Commentary
In the Face of Rising Antisemitism, Look to Italian Holocaust Survivor and Politician Liliana Segre
In 2019 as in 1939, the Jewish future is being threatened by the moral paralysis that the Irish poet William Butler Yeats once lamented:...
Jews in Israel and the Diaspora Must Take Action to Bring Themselves Together
“Building a nation is not like building a society. Its foundations run deeper. The goal is to unite the people by working on our revival, regardless of status, parties or sects. To combine and merge...
Memo to All Jews: It’s Time to Kiss and Make Up
JNS.org - Left, right and sideways, Jews in America are facing a major dilemma: Whose side should we take? Do we take the conservative point of view and accept our duly elected Republican president as the...
Boris Johnson’s Landslide Victory Is Great News for Western Civilization
JNS.org - As a result of the Dec. 12 election in the UK, Boris Johnson and the Conservative Party he leads walked away with 56 percent of the Parliament seats versus 31 percent for the Labour...
The Likud Is the Only Major Party Remaining
JNS.org - The Likud is the only major party left in Israel, and not only...
America’s Failed Jewish Leadership Must Resign
On Tuesday, December 10, 2019, in a premeditated attack, two shooters opened fire inside a...
The Hanukkah Challenge for Young Jews
JNS.org - Hanukkah’s popularity with American Jews was largely the result of a futile if...
The Implications of the British Election for Jews and Israel
JNS.org - For Britain’s Jews, the Labour Party’s antisemitism crisis was a paramount issue. The...
An Open Letter to Secretary Pompeo on the West Bank and International Law
JNS.org - I want to heartily congratulate you on your bold statement of policy declaring...
In the Face of Rising Antisemitism, Look to Italian Holocaust Survivor and Politician Liliana Segre
In 2019 as in 1939, the Jewish future is being threatened by the moral paralysis that the Irish poet William Butler Yeats once lamented: “The...
Jews in Israel and the Diaspora Must Take Action to Bring Themselves Together
“Building a nation is not like building a society. Its foundations run deeper. The goal is to unite the people by working on our revival,...
Memo to All Jews: It’s Time to Kiss and Make Up
JNS.org - Left, right and sideways, Jews in America are facing a major dilemma: Whose side should we take? Do we take the conservative point of...
Boris Johnson’s Landslide Victory Is Great News for Western Civilization
JNS.org - As a result of the Dec. 12 election in the UK, Boris Johnson and the Conservative Party he leads walked away with 56 percent...
The Likud Is the Only Major Party Remaining
JNS.org - The Likud is the only major party left in Israel, and not only that — it is alive and kicking, in touch with...
America’s Failed Jewish Leadership Must Resign
On Tuesday, December 10, 2019, in a premeditated attack, two shooters opened fire inside a kosher deli in Jersey City, New Jersey and murdered four...
The Hanukkah Challenge for Young Jews
JNS.org - Hanukkah’s popularity with American Jews was largely the result of a futile if determined effort to compete with Christmas. While enjoying freedom, prosperity,...
The Implications of the British Election for Jews and Israel
JNS.org - For Britain’s Jews, the Labour Party’s antisemitism crisis was a paramount issue. The crisis, which began with BDS in Labour groups on university...
An Open Letter to Secretary Pompeo on the West Bank and International Law
JNS.org - I want to heartily congratulate you on your bold statement of policy declaring that “the Trump administration is reversing the Obama administration’s approach...
Putting Impeachment on Trial
I had not planned to write about the impeachment. Frankly, along with millions of other people living in the United States, and probably the rest...
Times Columnist Fantasizes Falsely About ‘Very Large Segment’ of Anti-Israel US Jews
It was easily missed amid the blizzard of New York Times coverage of President Trump’s executive order on antisemitism, but Max Fisher’s Interpreter column on...
MESA Again Demonstrates Its Contempt for Israel
JNS.org - No sooner had President Donald Trump signed an executive order applying the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA)'s working definition of antisemitism to college...
Historical Revisionism at Cornell University
JNS.org - Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and the Cornell chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) hosted a film screening on Sept. 22...
The Executive Order That Defines and Combats Antisemitism Without Stifling Speech
JNS.org - Is it antisemitism to support the destruction of the one and only Jewish nation-state -- home to approximately half of the Jews in...
