Commentary
‘Gobblefunk:’ Author Roald Dahl’s Antisemitic Legacy
JNS.org - In common with many people who spent their childhood in the 1970s, I loved Roald Dahl’s novels for children, especially “Charlie and...
A Snapshot of American Jew-Hatred
JNS.0rg - Headlines reverberate with news of rising antisemitism. But how widespread is Jew-hatred in the United States? The Anti-Defamation League has queried Americans about antisemitism since 1964. Its latest survey captured changes, including the virtual...
How Worrying is the Far-Right’s ‘Day of Hate’ Stunt?
JNS.org - Far-right hate groups have got the Jewish community scared and with good reason. After the murderous synagogue shootings in Pittsburgh in 2018 and Poway in 2019, extremist antisemitic hate ceased being a theoretical...
It’s Time for Israel to Shift Gears on Iran
JNS.org - Back in 2021, when Iran started to enrich uranium to 60% purity, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) warned that this would bring the ayatollah regime closer to a nuclear bomb, noting that...
Hamas Is Planning the Next War; Is Israel’s Current Government Ready?
For the past year, Israel and the Palestinians have been in escalation mode, a phase...
A Better Way to Implement Israeli Constitutional Reform
As is often the case with Israeli strategic decision-making, the current debate in Israel on...
Peter Beinart’s Deceptive Attack on Israeli Democracy
Peter Beinart is at it again. In his latest guest opinion piece (read: political screed) for...
Israel Must Prepare to Save the World from a Nuclear Iran
This month, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared that Europe “identifies more with the Israeli...
CAIR’s Shoot First, Ask Questions Never Defamation Defense
They called her a bigot and demanded her termination, all based on the account of...
‘Gobblefunk:’ Author Roald Dahl’s Antisemitic Legacy
JNS.org - In common with many people who spent their childhood in the 1970s, I loved Roald Dahl’s novels for children, especially “Charlie and the...
A Snapshot of American Jew-Hatred
JNS.0rg - Headlines reverberate with news of rising antisemitism. But how widespread is Jew-hatred in the United States? The Anti-Defamation League has queried Americans about antisemitism...
How Worrying is the Far-Right’s ‘Day of Hate’ Stunt?
JNS.org - Far-right hate groups have got the Jewish community scared and with good reason. After the murderous synagogue shootings in Pittsburgh in 2018 and...
It’s Time for Israel to Shift Gears on Iran
JNS.org - Back in 2021, when Iran started to enrich uranium to 60% purity, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) warned that this would bring...
Hamas Is Planning the Next War; Is Israel’s Current Government Ready?
For the past year, Israel and the Palestinians have been in escalation mode, a phase that began under the previous Israeli government. The sparks that lit...
A Better Way to Implement Israeli Constitutional Reform
As is often the case with Israeli strategic decision-making, the current debate in Israel on a semi-constitutional reform is being carried out in an improvised...
Peter Beinart’s Deceptive Attack on Israeli Democracy
Peter Beinart is at it again. In his latest guest opinion piece (read: political screed) for The New York Times, Beinart uses the ongoing domestic Israeli...
Israel Must Prepare to Save the World from a Nuclear Iran
This month, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared that Europe “identifies more with the Israeli position” on Iran’s nuclear program, a conclusion he reached after...
CAIR’s Shoot First, Ask Questions Never Defamation Defense
They called her a bigot and demanded her termination, all based on the account of a 7-year-old. Now, attorneys argue that the Council on American-Islamic Relations...
Do Child Victims of the Holocaust Explain Israel’s Baby Boom?
I recently read 50 Children, by Steven Pressman, a 2014 book that describes how Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus, a Jewish couple from Philadelphia, brought 50...
Inciting Violence and Supporting Terrorism at Israel’s Bezalel Art School
Established in Jerusalem in 1906, the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design is considered one of Israel’s prestigious academic institutions for the study of Art,...
Shabbat Terumah: The Lost Ark and Why Objects Don’t Connect Us to God
The Tabernacle was the House of God, symbolizing the Divine Presence. It was the center of religious ceremonies. The Mishkan, as it was called, was the...
New York Times Under Fire for ‘Inaccurate, Misleading’ Report on Hasidic Schools
Even after the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) expressed “outrage” and denounced the New York Times coverage of yeshivas as “irresponsible,” the New York Times is redoubling...
Dartmouth Student Newspaper Article Slanders Birthright Israel
Earlier this month, Ramsey Alsheikh, the president of Dartmouth College's Palestine Solidarity Coalition, published an article in the student newspaper, The Dartmouth, titled "Alsheikh: Hillel,...
