Commentary
Time for Both Parties to Repent for Their Nazi Analogies
JNS.org - After a generation in which Holocaust education has proliferated in the United States, it’s fair to ask whether all that lip service...
After Twenty 9/11 Anniversaries, the Sleeping Giant Nods Off Again
JNS.org - On the first anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, I wrote a column about a BBC radio program. I had been a guest along with “activist” Bianca Jagger and Anglican Church envoy...
The Real Lesson of the Afghanistan Debacle
JNS.org - The seeds of the humiliating American withdrawal from Afghanistan were laid shortly after the post 9/11 US invasion of the country, when the United States refrained from confronting Pakistan over its continued support...
Why America Values Israel Today More Than Ever
JNS.org - Despite overwhelming cultural, religious, diplomatic and military reasons for the United States to support the Jewish state financially, over the decades enemies of Israel have found a string of excuses to oppose a...
The Gilboa Prison Escape and Israel’s Fear of Rocking the Boat
JNS.org - The humiliating Gilboa Prison escape is nothing but a symptom. The flaws that...
Two Decades on, the West’s Cultural Fault Line Exposed by 9/11 Remains
JNS.org - Few of us, if any, will ever forget those terrible images of the...
The Real Lesson of 9/11 Isn’t a Story About Islamophobia
JNS.org - One of the strangest aspects of post-9/11 America has been the compulsion of...
Taliban Victory Threatens to Be a Double-Edged Sword for Pakistan
The notion that religious ultra-conservatism may not remain contained to Afghanistan may be one reason...
Why Do Jewish ‘Days’ Start at Night?
Every Yom Kippur, in synagogues across the world, there are people you never see the...
Time for Both Parties to Repent for Their Nazi Analogies
JNS.org - After a generation in which Holocaust education has proliferated in the United States, it’s fair to ask whether all that lip service paid...
After Twenty 9/11 Anniversaries, the Sleeping Giant Nods Off Again
JNS.org - On the first anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, I wrote a column about a BBC radio program. I had been a...
The Real Lesson of the Afghanistan Debacle
JNS.org - The seeds of the humiliating American withdrawal from Afghanistan were laid shortly after the post 9/11 US invasion of the country, when the...
Why America Values Israel Today More Than Ever
JNS.org - Despite overwhelming cultural, religious, diplomatic and military reasons for the United States to support the Jewish state financially, over the decades enemies of...
The Gilboa Prison Escape and Israel’s Fear of Rocking the Boat
JNS.org - The humiliating Gilboa Prison escape is nothing but a symptom. The flaws that led to it will be investigated, found and corrected, but...
Two Decades on, the West’s Cultural Fault Line Exposed by 9/11 Remains
JNS.org - Few of us, if any, will ever forget those terrible images of the 9/11 attacks on America. Twenty years on, it’s painfully clear...
The Real Lesson of 9/11 Isn’t a Story About Islamophobia
JNS.org - One of the strangest aspects of post-9/11 America has been the compulsion of so many to change the narrative about the attacks that...
Taliban Victory Threatens to Be a Double-Edged Sword for Pakistan
The notion that religious ultra-conservatism may not remain contained to Afghanistan may be one reason why US President Joe Biden decided to effectively abandon Central...
Why Do Jewish ‘Days’ Start at Night?
Every Yom Kippur, in synagogues across the world, there are people you never see the rest of the year. In my view, this is a...
The Real Lesson of the Afghanistan Debacle for Israel
The seeds of the humiliating American withdrawal from Afghanistan were laid shortly after the post-9/11 US invasion of the country, when it refrained from confronting...
Shabbat Shuvah: Why God Hides
The Shabbat between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur is always called the Shabbat Shuvah, or the Shabbat of Return. In the Torah reading this week, Moses...
Give Sports Bigotry No Sanction
Hamid Sajjadi, Iran’s recently appointed minister of sports, warned Iranian athletes in August not to compete against counterparts from the “child-killing and occupying regime of...
Media Double Standard: Only Israel Is an ‘Occupier’
On August 31st, the BBC News website published a report headlined “Cyprus on alert as Syrian oil slick spreads across Mediterranean,” on its Middle East...
Don’t Whitewash the Shameful Holocaust Record of Pope Pius XII
Some Catholic media outlets have recently been posting articles about how Pope Pius XII was not as passive in the face of the genocide of...
