The test for 2028 will not be who says “I stand with Israel" the loudest. Everyone knows how to say that at a fundraiser. Opinion.
Talks must be formally suspended until Iran demonstrates, through action and not rhetoric, a willingness to operate in good faith. Opinion.
Point number 7 in SJP's 7-point plan is unequivocal in its goal "to unseat our Boards of Trustees as the dictators of our universities." Opinion.
What's next? Your guess is as good as mine and every pundit's. For one morning, a helicopter tipped the scales. And I am watching developments from the front row.
The Abraham Accords proved that Israel can rewrite regional architecture from strength. Saudi normalization, if it comes, would be the architecture's keystone. Opinion.
As the West surrenders its freedoms to Islam, Israel must develop new military alliances with India, Japan, S. Korea, Singapore and others. Asian countries, besides missiles and planes, also share more of our Jewish values than does the disintegrating west.
If Washington decides to avoid a larger war, the deeper crisis shaping the Middle East will remain unresolved - for now.
Critics may occasionally misinterpret restraint as weakness. In reality, Israel's current posture reflects immense strength.Opinion.
The Kaplanist, haredi and legal mobs irritate, aggravate, and infuriate as many innocent people as possible, not to convince them of the rightness of their views but simply to compel acquiescence to their demands. Opinion.
New York’s antisemitism crisis must not be ignored. Opinion.
The Democrats keep picking the wrong side, and then they wonder why so many of their men turn soft and feminine. Opinion.
It’s no more difficult or time-consuming to convert the 200 bombs’ worth of plutonium at Bushehr than to convert the estimated 11 bombs’ worth of uranium hexafluoride at Isfahan into nuclear weapons. Opinion.
The world is betting on Israel's future. The challenge now is ensuring that the workers, exporters, tourism businesses, young families, and future olim who built that success are not burdened by it. Opinion.
By the hour or by the news cycle. From a candidate’s SS death’s-head tattoo to a war they have arbitrarily decided is unconstitutional, the Democrats keep proving that their much-trumpeted principles are fine-tuned instruments, not broad convictions. Opinion.
What is our American President doing? Or failing to do? How can he fail to understand that he has finally met the Deal that he cannot make? Opinion.
My journey to New York exposed me to a deeply unsettling reality in what has long been considered the capital of Diaspora Jewry.
Faith drives this story forward. Not the political calculation. Not the military strategy. Not only the courage of soldiers. All of that matters. But underneath it, holding it all up, is the one who moves without fear of the what, because her trust in the Who is complete.
Context is essential: Israel strikes back. Its actions arise from survival imperatives after years of rockets, tunnels, and massacres, not from unprovoked aggression. Opinion.
Israelis may be going into shelters when the siren wails, but they know who the enemy is and that their country protects them. European Jews are abandoning multiculturalism - which doesn't include them - and coming home. Opinion.
Iran's message to Washington was unambiguous: we can hurt you, but we are choosing not to, and that choice should be compensated with concessions at the negotiating table, and with Trump telling Israel to ignore rockets from Lebanon and missiles from Iran. Opinion.
How can a little boy in the Ashkenazi community have the same name as his father?
'Never Again' isn’t just about gas chambers. it’s a way of thinking. Opinon.
You see, if you cannot tame the enemy - tame your friend instead. Even if it means insulting Israel by boasting that “I had a really good talk with Hezbollah this week," spoken only hours before Hezbollah missiles were launched again. And soldiers are being killed. Op-ed.
It is up to us, men and women of good courage, to pick up the fight for Israel, and America as well. Opinion.
Opponents of President Trump’s decision to attack Iran appear to advocate for the same failed Obama-Biden approach toward a hostile country that wants to destroy America - and would hesitate to do it. Opinion.
For the Iranian regime, the purpose of negotiations is to force America to surrender. Opinion.
The doctrine established by then Israeli Prime Minister, Menachem Begin was that any regime in the region that is hostile towards Israel would be prevented from acquiring weapons of mass destruction or nuclear weapons.
They stormed the beaches and saved the world. The roughly 160,000 Allied troops who landed in Nazi-occupied France on June 6, 1944, not only successfully executed the largest air, land and sea invasion in history, they did so amid daunting obstacles, terrible bloodshed and stakes that couldn’t have been higher.
To oppose the existence of the Jewish state while claiming not to oppose Jews is like claiming to love someone while advocating the destruction of their home, identity, and collective future. And the term “Zionist" enables that deception because it sounds ideological rather than human. Opinion.
