Commentary
The Jewish Treasures of Notre Dame
JNS.org - The world was transfixed this week by the devastating images of flames and clouds of acrid smoke spewing from the roof of...
Netanyahu and Jewish Worry About What the Neighbors Might Think
JNS.org - A few days ahead of the Knesset elections, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to extend Israeli sovereignty to parts of Judea and Samaria. This campaign promise, which was reported by many unfriendly news...
Alan Dershowitz Responds to Shmuley Boteach: You Won’t Silence Me
Shmuley Boteach is at it again. Now he is telling me what I can and can’t say to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu -- a friend of nearly half a century who values my advice....
Passover’s History in America: A Guide for the Perplexed
1. The early Pilgrims and Founding Fathers of the US were inspired by Passover's message of optimism while facing severe challenges and threats. Moses and the US leaders catapulted their peoples from the lowest ebb...
Muslims Stand With Jews at Buchenwald
While antisemitism is on the rise in the West, it’s declining in the East. In...
The False ‘Nakba’ Narrative
The term “Nakba,” originally coined to describe the magnitude of the self-inflicted Palestinian and Arab...
The Message of the Israeli Election
Two days before Israelis went to the polls last Tuesday, Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke...
New York Times, in Reversal, Declares Iran Too Dangerous for Its Own Reporter
The New York Times, which earlier this year included Iran as one of the recommended...
After Israeli Elections, Abbas Is Between a Rock and a Hard Place
JNS.org - The top ranks of the Palestinian Authority (PA) were greatly disappointed by the...
The Jewish Treasures of Notre Dame
JNS.org - The world was transfixed this week by the devastating images of flames and clouds of acrid smoke spewing from the roof of the...
Netanyahu and Jewish Worry About What the Neighbors Might Think
JNS.org - A few days ahead of the Knesset elections, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to extend Israeli sovereignty to parts of Judea and Samaria....
Alan Dershowitz Responds to Shmuley Boteach: You Won’t Silence Me
Shmuley Boteach is at it again. Now he is telling me what I can and can’t say to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu -- a...
Passover’s History in America: A Guide for the Perplexed
1. The early Pilgrims and Founding Fathers of the US were inspired by Passover's message of optimism while facing severe challenges and threats. Moses and...
Muslims Stand With Jews at Buchenwald
While antisemitism is on the rise in the West, it’s declining in the East. In Bangladesh’s capital, people urged me to convince their government to...
The False ‘Nakba’ Narrative
The term “Nakba,” originally coined to describe the magnitude of the self-inflicted Palestinian and Arab defeat in the 1948 war for Israel's survival, has now...
The Message of the Israeli Election
Two days before Israelis went to the polls last Tuesday, Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke cast his ballot in the Israeli election. He declared Prime...
New York Times, in Reversal, Declares Iran Too Dangerous for Its Own Reporter
The New York Times, which earlier this year included Iran as one of the recommended destinations in its “52 Places To Go in 2019,” now...
After Israeli Elections, Abbas Is Between a Rock and a Hard Place
JNS.org - The top ranks of the Palestinian Authority (PA) were greatly disappointed by the results of the general elections on April 9. The hope...
Was the Arab World Relieved by Israel’s Election?
JNS.org - Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, among the very few in the Arab world to respond to the election results in Israel, was quick to...
Showing Palestinians That Peace Can Be Made Without Them
Last week, a chorus of American lawmakers, presidential candidates, and many others predicted that re-electing Benjamin Netanyahu would forever doom prospects of peace in the...
The Biggest Opponents of ‘Normalization’ With Israel Happen to Be Terrorists
The theme of last Friday's Hamas-organized Gaza border riots was, "Together to face normalization." Other Palestinian terror groups are also deathly afraid of the idea that...
Parshat Acharei Mot: Think Fast — and Slow
If we put together recent discoveries in neuroscience with Midrashic tradition, we may be able to shed new light on the meaning of the central...
European Hypocrites on US Peace Plan for Israel
Donald Trump’s Mideast peace plan has yet to be published, but that hasn’t stopped 37 former Europeans politicians and officials from publishing a joint letter...
