Opinion
The War Against COVID-19 Can Unite Us
JNS.org - The past decade has witnessed perhaps the greatest degree of polarization of the...
Eating the Golden Calf
Eating plays a very important part in Jewish rituals. Once upon a time, eating sacrifices...
Taiwan and Israel: Don’t Recognize, But Collaborate
In the late 1940s, both Taiwan and the modern-day State of Israel managed to face...
Rick Steves Keeping Faith With the Mullahs, Not His Viewers
Rick Steves, the beloved producer of travel shows for PBS, has a pretty explicit agenda...
Pandemic Panic a Breeding Ground for the Virus of Jew-Hatred
JNS.org - Burned into the historical memory of the Jewish people is what happened in...
Coronavirus Is Uniting Us
JNS.org - I read in The New York Times this week that German Chancellor Angela...
Honoring the Jew Who Created Iran’s First English-Farsi Dictionary
JNS.org - As most Americans focused on Super Bowl Sunday last month, nearly 600 Iranian...
Zeinab Soleimani: Islam’s Female Avenger
Zeinab Soleimani is the daughter of Qassem Soleimani, the Iranian Quds Force commander killed in...
Findings on ISIS Refugees Further Complicate Europe’s Dilemma
It's the question that has consumed governments and counterterrorism officials since the Islamic State first...
The Palestinian ‘Right of Return’ Is Really About Destroying Israel
On January 28, President Trump revealed his administration’s long-awaited Israeli-Palestinian peace plan. As several commentators...
Judaism’s Response to the Coronavirus
The rapid spread of coronavirus has shocked us all, a shock only surpassed by the...
Jewish Voters and the Criteria for a Pro-Israel President
In 2016, I broke Jewish voters into five categories and suggested nine criteria for a...
Ethics and Communal Responsibility in the Face of Corona
In addition to the many practical challenges imposed by this ongoing crisis, the outbreak of...









