Commentary
The Palestinians Have Been Lying For Years. Can They Still Get Away With It?
The Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels unfortunately proved to the world that it is possible to lie in several contradictory directions at once: for...
New York Times Tilts Toward One-State Solution on Israel-Palestine
The New York Times offered readers a signal of what the post-James Bennet, post-Bari Weiss opinion and editorial pages would look like with an op-ed and podcast by Peter Beinart proposing the elimination of the...
What’s the Point of Fasting?
Here are some of my thoughts on the significance of Yom Kippur: Rosh Hashanah inaugurates the Ten Days of Repentance, the Aseret Yemei Teshuvah. But repentance is only a process that leads up to Atonement....
Beware of Israel’s Critics
At his Times of Israel blog on September 24, University of Maryland Distinguished Professor Jeffrey Herf cites “the great American weakening, which has been the hallmark of the Trump era.” He eviscerates “Trumpism,” defined as “isolationist...
UK Labour Leader Keir Starmer Is Drawing a Line Under the Corbyn Years
JNS.org - That old cliché about the media preferring a news cycle dominated by conflict...
What’s Actually in the Abraham Accords?
JNS.org - Considerable discussion has been generated in the international and local media, as well...
BBC Arabic Amplifies a False and Well-Worn Political Narrative
On September 21, the BBC One program Panorama aired an episode titled "Banking Secrets of...
Guide for the Perplexed — Yom Kippur
1. Yom Kippur is observed on the 10th day of the Jewish month of Tishrei...
Iranian ‘Restraint’ and ‘Small’ Cyber Attacks
“Cyber winter is coming,” warned Yigal Unna, Israel’s national cyber chief, but The New York Times can’t...
The Palestinians Have Been Lying For Years. Can They Still Get Away With It?
The Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels unfortunately proved to the world that it is possible to lie in several contradictory directions at once: for example,...
New York Times Tilts Toward One-State Solution on Israel-Palestine
The New York Times offered readers a signal of what the post-James Bennet, post-Bari Weiss opinion and editorial pages would look like with an op-ed...
What’s the Point of Fasting?
Here are some of my thoughts on the significance of Yom Kippur: Rosh Hashanah inaugurates the Ten Days of Repentance, the Aseret Yemei Teshuvah. But...
Beware of Israel’s Critics
At his Times of Israel blog on September 24, University of Maryland Distinguished Professor Jeffrey Herf cites “the great American weakening, which has been the hallmark...
UK Labour Leader Keir Starmer Is Drawing a Line Under the Corbyn Years
JNS.org - That old cliché about the media preferring a news cycle dominated by conflict rather than reconciliation has some merit when you look at...
What’s Actually in the Abraham Accords?
JNS.org - Considerable discussion has been generated in the international and local media, as well as in political circles, since the September 15 signing of...
BBC Arabic Amplifies a False and Well-Worn Political Narrative
On September 21, the BBC One program Panorama aired an episode titled "Banking Secrets of the Rich and Powerful": It’s the leak that reveals the secrets...
Guide for the Perplexed — Yom Kippur
1. Yom Kippur is observed on the 10th day of the Jewish month of Tishrei (September 28, 2020), whose astrological sign is Libra, which symbolizes...
Iranian ‘Restraint’ and ‘Small’ Cyber Attacks
“Cyber winter is coming,” warned Yigal Unna, Israel’s national cyber chief, but The New York Times can’t see past the fall. In an article this week arguing that...
The Facts — and Myths — of the Middle East and Palestinian Conflict
“The more you know about the past,” Theodore Roosevelt once observed, “the better prepared you are for the future.” Regrettably, The Washington Post is leaving readers...
Ruth Bader Ginsburg on ‘Being Jewish’
In 2003, when my wife, Ruth, and I were editing the book I Am Jewish: Personal Reflections Inspired by the Last Words of Daniel Pearl...
Reflections on Yom Kippur — Connecting to Our Inner Jew
Exactly a year ago, I traveled to Israel for a meeting with more than 30 Jewish leaders and activists, at the invitation of Israel’s president,...
The Abraham Accords: The Reconciliation of Arabs and Jews
Hope -- long deferred -- materialized on the South Lawn of the White House on September 15, when leaders from the UAE, Bahrain, and Israel...
Bonds Building Bonds — Honoring Generations of Sound Investment
JNS.org - If anyone in your family celebrated a bar or bat mitzvah, a wedding, or the birth of a baby after September 3, 1950,...
