Jacob Sivak
ARTICLES BY: Jacob Sivak
The Israeli Cost of the War in Gaza
Gwyne Dyer, a widely syndicated British-Canadian columnist, who describes himself as a military historian knowledgeable about the Middle East, recently compared the number of civilian...
What Happens to Holocaust Memory When There Are No Living Survivors?
It was reported in The Times of Israel that 70% of the 200,000 Holocaust survivors alive today will be gone in the next 10 years. How will...
The Sky Is Not Falling, Israel Will Not Disappear
I was born and raised in Canada, an affluent country, rich in natural resources. An old joke tells us that when Moses was leading the...
Do the Jewish People Know That Our People Never Actually Left the Land of Israel?
Yossi Klein Halevi, senior fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute, describes how anti-Zionists in academia have systematically challenged the moral basis of the Jewish/Zionist story....
Ireland: Antisemitism Without Jews
When Gideon Sa’ar, Israel's Foreign Minister, recently announced the closure of Israel’s embassy in Ireland because of Ireland’s antisemitic actions and anti-Israel posture, it led...
Russian Jews Are Still Coming to Israel
I was young when I first learned about the six million Jews who died in the Holocaust. I knew that this number represented two thirds...
Change in the Middle East? Don’t Hold Your Breath
One year after Hamas' October 7 massacre, I noticed a cluster of articles in various sources referring to strategic realignments among some of the players...
What if the Second Temple Hadn’t Been Destroyed?
Tisha B’Av -- the ninth day of the Jewish month of Av -- is referred to as the saddest day on the Jewish calendar. It...
100 Years Later, Zionism Is Still a Survivalist Imperative
A recent article in The Jerusalem Post, describes a planeload of French Jews making Aliyah to Israel, in spite of the continuing war with Hamas...
How to Fight Anti-Israel Lies in a Post-Truth World
Shortly after the events of October 7, when Hamas attacked, killed, raped, and mutilated 1200 Israelis in southern Israel, including babies, a graduate student at...
Israeli Kibbutzism Contain Startling Businesses – and Drive the ‘Start-Up Nation’
The Israeli economy was booming in 2023. According to International Monetary Fund figures, total GDP had reached $664 billion, and per capita GDP hit $58,270...
Counting Jews in Israel: The ‘Other’ Is Not Enough
On November 7, 2023, just one month after the Hamas massacre of Israelis and the onset of the war in Gaza, The Jerusalem Post’s Zvika...
Jews Are Indigenous to Israel; They Are Not Colonizers
"Decolonize Palestine" and "Colonizers Back to Europe" are the demands of pro-Palestinian activists at protests that erupted in North America and Europe after October 7....
The Simchat Torah Pogrom: Searching for Remorse in the Arab World
The Simchat Torah terror attack by Hamas resulted in the murder of approximately 1,400 Israelis, mostly civilians. Thousands were injured, and a reported 200 were...
