Commentary
How The New York Times’ Misreporting Has Distorted History
The Gray Lady Winked: How the New York Times’s Misreporting, Distortions and Fabrications Radically Alter History by Ashley Rindsberg (Midnight Oil Publishers, 2021) In his...
Human Rights Watch’s Evolving Definition of Apartheid
If Israel is guilty of "apartheid," as Human Rights Watch (HRW) and B'Tselem now say, what changed that those organizations didn't use the word beforehand? Israel's policies are identical to what they were 10 and 20...
What the Media Won’t Tell You: The Root Cause of Riots in Jerusalem
Coinciding with the Islamic fasting month of Ramadan, the streets of Jerusalem have been plagued by increasingly violent Palestinian protests. Night after night, hundreds of Palestinians, some of them hurling fireworks, rocks, and petrol bombs,...
There Can Never Be Peace With Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps
When Ali Khamenei was appointed Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic, he knew he lacked Khomeini’s charisma. He needed the power of the military to subdue his rivals and consolidate his position, and accordingly pulled...
Mount Meron: A Personal Account
JNS.org - As ecstatic songs rang through the hills, I tried to enter the stadium...
New York Courts Prove That Woke Politics Endangers Jews
JNS.org - For those who think that the cause of social justice is not merely...
How to Keep Zionism Alive for Generation Z
What is in store for the relationship between Zionism and Generation "Z"? The answer to that...
Stop Justifying the Deaths of the Meron 45
My daughter called me before the Sabbath in terrible pain. Beyond trying to process the...
Sholem Aleichem and Stolen Dreams
In a newly-translated story in Tablet magazine, Sholem Aleichem recounts the extraordinary Passover of one...
How The New York Times’ Misreporting Has Distorted History
The Gray Lady Winked: How the New York Times’s Misreporting, Distortions and Fabrications Radically Alter History by Ashley Rindsberg (Midnight Oil Publishers, 2021) In his new...
Human Rights Watch’s Evolving Definition of Apartheid
If Israel is guilty of "apartheid," as Human Rights Watch (HRW) and B'Tselem now say, what changed that those organizations didn't use the word beforehand? Israel's...
What the Media Won’t Tell You: The Root Cause of Riots in Jerusalem
Coinciding with the Islamic fasting month of Ramadan, the streets of Jerusalem have been plagued by increasingly violent Palestinian protests. Night after night, hundreds of...
There Can Never Be Peace With Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps
When Ali Khamenei was appointed Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic, he knew he lacked Khomeini’s charisma. He needed the power of the military to...
Mount Meron: A Personal Account
JNS.org - As ecstatic songs rang through the hills, I tried to enter the stadium around the grave of the Mishnaic sage and spiritual luminary,...
New York Courts Prove That Woke Politics Endangers Jews
JNS.org - For those who think that the cause of social justice is not merely an element integral to Judaism but its main focus, this...
How to Keep Zionism Alive for Generation Z
What is in store for the relationship between Zionism and Generation "Z"? The answer to that question depends entirely on the actions we as leaders take...
Stop Justifying the Deaths of the Meron 45
My daughter called me before the Sabbath in terrible pain. Beyond trying to process the deaths of religious Jews at Mount Meron on Lag B’Omer,...
Sholem Aleichem and Stolen Dreams
In a newly-translated story in Tablet magazine, Sholem Aleichem recounts the extraordinary Passover of one family in pre-war Poland. The narrator is a young boy...
France Joins UK in Seeking Tighter Security Measures on Released Terrorists
In light of recent Islamic terror attacks, French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin is calling for stringent security measures to be placed on convicted terrorists being...
Ukraine, Russia and the West: Could War Erupt?
Having used brutal force to crush nationwide demonstrations in support of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny, President Vladimir Putin has now embarked on a new venture....
Can a Disaster Breed Jewish Unity or Widen the Communal Breach?
JNS.org - There is nothing positive to be gleaned from an event that led to the deaths of 45 Jews and injuring of 150 others....
Mount Meron and Israel’s Paradoxical Nature
JNS.org - On Saturday night, as Tel Aviv’s City Hall lit up with the image of the Israeli flag to commemorate the dozens killed and...
Why Human Rights Watch Is Attacking Israel’s Law of Return
JNS.org - If you’re Jewish and live in the Diaspora, chances are there’s been some event in the news or in politics that at some...
