Commentary
What Apartheid?
JNS.org - An Israeli mother recently posted on her Facebook page a photo of Muslim-Israeli and Jewish-Israeli healthcare professionals dancing together at a staff...
For Israel, a Country With No History of Pandemics, Improvisation Is Key
Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina opens with the well-known sentence, “All happy families are alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Applying this logic to emergency situations, one can say, “All routine situations are...
Putin’s Imperialism Comes to Jerusalem
In January 2020, Benjamin Netanyahu and Vladimir Putin struck a deal that rescued Israeli backpacker Naama Issachar from a Russian prison and brought her safely home, in exchange for Russian sovereignty over the Alexander Courtyard...
China, Guilty as Israel Is Charged
It appears that China is the pariah state that people have long imagined Israel to be. When one examines the defamatory charges leveled at Israel and Israelis on a daily basis, including but not limited...
Benjamin Franklin’s Unintended Influence on the Jewish Community
The 1880s marked the beginnings of the mass migration to the US of Jewish immigrants...
New York Times Blames Hasidim, Purim for Coronavirus Outbreak
Did the Hasidic Jewish community in New York bring coronavirus upon itself by refusing to...
How to Bridge the Diaspora-Israel Gap
JNS.org - The Israel-Diaspora relationship has always been complex and fraught with landmines, and during...
America Is Under Attack by the Spread of Disinformation and Other Means
We recently suggested that President Trump organize two task forces in order to address the...
Turkey’s Dangerous Intervention in the Libyan and Syrian Civil Wars
Turkey under Recep Tayyip Erdogan is constantly looking for opportunities to enhance its status as...
What Apartheid?
JNS.org - An Israeli mother recently posted on her Facebook page a photo of Muslim-Israeli and Jewish-Israeli healthcare professionals dancing together at a staff function...
For Israel, a Country With No History of Pandemics, Improvisation Is Key
Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina opens with the well-known sentence, “All happy families are alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Applying this logic...
Putin’s Imperialism Comes to Jerusalem
In January 2020, Benjamin Netanyahu and Vladimir Putin struck a deal that rescued Israeli backpacker Naama Issachar from a Russian prison and brought her safely...
China, Guilty as Israel Is Charged
It appears that China is the pariah state that people have long imagined Israel to be. When one examines the defamatory charges leveled at Israel...
Benjamin Franklin’s Unintended Influence on the Jewish Community
The 1880s marked the beginnings of the mass migration to the US of Jewish immigrants from Imperial Russia’s Pale of Settlement, whom Germans and German...
New York Times Blames Hasidim, Purim for Coronavirus Outbreak
Did the Hasidic Jewish community in New York bring coronavirus upon itself by refusing to cancel in-person Purim megillah readings? That’s the narrative being pushed by...
How to Bridge the Diaspora-Israel Gap
JNS.org - The Israel-Diaspora relationship has always been complex and fraught with landmines, and during crises has experienced many extremes, from complete solidarity to creeping...
America Is Under Attack by the Spread of Disinformation and Other Means
We recently suggested that President Trump organize two task forces in order to address the most serious domestic and foreign threats facing America: Red Task Force:...
Turkey’s Dangerous Intervention in the Libyan and Syrian Civil Wars
Turkey under Recep Tayyip Erdogan is constantly looking for opportunities to enhance its status as a regional superpower and promote its Islamist ideology in the...
Pandemic Sets the Stage for a Western-Asian Ideological Contest
As the scale of the coronavirus pandemic grew more and more apparent, apocalyptic scenarios quickly multiplied. Many expected the world to undergo structural changes primarily...
ICC Prosecutor Recommends Israel Be Investigated for War Crimes — Why the US Should Care
On April 30, amid a global pandemic, the Chief Prosecutor of the Hague-based International Criminal Court (ICC), Fatou Bensouda, reaffirmed her recommendation that Israel be...
Why Israel Will Beat COVID-19
Sitting in the tiny, closet-like office, we could barely move the chairs around to get the four of us into the cramped space. There was...
Muslim LGBT ‘Allies’ Silent as Muslim Attacks on Gays Increase
There's a new slur trending in Turkey these days aimed at the LGBTQ population: "#YallahHollandaya" or "Go to Holland." The expression reflects the Netherlands' longstanding...
Remembering Herman Wouk, the Zionist, on His First ‘Yahrzeit’
JNS.org - Herman Wouk, the famed novelist who first became a household name for his 1951 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Caine Mutiny, died one year...
