Commentary
Harvard Reaches a New Low
The standards of academia continue to slide, as “academic freedom” and tenure have increasingly been used to shield faculty from accountability. The result has...
Israel Needs an Anti-Propaganda Agency
In October 2015, Israel’s political-security cabinet charged the Ministry of Strategic Affairs and Public Diplomacy with the responsibility to fight the many delegitimization and boycott campaigns that have been set up against the State of...
Celebrate the High Holidays New York Times Style — by Pretending Orthodox Jews Do Not Exist
A New York Times article on how to “Celebrate the Jewish High Holy Days, Pandemic Style” mentions seven rabbis but includes not a single Orthodox one. The article appeared in the newspaper’s Sunday “At Home” section,...
Memories of the Israeli Writer Aharon Appelfeld
The beloved woman of my boyhood was my maternal grandmother Dora – or, as I lovingly knew her, “Granny.” Because she lived in Philadelphia (where I was born), and my parents and I (their only...
Shofar: A Love Song
JNS.org - As first-chair trumpet in the Orville Wright Junior High School band in Los...
How Israel Is Helping the World Fight Forest Fires
JNS.org - This year alone, Australia battled its largest-ever bushfire; California has more than 500...
Ignoring the Hamas-Hezbollah-Lebanon Connection
A month on from the explosion in Beirut, the BBC News website continues to produce...
From Tripoli to Tripoli, Turkey’s Real Aim Is Egypt
The recent deadly and destructive explosion in Beirut raised more questions than it answered, and even...
Compassion and Israel’s Current Coalition
The prime minister slowly ascended the stairs, the roar of the crowd reverberating in his...
Harvard Reaches a New Low
The standards of academia continue to slide, as “academic freedom” and tenure have increasingly been used to shield faculty from accountability. The result has been...
Israel Needs an Anti-Propaganda Agency
In October 2015, Israel’s political-security cabinet charged the Ministry of Strategic Affairs and Public Diplomacy with the responsibility to fight the many delegitimization and boycott...
Celebrate the High Holidays New York Times Style — by Pretending Orthodox Jews Do Not Exist
A New York Times article on how to “Celebrate the Jewish High Holy Days, Pandemic Style” mentions seven rabbis but includes not a single Orthodox...
Memories of the Israeli Writer Aharon Appelfeld
The beloved woman of my boyhood was my maternal grandmother Dora – or, as I lovingly knew her, “Granny.” Because she lived in Philadelphia (where...
Shofar: A Love Song
JNS.org - As first-chair trumpet in the Orville Wright Junior High School band in Los Angeles in 1966, Robbie Weinger didn’t know it, but he...
How Israel Is Helping the World Fight Forest Fires
JNS.org - This year alone, Australia battled its largest-ever bushfire; California has more than 500 blazes burning, many of them mega-fires; and forest fires have...
Ignoring the Hamas-Hezbollah-Lebanon Connection
A month on from the explosion in Beirut, the BBC News website continues to produce content relating to that story which ranges from the search...
From Tripoli to Tripoli, Turkey’s Real Aim Is Egypt
The recent deadly and destructive explosion in Beirut raised more questions than it answered, and even the “answers” that the international community arrived at obscured in...
Compassion and Israel’s Current Coalition
The prime minister slowly ascended the stairs, the roar of the crowd reverberating in his ears. Decades of insults and jeers may not have deterred...
Israel Targets Hamas Financiers as Hamas Targets Israeli Civilians
Israeli officials seized millions of shekels last week that they said were designated for the Hamas terror organization, and targeted a number of entities that...
The Miracle of Israel’s Diplomatic Breakthroughs
In the past decade, a number of pundits had talked about Israel’s growing isolation under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu -- in the words of New...
Amar’e Stoudemire: A Role Model for the Jewish People
JNS.org - Former NBA All-Star Amar’e Stoudemire’s very public conversion to Judaism, and his life as an Orthodox Jew, is extraordinary. Stoudemire began his Jewish journey...
US Aid to Lebanon Helps Hezbollah
JNS.org - The massive explosion that rocked Beirut on August 4 not only inflicted warlike damage on Lebanon’s capital city; it also exposed a subversive...
The UAE Peace and the Lie of ‘Betrayed’ Palestinians
Last month, we documented some widely-promoted framing in BBC radio and television reports concerning the agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The...
