engineers to shake in their Birkenstocks. Opinion.
A different result requires a different plan. A plan of maximum pressure where the evil monsters realize that it is in their best interest to surrender and release all the remaining hostages at once unharmed. Opinion.
The Red Cross makes no mention of the hostages and appears not to care. Opinion.
The more haredim who join the army, the quicker the army will evolve into a haredi-friendly army. Opinion.
Today we trust nobody, neither the media, nor the government, nor our leaders because they lied. Opinion.
Targeting terror leaders is not just a small tactic—it is a must. But it cannot stand alone in the fight against terror groups which ignore human values, attack civilians, and threaten regional and global security. Op-ed.
Deliberate Israeli imaginations of approaching disappearance could help the People of Israel in suitably identifying what needs to be done for survival. Op-ed.
The time has come to face an ugly, undeniable truth: Gaza’s population is not going to change its stripes and must be relocated without delay. Opinion.
The Jew-hating Jews prod others while, cowards that they are, they hide behind those they prod. They love to be heard and seen but only to their limit of not endangering their lifestyle requirements. Opinion.
When Natan Sharansky asked French intellectual Alain Finkielkraut whether “European Jewry has a future in Europe,” the philosopher responded with a question: “Does Europe have a future in Europe?” Opinion.
"Bread and circuses" still works—just as it did two thousand years ago. Op-ed.
Review of a new book by Victor Sharpe.
The “protests” we saw on the streets of Gaza this week, comical in their theatricality, are designed not to save Hamas, but to save “Muslim land” from falling into infidel - read Jewish - hands, Opinion.
Beyond Muslim Azerbaijan’s relations with Israel and the United States, whether together or separately, Azerbaijan is a pro-Western country in its own right. Opinion.
The song written by Ephraim Yechman Hy"d of Gush Etzion, a student at the hesder yeshiva in Yerucham, and myself, is released here in his memory and that of all the other friends who fell fighting for the Land of Israel and its people.
The deep state operates against the will and policies of the elected representatives of the people, the very definition of working to destroy democracy. Take Ronen Bar's dismissal as exhibit one. Opinion.
Fighting this global evil requires Jews to get out in front. Opinion.
It is important for the whole society to recognize that the status quo of partial victories where reservists are required to return to the same positions every four to six years is untenable and is not fair to those reservists and to Israeli society at large. Opinion.
Many well known figures have failed.
An Interview with Rabbi Elie Abadie on the Jews of the Levant. Only seven Jews remain in Syria, a country that had a Jewish presence dating back to biblical times.
The extreme behaviors unfolding in the U.S., some insane and others also criminal, can serve as valuable lessons for Israeli society. Opinion.
The only one who believed the fake news that the left had the power to dismantle the country was Sinwar. Opinion.
Throughout the war, I have not been nearly as concerned about the future of the country as I am today. There are two red lines that must not be crossed: draft evasion and refusal to comply with the Supreme Court’s rulings. Opinion.
A lawsuit filed by hostage families proves that anti-Israel organizations are more than wrong. They are terrorist supporters, genocide-lovers, and a threat to Jews and America. Opinion.
This is a disgrace and it is a shame that we, the Nation who received the Torah at Sinai, will have to look to the Southern Baptists, the Vatican, and Muslim clerics for integrity on this matter. Opinion.
I looked at Patel’s photo several times and then pinched myself, thinking it was a joke. A mufti with a Salafi beard and in Islamic robes appointed to head the UK’s most important education body? Opinion.
What are we to make of the Western, including Israeli, ideological malaise that insists that the enemy’s mind is the same as our own mind, the enemy’s broad objectives are the same as our broad objectives and the enemy’s approach to achieving those objectives are the same as our approach. Take Witkoff, for example.
This week’s “International Conference on Combating Antisemitism” was convened without settling what or who it was going to combat. Op-ed.
The Israeli Left’s unwillingness to face the truth is a betrayal that l cannot overlook anymore.
Israel's overlooked survival obligation. Opinion.
Even if, in a hypothetical scenario, the Islamic Republic acquiesced to Trump's demands, the reality is that Islamic terrorism, oppressive governance, missile programs, and nuclear ambitions are ingrained in the very fabric of the mullahs' regime. Opinion.
Everything old is new again. Op-ed.
Short-sighted peace agreements without a serious implementation of responsible education for peace, will not provide the international community a stable and durable peaceful future. Opinion.
