Commentary
Is It Downhill From Here for ‘Rolling Stone’?
In 2017, I wrote about Glamour magazine giving an award to the organizers of the Women’s March, including anti-Israel activist and terror-supporter Linda Sarsour....
Hezbollah May Be Down, but It’s Not Out
JNS.org - With all the astonishment at the massive Hezbollah terror tunnel project revealed this week by the IDF, the tunnels themselves were just a tool that the organization intended to use to implement its...
Is This the Start of the Post-Netanyahu Era?
JNS.org - In an unprecedented move, the Knesset that was elected in April voted to dissolve itself this week. That means Israelis will have yet another election in September. But what happened in Israel wasn’t...
Jerusalem Is the Beating Heart of Jewish History
If you do a Google search for any Jewish topic, you will almost certainly be directed to the site myjewishlearning.com. This website is one of the several media outlets that form 70 Faces Media, “the largest nonprofit, nondenominational...
New York Times Faces a Brisket Brouhaha
The cover story in this week’s New York Times food section asserts, “Brisket remains oddly...
Young Arabs Want Less Religion in the Middle East
JNS.org - Results of a recent annual survey of Arab youth suggest that Arab autocracies have...
The Greatest Jewish Generation
JNS.org - The Greatest Generation, that milestone generation which saved the world in World War...
Despite BDS, Israeli Tourism Continues to Thrive
The Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement is designed to delegitimize the State of Israel....
Zionism Is Racism: The Dead Horse That Never Dies
Many thought that we had finally defeated the idea that Zionism is racism in 1991,...
Is It Downhill From Here for ‘Rolling Stone’?
In 2017, I wrote about Glamour magazine giving an award to the organizers of the Women’s March, including anti-Israel activist and terror-supporter Linda Sarsour. A...
Hezbollah May Be Down, but It’s Not Out
JNS.org - With all the astonishment at the massive Hezbollah terror tunnel project revealed this week by the IDF, the tunnels themselves were just a...
Is This the Start of the Post-Netanyahu Era?
JNS.org - In an unprecedented move, the Knesset that was elected in April voted to dissolve itself this week. That means Israelis will have yet...
Jerusalem Is the Beating Heart of Jewish History
If you do a Google search for any Jewish topic, you will almost certainly be directed to the site myjewishlearning.com. This website is one of the several...
New York Times Faces a Brisket Brouhaha
The cover story in this week’s New York Times food section asserts, “Brisket remains oddly off limits for one large segment of the population: home...
Young Arabs Want Less Religion in the Middle East
JNS.org - Results of a recent annual survey of Arab youth suggest that Arab autocracies have yet to deliver expected public services and goods, or explain...
The Greatest Jewish Generation
JNS.org - The Greatest Generation, that milestone generation which saved the world in World War II, is rapidly dwindling right before our eyes. The death...
Despite BDS, Israeli Tourism Continues to Thrive
The Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement is designed to delegitimize the State of Israel. Its object is to target the country’s very identity and...
Zionism Is Racism: The Dead Horse That Never Dies
Many thought that we had finally defeated the idea that Zionism is racism in 1991, when the UN revoked its infamous anti-Zionist resolution. But that...
A Bar Mitzvah as a Vote of Confidence
Few matters are as misunderstood as Judaism’s “obsession with the law.” In the life of a religious Jew, not a moment goes by that he...
Jews Are Indigenous to the Land of Israel
In a Tablet Magazine article, Ryan Bellerose asked, “Are Jews Indigenous to the Land of Israel?” Bellerose’s answer is yes. He refers to Jews as...
Rethinking Holocaust Restitution: A Case for Jewish Dignity
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki recently asserted that his government would never agree to pay restitution for properties stolen from Jews during the Holocaust. This...
The Problem in Germany Is About More Than a ‘Kipah’
JNS.org - Who could really be surprised by the story that grabbed the attention of the Jewish world this past weekend? When Felix Klein, Germany’s...
The Mistake of Germany’s Bare-Headed Brouhaha
JNS.org - The outcry over remarks made on Saturday by the German government’s first-ever antisemitism commissioner, Felix Klein, is peculiar. If Klein were not truthful...
