Commentary
Leo Frank’s Lynching, Tom Watson’s Statue, and White Supremacy in America
The current controversy about replacing the statues of Confederate generals and other racist and problematic figures is hardly new. In 2013, Georgia removed the...
Israelis and Palestinians Join Forces to Battle Coronavirus
JNS.org - The Middle East is often viewed in a negative context. Wars, clashes of cultures, corruption, poverty, and international interventions typically capture the headlines. But the coronavirus pandemic, where essential cooperation is occurring despite...
Jewish College Students Stand Up to Antisemitism on Campus
We are living amidst a global awakening of reevaluating systemic racism, and the ways in which minorities are persecuted and mistreated. During this wave of change, a group of Jewish college students from across the country...
Putin Has Outplayed Trump — and the US and Israel Have Suffered
In 2009, I wrote that Russians are the world's best chess players, and that Vladimir Putin pursues foreign policy like a chess whiz who can see several moves ahead of his rivals. He put Barack...
With Beinart Podcast, New York Times Pushes Zionism-Is-Racism Lie
The New York Times is doubling down on Peter Beinart’s plan to replace the Jewish...
Parshat Va’etchanan: The Infinite Game
The popular author and TED lecturer Simon Sinek recently published a book entitled The Infinite...
Camp David 20 Years Later: The Oslo Delusion
JNS.org - It’s one anniversary that no one is celebrating. Twenty years ago this month,...
Will Israel Find Itself Facing Down Iran, Turkey, and the US in Libya?
Several reports (most recently in Makor Rishon) have been published on Libyan National Army (LNA) outreach...
On Hezbollah, It’s Time to Call Nasrallah’s Bluff
JNS.org - From a position of unprecedented weakness and distress, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah is...
Leo Frank’s Lynching, Tom Watson’s Statue, and White Supremacy in America
The current controversy about replacing the statues of Confederate generals and other racist and problematic figures is hardly new. In 2013, Georgia removed the 12-foot...
Israelis and Palestinians Join Forces to Battle Coronavirus
JNS.org - The Middle East is often viewed in a negative context. Wars, clashes of cultures, corruption, poverty, and international interventions typically capture the headlines....
Jewish College Students Stand Up to Antisemitism on Campus
We are living amidst a global awakening of reevaluating systemic racism, and the ways in which minorities are persecuted and mistreated. During this wave of change,...
Putin Has Outplayed Trump — and the US and Israel Have Suffered
In 2009, I wrote that Russians are the world's best chess players, and that Vladimir Putin pursues foreign policy like a chess whiz who can...
With Beinart Podcast, New York Times Pushes Zionism-Is-Racism Lie
The New York Times is doubling down on Peter Beinart’s plan to replace the Jewish state of Israel with a binational “Israel-Palestine.” A Times op-ed by...
Parshat Va’etchanan: The Infinite Game
The popular author and TED lecturer Simon Sinek recently published a book entitled The Infinite Game. Based on the distinction first articulated by James P....
Camp David 20 Years Later: The Oslo Delusion
JNS.org - It’s one anniversary that no one is celebrating. Twenty years ago this month, President Bill Clinton welcomed Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and...
Will Israel Find Itself Facing Down Iran, Turkey, and the US in Libya?
Several reports (most recently in Makor Rishon) have been published on Libyan National Army (LNA) outreach toward Israel. The LNA makes the point that Libyans and...
On Hezbollah, It’s Time to Call Nasrallah’s Bluff
JNS.org - From a position of unprecedented weakness and distress, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah is back to his old gambling habits. Similar to the summer...
Some ‘Unorthodox’ Advice for Netflix’s Esty
In recent years, more and more stories portraying the journey of people who have left ultra-Orthodox communities are being told. The people leaving these communities often...
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s Slam Dunk Against Antisemitism
JNS.org - Who ranks with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.? In our view, nobody. But former NBA star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is an African-American -- and...
The Black and Jewish Communities Must Unite; But Black Leaders Must Fight Antisemitism
“So you’re that ni**er lover that wants to tell us what to do with all our ni**ers in Mississippi?” Those were the last words that a...
Taking Over a Pulpit Mid-Pandemic
JNS.org - Throughout my tenure as a student in Yeshiva University’s Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, also known as REITS, I would dream about the...
Can Israel and Hezbollah Stave Off a Dangerous Escalation — or Even War?
JNS.org - Israel and Hezbollah are again embroiled in a perilous dynamic of escalation. How things unfold, as always, depends on the degree of self-restraint and...
