Commentary
How American Jews Championed Righteous Social Change
The years before America’s entry into World War I were an age of progressive reform. In 1912, socialist presidential candidate Eugene Debs garnered 6%...
Netanyahu Responded to COVID Much Better Than Trump, but Still Faces Challenges
JNS.org - Only a few months ago, the coronavirus pandemic seemed to illustrate the vast differences in management skills between President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The former was slow to react to...
Remembering Ze’ev Jabotinsky 80 Years After His Death
Ze’ev Jabotinsky died on August 4, 1940 -- yet so much of what this great Zionist visionary said is still relevant today. Picture Jabotinsky urging the Jews in Europe to leave in the days before the...
Celebrity Antisemites Can’t Be Absolved Through Private Apologies
Recently, Mort Klein of the ZOA engaged Ice Cube in a two-hour conversation that was treated as an act of absolution for the antisemitic rapper. Mort was convinced, according to JTA, that “the rapper was...
The Fading Memory of Soleimani Exposes Iran’s Sclerotic Regime
The extent to which Qassem Soleimani’s spectacular demise at the hands of the Americans affected...
Hamas Prioritizing Naval Attack Force Build-Up
The naval division of Hamas' military wing is not often in the international headlines, despite...
What Does Judaism Have to Offer Seth Rogen?
Seth Rogen doesn’t owe you anything. Rogen is Jewish, but he never claimed to be...
A Pandemic Can’t Stop Israel’s Political Crisis
Only a coronavirus-sized global pandemic could break Israel's political paralysis -- but not for long. Just...
The Lonely, Angry Antisemite
JNS.org - At high school, he made no friends and didn’t belong to any clubs....
How American Jews Championed Righteous Social Change
The years before America’s entry into World War I were an age of progressive reform. In 1912, socialist presidential candidate Eugene Debs garnered 6% of...
Netanyahu Responded to COVID Much Better Than Trump, but Still Faces Challenges
JNS.org - Only a few months ago, the coronavirus pandemic seemed to illustrate the vast differences in management skills between President Donald Trump and Israeli...
Remembering Ze’ev Jabotinsky 80 Years After His Death
Ze’ev Jabotinsky died on August 4, 1940 -- yet so much of what this great Zionist visionary said is still relevant today. Picture Jabotinsky urging the...
Celebrity Antisemites Can’t Be Absolved Through Private Apologies
Recently, Mort Klein of the ZOA engaged Ice Cube in a two-hour conversation that was treated as an act of absolution for the antisemitic rapper....
The Fading Memory of Soleimani Exposes Iran’s Sclerotic Regime
The extent to which Qassem Soleimani’s spectacular demise at the hands of the Americans affected Iran’s ability to harm the US and its allies is...
Hamas Prioritizing Naval Attack Force Build-Up
The naval division of Hamas' military wing is not often in the international headlines, despite being busy year-round with planning terrorist raids on Israel's coastline,...
What Does Judaism Have to Offer Seth Rogen?
Seth Rogen doesn’t owe you anything. Rogen is Jewish, but he never claimed to be a spokesman for the Jewish people. He is an actor...
A Pandemic Can’t Stop Israel’s Political Crisis
Only a coronavirus-sized global pandemic could break Israel's political paralysis -- but not for long. Just a few months after the formation of the government, political...
The Lonely, Angry Antisemite
JNS.org - At high school, he made no friends and didn’t belong to any clubs. He liked girls, but having a girlfriend was beyond his...
The Ben-Gurion Legacy: Independent National Security Policy
The legacy of Israel’s first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, contradicts conventional wisdom. It rejects the assumption that a White House “green light” is a prerequisite...
Annexation Proposal Leads to More Support for BDS
In contrast to June, when BDS was focused on alleged Israeli culpability for police violence in the US, in July anger was generated over reports...
As Turkey Is Flooded With State-Sponsored Fake News, Confusion Abounds on America
In 2018, the Turkish police began to raid onion wholesalers on suspicion that they were artificially raising onion prices and trying to “illegally overthrow” the...
The Quiet Sages of Jerusalem
The Jerusalem I first came to in 1958 was a very different and much smaller town than the Jerusalem of today. There was no Old...