Control of the Beaufort area is a military achievement with operational significane for Israel and psychological significance for Israelis. Opinion.
The Western Wall does not need recognition from Senator Van Hollen. But American policy does need moral clarity. Opinion.
By delivering a ceasefire on paper while Hezbollah's actual behavior guarantees its collapse, Israel and Washington have handed Tehran a paper concession that costs nothing real. Opinion.
Hitler encouraged the Mufti’s wishful thinking that assisting Germany would lead to Arab sovereignty. In reality, the Nazis intended to use him, yet the Mufti was not merely being used.
Iran's generals were watching. They are already acting accordingly. Four Republicans broke with their own president in wartime to side with a Democratic-led measure that Tehran's state media will now replay on a loop. Opinion.
An important review of U.N. Watch’s new report on an issue that is an absolute scandal - like so much else at the corrupt and irrelevant organization that was meant to serve as a beacon of hope.
If Israel wishes to upend its criteria for daycare subsidy eligibility, it must rethink the whys and hows - and do it fairly, to avoid hypocrisy and double standards. Opinion.
Freedom of expression has become an offense for which it is not worth risking assassination. Opinion.
The dismissal of Yitzhar’s security coordinator is the Conceptzia in miniature: a warped system that punishes the men who make the enemy hesitate and bankrolls the enemy who does not. Opinion.
The objective today is no longer simply to contain the outer branches of Iran’s regional network, but to weaken the central nervous system that sustains and reproduces instability across the Middle East. Opinion.
Israel has a long history of winning wars and then not being allowed to finish them decisively, forfeiting its gains during the ensuing ceasefires forced upon it by international pressure. Opinion.
Iran is little more than a depleted skeleton of a state without a functional leadership. And at that moment, Trump obsessively wants to agree to a deal that lifts sanctions on the regime, unfreezes its assets, and allows oil sales, playing negotiation games with a cheater he can never beat. Opinion.
Israel’s critics treat Israel, the restored nation-state of an ancient people, as illegitimate, while accepting without hesitation the legitimacy of states whose borders were drafted by imperial powers only a century ago. Opinion.
President Trump and the Iranian regime may have very different goals, yet both appear more comfortable with the status quo than with the compromises necessary to close a deal. Opinion.
Extortion as a diplomatic strategy. Opinion.
France's panic tells us less about humanitarian principle than about the enduring European compulsion to rescue failing actors from the consequences of their own aggression, particularly when Israel is the one delivering them.
Mr, Netanyahu, for all our sakes, do the right thing and drop this "quiet for quiet" farce.
An investigation into Adam Hamawy's 1995 testimony for the Blind Sheikh. Exposé.
If Moses owed gratitude to sand, what do Jews owe to soldiers who literally die protecting Jewish lives?
Israel’s “deep state" led by unelected bureaucrats, legal advisors, and judges has thwarted the will of the people by preventing Israel’s elected government from passing laws and ensuring policies that reflect the voters' wishes. Opinion
What is meant by the term “Dahieh"? Which area does it refer to? Report.
Hezbollah's capacity to threaten northern Israel from southern Lebanon depends entirely on its ability to control and transit terrain up to the Zahrani River and ending that is the IDF objective. Opinion.
When we want to hold this mayor accountable, let us hold him accountable for what he does in office, not for declining an invitation he should never have received. Who needed him there? Opinion.
Mamdani did what 95% of Jews did. Opinion.
Israeli ambassador Yechiel Leiter’s new booklet takes aim at grotesque falsehoods about Israel-it may not change antisemites, who do not want to be confused by the facts, but it is crucial for “singing to the choir." Opinion.
In every conflict of this magnitude, there is one variable that decides the outcome before weapons, diplomacy, or economics: determination. Op-ed.
For decades, Swiss banks have served as a repository for funds linked to "rogue regimes", dictators, and corrupt officials. A glimpse behind the “chocolate-box" image. Opinion.
While Gaza has fractured the party’s elite and the small core of its most passionate activists, most Americans don’t count it among their priorities. Opinion
Pearl-clutching about the veteran journalist possibly being sent to the New York consulate misses the point. The Jewish state needs bold advocates more than traditional diplomats.
President Trump: Don’t make a new truly democratic black African Muslim nation have to grovel to earn America’s attention. Opinion.
