Commentary
What’s Changed Since the ‘Black Death’?
JNS.org - The numbers are rolling in, and they make for grim reading. In four European countries with significant Jewish communities -- France, Germany,...
Jasbir Puar Is the Exemplar of the Academy’s Moral Failure
JNS.org - Rutgers professor Jasbir Puar has been invited to speak at Scripps College in California by its chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine and several of the college’s academic departments. Puar is one of...
Jewish Lessons From the Coronavirus
To date, more than 100,000 people have been affected by the coronavirus globally, including 3,000 deaths. As we pray that this pandemic ends speedily, here are five pressing lessons that we may learn from this...
Protesters Push Arab Militaries Off Their Pedestal
Long gone are the days when protesters in Cairo’s Tahrir Square chanted “the military and the people are one.” In 2011, the protesters managed to break the barriers of fear created by autocratic rulers --...
Dreyfus’ Long Shadow for American Jews
The post-World War I period -- including 1919’s Red Scare, passage of racist immigration restriction...
Artificial Intelligence: The Forbidden Fruit of the 21st Century
Long before the invention of self-driving cars and robotics, Jews conceived the idea of man-made...
During Election Season, the Jewish Community Must Prioritize Addressing Campus Antisemitism
The Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel “is essentially a domestic form of...
Iran’s Shiite Crescent and the Coronavirus
Iran’s Shiite crescent, which until recently reflected its imperial reach into the Arab world, has...
1620-2020: the 400th Anniversary of the US-Israel Alliance
The Early Pilgrims The roots of the unique ties between the United States and Israel precede...
What’s Changed Since the ‘Black Death’?
JNS.org - The numbers are rolling in, and they make for grim reading. In four European countries with significant Jewish communities -- France, Germany, the...
Jasbir Puar Is the Exemplar of the Academy’s Moral Failure
JNS.org - Rutgers professor Jasbir Puar has been invited to speak at Scripps College in California by its chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine...
Jewish Lessons From the Coronavirus
To date, more than 100,000 people have been affected by the coronavirus globally, including 3,000 deaths. As we pray that this pandemic ends speedily, here...
Protesters Push Arab Militaries Off Their Pedestal
Long gone are the days when protesters in Cairo’s Tahrir Square chanted “the military and the people are one.” In 2011, the protesters managed to...
Dreyfus’ Long Shadow for American Jews
The post-World War I period -- including 1919’s Red Scare, passage of racist immigration restriction acts, mass KKK marches on the nation’s capital, and Henry...
Artificial Intelligence: The Forbidden Fruit of the 21st Century
Long before the invention of self-driving cars and robotics, Jews conceived the idea of man-made life. Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming so advanced now that it...
During Election Season, the Jewish Community Must Prioritize Addressing Campus Antisemitism
The Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel “is essentially a domestic form of antisemitism that attacks local Jews through the demonizing of the...
Iran’s Shiite Crescent and the Coronavirus
Iran’s Shiite crescent, which until recently reflected its imperial reach into the Arab world, has now become pathological with the spread of Covid-19 (the official...
1620-2020: the 400th Anniversary of the US-Israel Alliance
The Early Pilgrims The roots of the unique ties between the United States and Israel precede the 1776 US Declaration of Independence and the 1948 founding...
An Object Lesson in Misplaced American Jewish Priorities
JNS.org - When the National Museum of American Jewish History (NMAJH) opened its doors in November 2010, the spanking new $150 million building on Philadelphia’s...
Re-Killing the Dead: Another Jewish Tragedy in Yemen
The Jewish (and English) cemetery in the Yemenite city of Aden is being systematically destroyed. This action is in keeping with the long tradition of...
Telling the Truth About Palestinian Child Soldiers
There are many things about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that the media focuses on, and almost all are bad about Israel. However, a few things that...
Purim in 2020
Purim. Poor Him. But “poor” who? Ahasuerus the drunken incompetent sop of a passive king? Vashti the deposed queen? Esther, the #MeToo nice Jewish girl?...
Purim, and a Shift in the Haredi World
Over the past few weeks, I have noted a major shift in the Jewish world, a shift that relates to the Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) community in...
