Stop. Just for one day. Put it down. Zoom out. Look at your life from above the grind and ask yourself what’s actually there. What you’ve built, who you love, what you believe, where you’re going.
He got up on a stage in Vienna, in an arena full of people who ranged from cheering fans to those actively chanting for his country’s destruction, and he performed. Op-ed.
We live. We really live. We make it count in the most ordinary ways possible, because the ordinary is what gets taken. Opinion.
New York State mandates Holocaust education. It's the law. But a third of Long Island voters either want it gone or won't even defend it. Opinion.
We say their names in the same breath as Am Yisrael Chai, because that phrase only means something because of what it cost.
When we hold this ground through everything it demands; the wars, the worry, the grief that becomes just part of the texture of life here, we are holding it for you too.
She was older and she was small and she began to tell us what had happened to her, slowly, in detail, with a kind of pain that exists outside of language. Op-ed.
There is a moment when the call is not to learn, not to daven, not to deliberate. The call is to walk into the sea.
Those who can see the light know exactly what they are looking at.
There is a particular kind of loneliness that comes with living here and watching how the outside world talks about us and contextualizes the barbaric murders of our children. Opinion
He fought with his life. I fought with what I had. Op-ed.
The real tragedy isn’t what happens to us. It’s what happens to our children, and their children. Opinion.
God is looking for something else entirely. Opinion.
Our nation knows how to defend itself but hesitates to define itself. Opinion.
God does not do anything by accident. Not now. Not last year, not a thousand years ago. Not ever.
Hanukkah does not celebrate violence. It rejects illusion. It reminds us that light does not survive on intention alone. The light survives because someone is willing to protect it. There is no automatic happy end. Opinion.
There is only a single, unbroken truth: This is a battle between light and darkness and the line between them is absolute.
In the strange universe of Western celebrity culture, elevating a man with his record is easier and more fashionable than demanding the release of 251 innocent people who were kidnapped for the crime of being Israeli, which these celebs did not find reason to do. Opinion.
We built a state, but the instinct to explain ourselves, to ask permission from the nations of the world, still lingers. It's time to embrace our destiny and stop apologizing. Opinion.
I’m scared. I’m scared for this city. And for the rest of America. Curtis Sliwa must step down, not because he is undeserving, but because he really cares about America. Opinion.
The friendship between America and Israel isn’t built on convenience, but on shared belief in God, in freedom, and in moral clarity. Opinion.
When you leave evil breathing, you don’t preserve morality. You postpone tragedy. Opinion.
The other side of the deal. Opinion.
Across the region, something unimaginable is happening: the Arab world is no longer standing with Hamas it’s standing back. Opinion.
We long for a world where all the nations will one day come together in Yerushalayim to pray.
There was only one voice, one figure, one moment that broke the pattern of Hollywood's shameful embrace of terrorists. Opinion.
Like after 9/11, it is a time to decide whether we still produce men and women willing to speak without fear, to live without apology, to stand where Charlie stood. Opinion.
Almost 700 days later, that morning still lives inside me. Op-ed.
Every generation has faced those who sought to erase us, and every generation has answered with the same stubborn declaration: Am Yisrael Chai. Opinion.
This was not immigration that I saw this morning at the airport when 225 olim arrived. This was covenant.
Then I was sitting in New York...now I live in Israel. Opinion.
Tisha B’Av is not a history lesson. It’s a mirror. And the reflection we see this year should shake us. Opinion
I am already reciting Kinot with every headline, every funeral, every fallen soldier. Opinion.
So far, instead of hostility, I’ve encountered moments of unexpected connection. Instead of fear, glimpses of hope. And that matters. Op-ed.
Peace does not come from weakness. It comes from truth. And now, it is pain, not peace, that occupies our minds. Opinion.
Leadership is not always linear. And Divine Providence rarely unfolds in straight lines. Imagine if you had lived in Egypt in Moses' time. Opinion.
From Fordow to freedom, from fear to faith, we continue to sing.
“So the king’s scribes were summoned at that time, in the third month — that is, the month of Sivan — on the twenty-third day of it; and it was written according to all that Mordechai commanded…” (Esther 8:9). And the 23rd of Sivan is tomorrow.
So call it strategy. Call it strength. Call it resolve. But I call it what it is: the hand of God. Opinion.
From Pharaoh to Haman, from Caesar to Hitler—history is littered with the bones of those who tried to erase the Jewish people. Opinion.
Greta isn’t brave. She was not breaking a blockade. She broke trust with every real victim of terror, every hostage family, and every Israeli who still has to check the sky for rockets or the ground for tunnels. Opinion.
To every Jew feeling isolated, gaslit, or afraid: No, you’re not crazy. Yes, the threat is real. Op-ed.
In 2025, the war for Israel is also being waged in pixels and posts. And misinformation in the wrong hands doesn’t just mislead—it incites. Op-ed.
A new wave of digital demagogues build followings by turning conflict into content. And while they claim to stand for the oppressed, they’ve never once stood for the truth. Opinion.
To be a Jew is to carry unanswered questions and unrelenting trust. To sing lullabies over fresh graves and still whisper: “Shema Yisrael.”
Aren't we a nation that knows its survival depends on thinking beyond the now? Opinion.
The dangerous rise of TikTok prophets like Guy Christensen, untrained, ungrounded and unchecked digital demagogues. Opinion.
In tribute to the man who gave me my first taste of what it meant to be rooted in a place that isn’t just ours by history, but by heart.
We live in a time where unity is no longer a luxury — it’s a matter of survival. Opinion.
Israel isn’t free of armed guards or soldiers. But that’s not a sign of fear — it’s a sign of agency. Opinion.
It's more than a name on a plane. Opinion.
Maybe the world isn’t as full of Israel-haters as we feared. Opinion.
Despite everything, we stay. But more than that — we come. Opinion.
in Israel, we don’t leave each other behind. Even when we can’t stand—we show up. Op-ed.
But why did it take a missile near Ben Gurion?
Terrible things can happen when terror becomes background noise. When the world shrugs — and worse, when we shrug with it. Opinion.
The hostage dilemma we can’t keep avoiding. We are doing everything we can to bring them home — and we must continue to do so. But we cannot destroy Israel in the name of saving it. Opinion.
