Commentary
Al-Masri’s Assassination Exposed Iran’s Ties with Al-Qaeda
JNS.org - The assassins were professionals and they had planned carefully. On August 7, around 9 pm on a warm evening, they rode a...
Antisemites Combating Antisemitism: an Orwellian Farce
JNS.org - If George Orwell is spinning in his grave these days, he’s likely rolling so hard with laughter that it’s bringing him and the rest of us to tears. An upcoming webinar on Jew-hatred...
This Year, Thankful for a Chair and a Table
JNS.org - The COVID-19 virus that has hijacked humanity in 2020 is 10,000 times smaller than a grain of salt. It’s not even a living organism, like bacteria. It’s an inanimate object, more like a...
Many Turks Feel They Don’t Belong in Their Own Country
Turks have many good reasons not to be proud of their country’s current standing in terms of wealth, democracy, civil liberties, and justice. Turkey is a country of 83 million people, excluding four million or...
Hamas Threatens Israel: Send More Ventilators or You’ll Get Bombed
Hamas sources told the Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar that the terror group sent a message to...
How Chess Helped Natan Sharansky Outlast the Soviet Union and Foster Jewish Unity
Never Alone: Prison, Politics, and My People by Gil Troy and Natan Sharansky (Hachette, 2020). In...
The Importance of Celebrating the Ethiopian Jewish Holiday of Sigd
Today, there are more than 135,000 Ethiopian Jews living in Israel. The Ethiopian Jewish community,...
The Qatar World Cup: Dreaming of Bridging the Gulf Rift
The idea of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar mending fences in the Gulf is...
The Troubled History of Christians and Jewish Book Burning in Europe
In 1242, King Louis IX of France -- subsequently made a saint for his “good...
Al-Masri’s Assassination Exposed Iran’s Ties with Al-Qaeda
JNS.org - The assassins were professionals and they had planned carefully. On August 7, around 9 pm on a warm evening, they rode a motorcycle...
Antisemites Combating Antisemitism: an Orwellian Farce
JNS.org - If George Orwell is spinning in his grave these days, he’s likely rolling so hard with laughter that it’s bringing him and the...
This Year, Thankful for a Chair and a Table
JNS.org - The COVID-19 virus that has hijacked humanity in 2020 is 10,000 times smaller than a grain of salt. It’s not even a living...
Many Turks Feel They Don’t Belong in Their Own Country
Turks have many good reasons not to be proud of their country’s current standing in terms of wealth, democracy, civil liberties, and justice. Turkey is...
Hamas Threatens Israel: Send More Ventilators or You’ll Get Bombed
Hamas sources told the Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar that the terror group sent a message to Israel via Egypt that "things might get out of control...
How Chess Helped Natan Sharansky Outlast the Soviet Union and Foster Jewish Unity
Never Alone: Prison, Politics, and My People by Gil Troy and Natan Sharansky (Hachette, 2020). In 1977, Natan Sharansky, a leading activist in the democratic dissident...
The Importance of Celebrating the Ethiopian Jewish Holiday of Sigd
Today, there are more than 135,000 Ethiopian Jews living in Israel. The Ethiopian Jewish community, also known as Beta Israel (House of Israel), has been...
The Qatar World Cup: Dreaming of Bridging the Gulf Rift
The idea of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar mending fences in the Gulf is grounded in the longstanding illusion that soccer can drive events...
The Troubled History of Christians and Jewish Book Burning in Europe
In 1242, King Louis IX of France -- subsequently made a saint for his “good deed” -- ordered the burning of 24 cartloads of copies...
UK Media Obscures the Truth About BDS and Antisemitism
Following the announcement by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, during his visit to Israel, that the US will now regard BDS as antisemitic, the...
The Assault on Israel at the United Nations
JNS.org - When it comes to the annual sessions of the UN General Assembly, one can easily bet on the fact that of all the...
Enduring Memories of Holocaust Remembrance
Our family subscription issue of Life magazine, dated May 7, 1945, arrived on my ninth birthday. Its cover photograph, under the caption “The German People,” showed...
Obama, Netanyahu, AIPAC and the Jews
Several years ago, a friend and I were discussing yet another of then-President Barack Obama’s seemingly endless clashes with Israel, and I suddenly said, “Wait...
What Did Jordan’s Parliamentary Elections Show?
JNS.org - The parliamentary elections held in Jordan on November 10 were marked by Palestinian indifference, the awakening of the Bedouin periphery, with an emphasis...
