Commentary
Religious Pluralism Won’t Be Achieved in the Courts
JNS.org - Reactions to this week’s Israeli Supreme Court ruling about recognizing the validity of conversions to Judaism by non-Orthodox denominations are all out...
Macron Deserves Credit for Trying to Unite France
JNS.org - What holds a nation together? In some cases, it’s blood, soil and language (think Japan). In some cases, it’s a police state (think Iran). But countries that are democratic and diverse, what we might...
Robbing Israel’s Far-Left Labor Leader of Plausible Deniability
JNS.org - Much of the Israeli right is furious about the Supreme Court ruling on Sunday that Labor Party candidate Ibtisam Mara’ana-Menuhin is kosher to run for a Knesset seat in the March 23 election. The ruling...
Iran’s Winged Horse Rocket: Another Step Towards Global Reach
JNS.org - On Feb. 2, 2008, Iran became the ninth space-faring nation when it successfully orbited its first satellite, the “Omid,” using its newly developed “Safir” rocket, an adaptation of the “Shahab 3” military ballistic...
Lokman Slim’s Murder Shows That Assassinations Continue to Target Hezbollah Critics in Lebanon
Lebanon is a country marred by a myriad of calamities, from terrorism and assassinations, to...
Remembering an Early Jewish Feminist and Abolitionist
Before the Civil War, upstate New York was called “the burned over district,” because it...
The President of Tunisia Slanders the Jews
Ten years after the so-called “Arab Spring” began in Tunisia, that country is in the...
Abbas Reportedly Refused to Let Israel Vaccinate Thousands of Palestinians, Yet the Media Is Silent
The Times of Israel recently reported: Israeli officials reportedly sent a request last week to the...
‘Nurses’ and the Danger of Mainstreaming Antisemitism
Hardly a day passes without reading of someone, somewhere uttering an antisemitic trope. That part...
Religious Pluralism Won’t Be Achieved in the Courts
JNS.org - Reactions to this week’s Israeli Supreme Court ruling about recognizing the validity of conversions to Judaism by non-Orthodox denominations are all out of...
Macron Deserves Credit for Trying to Unite France
JNS.org - What holds a nation together? In some cases, it’s blood, soil and language (think Japan). In some cases, it’s a police state (think...
Robbing Israel’s Far-Left Labor Leader of Plausible Deniability
JNS.org - Much of the Israeli right is furious about the Supreme Court ruling on Sunday that Labor Party candidate Ibtisam Mara’ana-Menuhin is kosher to run...
Iran’s Winged Horse Rocket: Another Step Towards Global Reach
JNS.org - On Feb. 2, 2008, Iran became the ninth space-faring nation when it successfully orbited its first satellite, the “Omid,” using its newly developed...
Lokman Slim’s Murder Shows That Assassinations Continue to Target Hezbollah Critics in Lebanon
Lebanon is a country marred by a myriad of calamities, from terrorism and assassinations, to the massive explosions that devastated Beirut in August. Political assassinations...
Remembering an Early Jewish Feminist and Abolitionist
Before the Civil War, upstate New York was called “the burned over district,” because it was ablaze with religious enthusiasm. School reform, prison reform, various...
The President of Tunisia Slanders the Jews
Ten years after the so-called “Arab Spring” began in Tunisia, that country is in the headlines once again. A series of violent demonstrations have taken...
Abbas Reportedly Refused to Let Israel Vaccinate Thousands of Palestinians, Yet the Media Is Silent
The Times of Israel recently reported: Israeli officials reportedly sent a request last week to the Palestinian Authority and the Jerusalem Muslim Waqf asking that the...
‘Nurses’ and the Danger of Mainstreaming Antisemitism
Hardly a day passes without reading of someone, somewhere uttering an antisemitic trope. That part is not new; for millennia, this has been the norm....
New York Dems’ BDS Debate Shows the Power of the Woke Left
JNS.org - Most Americans don’t pay much attention to New York City politics. As one of the deepest blue political bastions in the country, the...
The Senate’s Role in Military and International Affairs
JNS.org - US President Joe Biden ordered airstrikes late last week in eastern Syria against the Iranian-controlled militias, Kata’ib Hezbollah and Kata’ib Sayyid al-Shuhada. This...
How to Fight the Culture Wars
JNS.org - To anyone not living or hiding under a rock, the culture war rages all too loudly and visibly around us. In that war,...
How Antisemitism Killed Christians and How Anti-Science Is Now Killing People of All Faiths
The Black Plague (also called the Black Death) that erupted in Europe in 1347 would prove to be the deadliest plague ever. It ended in...
Celebs Save Purim With Slapstick Spiel to Benefit Charity
Purim is the time when Jews like to party. But with more than 500,000 Americans dead from COVID-19, great economic loss, and social restrictions, it...
