Commentary
Israel and the US, Winning Together
JNS.org - For decades, the United Nations has served as the home turf of Arab countries who used it to batter the State of...
Why Does the Trump Administration Want to Give American Weapons to Antisemitic Governments?
JNS.org - At a time when violence against Jews is on the rise around the world, should the United States provide advanced weapons to a government that actively promotes antisemitism? That’s the question we need to...
Alleged Israeli Strike a Reminder of Hezbollah’s Syrian Terror Operations
Hezbollah remains highly active in Syria, despite the fact that the civil war there is drawing down, and it is actively trying to turn the south of the country into a launchpad for terrorist attacks...
How Liberal Jews Are Being Pushed Out on Campus
I stand with an anonymous fellow student who exposed the truth about Occidental’s Israeli Apartheid Week. Although students at my school have dismissed his perspective, I can affirm it. As a pro-Israel, pro-peace American Jew, I...
Israel Needs American Jewry, Now More Than Ever
The Jewish Diaspora in the US is becoming increasingly estranged from Israel. American Jewish youth...
The Presbyterian Church’s Stance on Israel and Hezbollah Isn’t Funny
You simply can’t make this stuff up; it’s like something out of a Mel Brooks...
Antisemites, Israel Critics Adopt a New Propaganda Ploy
The campaign to demonize Israel and the Jewish people is not new. And to give...
New York Times Birthright Israel Article Echoes ‘Zionism Is Racism’ Myth
The New York Times gave a front-page platform this week to a news article about...
Parshat Naso: Sages and Saints
Parshat Naso contains the law of the Nazirite -- the individual who undertook to observe...
Israel and the US, Winning Together
JNS.org - For decades, the United Nations has served as the home turf of Arab countries who used it to batter the State of Israel...
Why Does the Trump Administration Want to Give American Weapons to Antisemitic Governments?
JNS.org - At a time when violence against Jews is on the rise around the world, should the United States provide advanced weapons to a...
Alleged Israeli Strike a Reminder of Hezbollah’s Syrian Terror Operations
Hezbollah remains highly active in Syria, despite the fact that the civil war there is drawing down, and it is actively trying to turn the...
How Liberal Jews Are Being Pushed Out on Campus
I stand with an anonymous fellow student who exposed the truth about Occidental’s Israeli Apartheid Week. Although students at my school have dismissed his perspective,...
Israel Needs American Jewry, Now More Than Ever
The Jewish Diaspora in the US is becoming increasingly estranged from Israel. American Jewish youth are being pushed away from any affiliation with the Jewish...
The Presbyterian Church’s Stance on Israel and Hezbollah Isn’t Funny
You simply can’t make this stuff up; it’s like something out of a Mel Brooks movie. Fifteen years after the Presbyterian Church USA (PCUSA) fired...
Antisemites, Israel Critics Adopt a New Propaganda Ploy
The campaign to demonize Israel and the Jewish people is not new. And to give credit where it is due, the detractors of Israel and...
New York Times Birthright Israel Article Echoes ‘Zionism Is Racism’ Myth
The New York Times gave a front-page platform this week to a news article about a handful of anti-Israel activist who walked off a Birthright...
Parshat Naso: Sages and Saints
Parshat Naso contains the law of the Nazirite -- the individual who undertook to observe special rules of holiness and abstinence: not to drink wine...
The Horrendous Way a German Museum Remembers the Holocaust
The Nazi racial laws that led to the murder of millions of Jews in the Holocaust were enacted in the city of Nuremberg. Nuremberg is...
Why the Torah Can — and Should Be — Considered a ‘Human’ Document
Despite the passage of several centuries, the debate over the authorship of the Torah is apparently far from over, if one is to judge by...
Terrorism Forgotten: Why America Lacks Interest in Ongoing Jihadi Threat
If, one year after 9/11, an individual originally from India drove a van full of propane tanks into the front gate of a California Air...
Jewish Law in Israel Should Be Embraced by All — Not Just Fundamentalists
National Union Chairman Bezalel Smotrich is a hard-right ideologue who advocates West Bank annexation, and views Jewish particularism in its most narrow, segregationist, and exclusionary...
The Iranian Threat to Israel Is Real
Seven hundred rockets fell on Israel on May 6, initiating the greatest escalation of violence between Israel and Gaza in recent times, and leaving four...
