Commentary
Life-Cycle Events for a Rabbi During COVID-19
JNS.org - There have been countless times I've officiated at funeral and burial services since August 1984, when I came to Ohr Kodesh Congregation...
A Lesson from the Torah: Vilification and Evil Speech Are Destroying the World
At the risk of disclosing a spoiler, I would like to begin this week’s Covenant & Conversation by discussing the 2019 film A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood. Tom Hanks plays the beloved American children’s...
China’s Hallowed Status at the United Nations Human Rights Council
JNS.org - If you are looking for an international institution that brazenly fawns over the world’s most despotic regimes regardless of how low they might sink on the moral scale, then the UN Human Rights...
The New Quds Force Commander’s Visit to Iraq Bodes Ill for American and World Peace
In early April, Quds Force commander Esmail Qaani, who had succeeded Qassem Soleimani three months earlier, visited Iraq to unify the Shiite factions in opposition to the formation of a government by Adnan Zurfi, perceived...
What Will Coronavirus Mean for Russia and the Oil Market?
The coronavirus pandemic began to affect Russia later than the western European states and the...
The Fauda Effect: Israeli Active Defense on the Screen
The Israeli concept of “active defense” has long been used by the film industry as...
UN Treaty Body Promotes BDS at Urging of Norwegian NGO
During the 67th session of the UN Committee on Economic Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR),...
Imperfect Friends: Quakers and Jews
There has been a spate of articles about the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) serving...
Bias Gives Way to False Claims on Israel, Gaza, and Coronavirus
On April 15, 2020, The Washington Post published an op-ed entitled “Gaza is an open-air prison. As covid-19...
Life-Cycle Events for a Rabbi During COVID-19
JNS.org - There have been countless times I've officiated at funeral and burial services since August 1984, when I came to Ohr Kodesh Congregation in...
A Lesson from the Torah: Vilification and Evil Speech Are Destroying the World
At the risk of disclosing a spoiler, I would like to begin this week’s Covenant & Conversation by discussing the 2019 film A Beautiful Day...
China’s Hallowed Status at the United Nations Human Rights Council
JNS.org - If you are looking for an international institution that brazenly fawns over the world’s most despotic regimes regardless of how low they might...
The New Quds Force Commander’s Visit to Iraq Bodes Ill for American and World Peace
In early April, Quds Force commander Esmail Qaani, who had succeeded Qassem Soleimani three months earlier, visited Iraq to unify the Shiite factions in opposition...
What Will Coronavirus Mean for Russia and the Oil Market?
The coronavirus pandemic began to affect Russia later than the western European states and the US, but has the potential to completely unravel the country’s...
The Fauda Effect: Israeli Active Defense on the Screen
The Israeli concept of “active defense” has long been used by the film industry as a tool with which to showcase the Israeli perspective on...
UN Treaty Body Promotes BDS at Urging of Norwegian NGO
During the 67th session of the UN Committee on Economic Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR), in which the committee was supposed to review Norway’s compliance...
Imperfect Friends: Quakers and Jews
There has been a spate of articles about the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) serving as the preeminent Quaker apologist group for Palestinian rejection of Israel’s...
Bias Gives Way to False Claims on Israel, Gaza, and Coronavirus
On April 15, 2020, The Washington Post published an op-ed entitled “Gaza is an open-air prison. As covid-19 spreads, it’s time to life the siege.” The author, Tarek...
Turkey’s Alliance with Iran — and Sunni and Shiite Islamists
At the time of the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in 2018, Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan unleashed an...
Religion and COVID-19
There has been a great deal of negative publicity that religious communities in Israel and the United States were disregarding state and medical laws about...
New York Times Seder-Shames Ivanka Trump
The New York Times wants everyone to know that Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner had a Passover seder in New Jersey, not Washington, DC —...
IfNotNow Spreads More Lies About Israel
The trope that Jews (or in this convenient case, the Jewish state) are the cause of another people’s suffering is not a new one. In...
Why Iran Has Trump — and America’s — Number
Despite the deadly spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) throughout Iran, which may have affected as many as 500,000 people according to internal reports, Iran’s aggression and...
