Commentary
The ICC Wants to Place Israel on Par With Terrorist Armies
The decision by the International Criminal Court (ICC)’s Pre-Trial Chamber on February 5, stating that the court has jurisdiction to investigate suspected war crimes...
Cultural Trends and Jewish Academics Give New Lifeline to Antisemitism
The recent struggle to remove antisemitic and anti-Israel content from a California ethnic studies curriculum demonstrated the formidable challenge posed by the academic doctrines of Critical Race Theory and "intersectionality." To the extent that Israel is...
Are Mizrahi Voters the Real Kingmakers in Israel?
As the daughter of an Ashkenazi mother and Mizrahi father, I discovered that a Mizrahi-Ashkenazi rift existed when my mother informed me that a portion of her family ceased contact after hearing that she married...
Getting to Know the Land and Animals of Israel
Last July, after dropping off my son Meir at the IDF draft office in Tiberias, and before I went to Ben Gurion Airport to catch my flight back to Los Angeles, I visited the Biblical...
Reformers Launch Group Aimed at Challenging Muslim Antisemitism
Antisemitism has become "a pandemic raging for many years" among a large number of Muslims,...
New York Times Touts Nation of Islam’s Self-Help Approach Following Attack on Capitol
In October 2020, the New York Times ran an op-ed glorifying Louis Farrakhan’s Million Man...
President Biden, Please Appoint an Antisemitism Ambassador Now
Today is Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, in Israel. On this day, we are taught...
Natalie Portman and the Use of Innocuous Forums to Attack Israel
Actress Natalie Portman is one of Hollywood’s most recognizable stars. She has featured in some...
Can Yom HaShoah Affect the Ways We Think About Medical Ethics?
We are living in the time of the “Fauci Effect.” This is not the experience...
The ICC Wants to Place Israel on Par With Terrorist Armies
The decision by the International Criminal Court (ICC)’s Pre-Trial Chamber on February 5, stating that the court has jurisdiction to investigate suspected war crimes in...
Cultural Trends and Jewish Academics Give New Lifeline to Antisemitism
The recent struggle to remove antisemitic and anti-Israel content from a California ethnic studies curriculum demonstrated the formidable challenge posed by the academic doctrines of...
Are Mizrahi Voters the Real Kingmakers in Israel?
As the daughter of an Ashkenazi mother and Mizrahi father, I discovered that a Mizrahi-Ashkenazi rift existed when my mother informed me that a portion...
Getting to Know the Land and Animals of Israel
Last July, after dropping off my son Meir at the IDF draft office in Tiberias, and before I went to Ben Gurion Airport to catch...
Reformers Launch Group Aimed at Challenging Muslim Antisemitism
Antisemitism has become "a pandemic raging for many years" among a large number of Muslims, said interfaith activist Soraya Deen. "Unfortunately though, we have no...
New York Times Touts Nation of Islam’s Self-Help Approach Following Attack on Capitol
In October 2020, the New York Times ran an op-ed glorifying Louis Farrakhan’s Million Man March and failing to provide context about Farrakhan’s antisemitism. In...
President Biden, Please Appoint an Antisemitism Ambassador Now
Today is Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, in Israel. On this day, we are taught not only to mourn the millions senselessly slaughtered in Nazi...
Natalie Portman and the Use of Innocuous Forums to Attack Israel
Actress Natalie Portman is one of Hollywood’s most recognizable stars. She has featured in some of the biggest hits of the last 25 years, playing...
Can Yom HaShoah Affect the Ways We Think About Medical Ethics?
We are living in the time of the “Fauci Effect.” This is not the experience of turning on the television and being bombarded with medical...
President Biden Must Aggressively Push to Reform the UN Human Rights Council
The Biden administration has sought to differentiate itself from its predecessor in many arenas, foreign policy included. Yet it has endorsed a self-evident truth acknowledged...
UK Prisons Are an Urgent Warning About the Threat of Islamic Radicalization
"We have become victims of our own success." Those sobering words were among the findings in a report regarding Islamic radicalization in the United Kingdom's prison...
The Future of Holocaust Remembrance
JNS.org - Yom Hashoah is a day when Jews in their homeland and around the world remember their 6 million brothers and sisters who were...
The Biden Administration’s Mideast ‘Insanity’
JNS.org - The famous quote attributed to Albert Einstein—that doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting a different result is the definition of insanity—might be...
Holocaust Education Won’t Succeed Without Storytelling
JNS.org - It’s ironic (and unacceptable) that the more we teach about the Holocaust in American schools, the less kids seem to remember it. As Jeff...
