From slavery to educational strategy:

How Freedom inspires visionary education

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.

Melanie Phillips:

The Gazan revolt

Hatred of Hamas doesn’t alter the endemic hatred of Israel and the Jews. Opinion.

A haredi view on army service: Part I

Finding stable ground: The future of the Jewish State

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.

An Open Letter to US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio

The State Department must act against antisemitic Blood Libels that smack of the Middle Ages.

Israel must win the peace

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.

The lies that made Zionists the villains of their own story

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.

The ‘Blame Israel First Derangement Syndrome’

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.

Are you a liberal?

A handy guide and self-testing list of examples. Op-ed.

Violence is not the same as Free Speech

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.

“Iran faces ‘bad, bad things,” What does Trump mean?

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.

It’s so simple: Stop killing Jews

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.

Message for Eid al-Fitr March 29-April 1, 2025

"Eid Mubarak". “Let us love, Let us be loved”

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.

Methinks the left doth protest too much

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 former hostage's advice:

Securing the release of the hostages

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.

Where is the Red Cross now?

The Red Cross makes no mention of the hostages and appears not to care. Opinion.

Haredi soldiers:

I enlisted in the IDF

The more haredim who join the army, the quicker the army will evolve into a haredi-friendly army. Opinion.

Jack Engelhard:

Duped

Today we trust nobody, neither the media, nor the government, nor our leaders because they lied. Opinion.

Neutralizing terror leaders as an effective strategy

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.

Endurance and Paradox: Ironic insights for Israel

Deliberate Israeli imaginations of approaching disappearance could help the People of Israel in suitably identifying what needs to be done for survival. Op-ed.

Let the Gazans go

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 paradox of the Jewish antisemite

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.

The new Jewish fear and exile from Europe

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.

A golden bullet against Anti-Zionism

"Bread and circuses" still works—just as it did two thousand years ago. Op-ed.

Politicide: The attempted murder of the Jewish state

Review of a new book by Victor Sharpe.

Gaza “protests”: the Western mind desperate for a fantasy

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.

The importance of the US-Israel-Azerbaijan strategic partnership

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.

Yerucham Hesder Yeshiva students:

Singing in memory of our friends who fell in the war

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 Legal Forum for the Land of Israel:

The Deep State in Israel

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.

Melanie Phillips:

The real cause of the antisemitism tsunami

Fighting this global evil requires Jews to get out in front. Opinion.

Israel on the road to total victory

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.

Can you answer this Democracy Quiz?

Many well known figures have failed.

Seeking to right the wrong: The story of the Jewish refugees

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 Insanity Pandemic

The extreme behaviors unfolding in the U.S., some insane and others also criminal, can serve as valuable lessons for Israeli society. Opinion.

Spoiler: There will be no civil war!

The only one who believed the fake news that the left had the power to dismantle the country was Sinwar. Opinion.

Civil war? Sadly, no longer as far-fetched as it once seemed

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.

I pledge allegiance to Hamas and the genocide for which it stands

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.

YU’s LGBTQ shame, thus Modern Orthodoxy’s shame

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.

England could become an Islamist state with nuclear weapons

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.

The minds that need to be conquered

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.

Small wonder that Jewish leaders have gotten nowhere against hate

This week’s “International Conference on Combating Antisemitism” was convened without settling what or who it was going to combat. Op-ed.

I can no longer forgive the Israeli Left

The Israeli Left’s unwillingness to face the truth is a betrayal that l cannot overlook anymore.

Avoiding intellectual conquest

Israel's overlooked survival obligation. Opinion.

The White House letter to a notorious America-hating Dictator

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.

Diaspora Youth and Israel

Everything old is new again. Op-ed.

Fake peace is dangerous for the free world

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.

Deportation Blues

Trump wants Khalil and all these other student visa campus radicals deported…saying essentially…”your fist-pumping antisemitism is not welcome here in America.” Op-ed.

Isolationist dangers of the Trump Doctrine

Defending the Western World remains America's historical responsibility and destiny

Prof. Daniel Pipes:

'Do not leave any alive': Sunnis vs. Alawites in Syria

No one knows how many unarmed Alawites were killed in Syria between March 6 and 10, but University of Oklahoma Middle East studies professor Joshua Landis estimates more than 3000. Analysis.

The hostage crisis: A test of Israel’s national resilience

As Israel grapples with the ongoing war, the growing focus on hostage negotiations raises critical questions about national endurance and the balance between immediate humanitarian concerns and long-term security imperatives. Opinion.

Throw them out already!

It’s the same exact rallies every single week. They simply change the signs or write on the back of them. Opinion.

Ken's Thought of the Week:

Dying Europe can still be saved

Systemic change is required now to save the 400 million Christians in Europe. Time is of the essence. Opinion.

Jonathan S. Tobin:

Netanyahu is right about Israel’s ‘deep state’

Like the anti-Trump “resistance,” the country’s leftist liberal establishment is waging a war against the prime minister as a bid to hold on to power, not an effort to save democracy. The existence of a “deep state” in Israel, like that in the United States, is not really debatable. Opinion.

Giulio Meotti:

In a world of carnivores, herbivores do not fare well

A new regime ruled by a former jihadist who until December had a $10 million bounty on his head, who is building an Islamic dictatorship and who has just organized a religious pogrom of Alawites is getting flooded with money from Europe. A scandal. Opinion.

INTO THE FRAY:

Gaza-Trump, truth and …“transfer”

The Trump proposal comprises a point of singularity reflecting a sharp break from past trends, and a sober recognition of the futility of the past pursuit of some mythical Palestinian Arab “peace partner.” Opinion.

We may disagree with it, but we must honor the Supreme Court

I am not naïve. I could write extensively here against our current Supreme Court. Opinion.

The moment of reckoning for Iran’s nuclear dreams

The Iranian regime's belief that a handful of nuclear weapons could guarantee its survival is only an illusion—one that may hasten its downfall. Opinion.