The modern Diaspora was built on an unspoken assumption: if Jews contributed enough to their host societies, they would be accepted as full members of them. That bargain is over. Only Israel grants Jews full membership. Opinion.
New York City's Jews may face a “clear and present danger" due to their mayor's rhetoric. And too little is being done about it. Opinion.
The West has turned its values - sexual freedom, gender equality, protection of minorities - into weapons against itself. Opinion.
For fifty years, Palestinian Arab leaders have accepted concessions without surrendering their objective or capacity to resume the fight. The new Gaza roadmap preserves that playbook. Opinion.
When Mamdani blasted Netanyahu, and thus all the Jewish people, yes, who rose up in New York City to denounce him? It's deja vu all over again, just like docile European Jewry facing Hitler's henchmen. Opinion.
The people hired to teach young American Jews are, by a majority, on the record against the Jewish state. The widest study ever conducted proves it. Report.
Mr. President, a regime that lies about whether it is even in the room is not a negotiating partner. It is an adversary using your announcements as cover. Opinion.
If you want to know where Britain's new Prime Minister is taking the country, don't listen to his speeches, watch who he empowers. Opinion.
The speech I wish no generation had to hear-and the one every generation of Jews eventually needs.
The physics that built a fortune-and what followed.
NYC residents are about to learn the difference between being taken care of and being managed. They voted for it and now they are about to get it. At the municipal grocery store. Op-ed.
In talking with IDF soldiers, Jonathan Pollard hears opinions that should be carefully listened to by decision makers.
Ceuta is not the only place where Spain is an occupier. Opinion.
This is what Jewish Democrats are becoming - backers of anti-Israel candidates. Are you one of them? Opinon.
Using the term "West Bank" shows how thoroughly some Israelis have internalized the language of their adversaries. Opinion.
Arnold Roth’s 25-year fight for accountability for the terrorist who planned the murderous attack that killed his daughter and her friend at the Sbarro in Jerusalem.
Dear President Trump, you did an excellent job at first but aren't you now starting to behave like most politicians, destroying with one hand what the other hand has painstakingly built?
Safety and a Jewish future brought families to Florida. Israelis know what it takes to keep both. Opinion.
A proposal that is different: barriers that separate Gaza's population from Hamas. Details below. Op-ed.
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.
