Commentary
The Torah Teaches Us to Ask for Help
You will no doubt have read or heard about the opioid epidemic currently raging across the United States. It is a crisis of unprecedented...
Fighting Urban Guerrilla Warfare in France
France is contending with serious challenges that call for a national stocktaking. The traumatic incident of the fire at the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris on April 16, 2019 induced shock and pain as well as...
Jewish Diversity Is Cherished, But American Jews and Israelis Must Respect Each Other
Every year around the time of Israel's Independence Day, the Pew Research Center conducts a survey that reveals good news for Israel. The annual survey asks Americans what they think about the people of Israel. As...
Remembering Herman Wouk — and His Zionism
Herman Wouk, the famed novelist who first became a household name for his 1951 Pulitzer Prize winning The Caine Mutiny, died last week nearly 70 years after achieving fame. Besides his long career as a writer, he was also a lifelong Zionist. Wouk's love affair with the...
Once Again, the BBC Promotes Palestinian Propaganda About the Mideast Peace Process
Last week, the BBC News website published an article headlined “US Israel-Palestinian peace plan ‘a...
Palestinians Have No Historical Connection to Tel Aviv
Unsurprisingly last week, there were a rash of media articles focusing on the 71st anniversary...
If the US-Iran Gulf Crisis Worsens, Israel Will Be Drawn In
JNS.org - The war of words that Washington and Tehran have been waging these past...
Germans Get It, Why Don’t Pro-BDS Democrats?
On May 17, the German Parliament passed a resolution that designates the Boycott, Divestment, and...
Should Trump Rethink His Approach to Egypt and the Middle East?
Several weeks ago, Cairo discreetly notified Riyadh and Washington that it was suspending its participation...
The Torah Teaches Us to Ask for Help
You will no doubt have read or heard about the opioid epidemic currently raging across the United States. It is a crisis of unprecedented proportions. More...
Fighting Urban Guerrilla Warfare in France
France is contending with serious challenges that call for a national stocktaking. The traumatic incident of the fire at the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris on...
Jewish Diversity Is Cherished, But American Jews and Israelis Must Respect Each Other
Every year around the time of Israel's Independence Day, the Pew Research Center conducts a survey that reveals good news for Israel. The annual survey asks...
Remembering Herman Wouk — and His Zionism
Herman Wouk, the famed novelist who first became a household name for his 1951 Pulitzer Prize winning The Caine Mutiny, died last week nearly 70 years after achieving fame. Besides his long career as a writer,...
Once Again, the BBC Promotes Palestinian Propaganda About the Mideast Peace Process
Last week, the BBC News website published an article headlined “US Israel-Palestinian peace plan ‘a surrender act’ – Palestinian FM” on its "Middle East" page. The...
Palestinians Have No Historical Connection to Tel Aviv
Unsurprisingly last week, there were a rash of media articles focusing on the 71st anniversary -- not of Israel’s independence, but what Palestinians call the...
If the US-Iran Gulf Crisis Worsens, Israel Will Be Drawn In
JNS.org - The war of words that Washington and Tehran have been waging these past few weeks swings back and forth between messages intended to...
Germans Get It, Why Don’t Pro-BDS Democrats?
On May 17, the German Parliament passed a resolution that designates the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel as antisemitic, and said that...
Should Trump Rethink His Approach to Egypt and the Middle East?
Several weeks ago, Cairo discreetly notified Riyadh and Washington that it was suspending its participation in MESA (the Middle East Strategic Alliance) -- the US-Saudi...
Antisemitism in the Western World and the UK Labour Party
Antisemitism is rising in many places in the Western world. But for the purpose of efficiently studying antisemitism and the fight against it in a...
Walter Russell Mead Lays Out a New Paradigm for Israeli-Palestinian Peace
Reports in The Guardian and other British media outlets on the US-sponsored economic conference scheduled to take place next month in Bahrain as the first...
Why I Am Keeping My Subscription to The New York Times
For years, friends have been trying to convince me to stop reading The New York Times. Usually they are outraged by its unfair treatment of Israel....
Iran’s Proxy Wars Are the Real Problem
JNS.org - Sunday night’s landing of a Katyusha rocket less than half a mile from the US embassy in Baghdad was not merely the latest...
Will Anti-BDS Legislation Work in Real Life?
JNS.org - The legislation that passed in the German Bundestag last week defining the BDS movement as antisemitic has great symbolic importance. For the first time,...
