Commentary
Does High-Tech Help or Hurt Iran Protesters? New York Times Offers Conflicting Accounts
Are smartphones and social media good or bad for those protesting against Iran’s terror-sponsoring, Holocaust-denying, woman-oppressing theocracy? The New York Times can’t seem to make...
Palestinian Groups Attack and Demonize Jews as New Semester Begins
The BDS movement began the academic year with vandalism and harassment aimed at Jewish and pro-Israel students. At Cornell University, graffiti of a Star of David equaling a swastika -- and the slogan “Burn prisons, free...
Why Is the European Union Funding Palestinian Propaganda Tours to the West Bank?
A group of 11 European journalists was recently invited on a six-day tour of Jerusalem and the West Bank, in a trip that was ostensibly aimed at briefing them on the kind of aid the...
Whither the Two-State Model When Hamas Seizes Power in the West Bank?
JNS.org - Those who blithely advocate a “two-state solution” between Israel and the Palestinians invariably avoid addressing many seemingly intractable obstacles facing such a resolution to the conflict. That the current Palestinian dictatorships are harshly authoritarian...
Women’s Rights in the Middle East: Iranian Oppression and Israeli Progression
Last month, a young woman was allegedly murdered by the Iranian regime in part for...
Why Social Justice Warriors Can’t Deal With Antisemitism
JNS.org - Ruth Wisse, an emeritus professor of Yiddish literature at Harvard and an unfailingly...
Italy’s Giorgia Meloni Must Take the Side of the Iranian Protesters
JNS.org - In the midst of a sea of attacks that have branded her a...
A Political Ploy to Curb Free Speech
JNS.org - In an act of chutzpah characteristic of the Israeli left, Prime Minister Yair...
A New Year’s Resolution for Stopping Anti-Israel News
The Ten Days of Repentance -- which culminate in Yom Kippur -- is a time...
Does High-Tech Help or Hurt Iran Protesters? New York Times Offers Conflicting Accounts
Are smartphones and social media good or bad for those protesting against Iran’s terror-sponsoring, Holocaust-denying, woman-oppressing theocracy? The New York Times can’t seem to make up...
Palestinian Groups Attack and Demonize Jews as New Semester Begins
The BDS movement began the academic year with vandalism and harassment aimed at Jewish and pro-Israel students. At Cornell University, graffiti of a Star of David...
Why Is the European Union Funding Palestinian Propaganda Tours to the West Bank?
A group of 11 European journalists was recently invited on a six-day tour of Jerusalem and the West Bank, in a trip that was ostensibly...
Whither the Two-State Model When Hamas Seizes Power in the West Bank?
JNS.org - Those who blithely advocate a “two-state solution” between Israel and the Palestinians invariably avoid addressing many seemingly intractable obstacles facing such a resolution...
Women’s Rights in the Middle East: Iranian Oppression and Israeli Progression
Last month, a young woman was allegedly murdered by the Iranian regime in part for the crime of showing her hair. Yet as thousands of...
Why Social Justice Warriors Can’t Deal With Antisemitism
JNS.org - Ruth Wisse, an emeritus professor of Yiddish literature at Harvard and an unfailingly impressive commentator on the Jewish world, has uttered a desperate...
Italy’s Giorgia Meloni Must Take the Side of the Iranian Protesters
JNS.org - In the midst of a sea of attacks that have branded her a neo-fascist, Giorgia Meloni—who is poised to become Italy’s first female...
A Political Ploy to Curb Free Speech
JNS.org - In an act of chutzpah characteristic of the Israeli left, Prime Minister Yair Lapid’s Yesh Atid Party has petitioned the Central Elections Committee...
A New Year’s Resolution for Stopping Anti-Israel News
The Ten Days of Repentance -- which culminate in Yom Kippur -- is a time for reflection and introspection. How we can improve as individuals...
Auschwitz Was Not Bombed Because the World Didn’t Care
On March 5, 1943, the British air force bombed and destroyed a Krupp facility that produced artillery detonators (fuses) in the city of Essen, Germany....
American Islamists Mourn Cleric Who Defended Hitler and Called for Murdering Jews
American Islamists rushed to offer tributes this week to a radical Egyptian cleric and spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood who had a long-established history...
Yom Kippur: How to Finally Reach Your Goals This Year
One of the best chess players of all time was the son of a German chazzan, a man called Emmanuel Lasker (1868-1941). He was world chess champion...
Obama, Biden, and the Real ‘War on Women’ in Iran. Can the US Change Course?
JNS.org - Apparently, there are some mistakes from which the US foreign-policy establishment thinks it can learn. In 2009, when Iranian protesters thronged the streets...
Between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur There’s a Chance to Return to God
The Shabbat between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur is always called the Shabbat Shuvah, the Shabbat of Return. In the Torah reading, Moses -- in his...
