Commentary
Turkey Plants Its Flag in Christchurch
While showing footage of the March 15 shooting rampage in Christchurch, New Zealand at a rally in advance of March 31 local elections, Turkish...
BDS Continues on Campus, While Some Democrats Take on Omar and Tlaib
BDS activity on college campuses increased sharply in March. The most consequential move was the decision by a mixed faculty-student body at Pitzer College to end its semester abroad program with the University of Haifa....
Israel’s Tourism Triumph
JNS.org - The virulently anti-Israel campaign known as the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement is roiling through college campuses, overflowing into city councils, encroaching into corporate boardrooms, and now chomping at the essence of...
‘Institutionally Antisemitic’: The British Labour Party’s Cautionary Tale
JNS.org - There is, in Britain, a long tradition of holding public inquiries to establish the facts and learn the appropriate lessons from a host of social and political challenges. The range of inquiry subjects...
New York Times’ David Brooks Catches Flak for Sabbath Column
New York Times columnist David Brooks is getting some pushback after a column about the...
Another Street Theater Performance of Fake ‘Israeli Atrocities’ That Israel Haters Are Pretending Is Real
Remember this picture? It still pops up from time to time: In fact, this picture was...
The Yabloner Rebbe
Usually I generate my own material. This time, I am taking it from Pini Dunner,...
Today’s Antisemitism Is the Fight Against Israel
JNS.org - Jean-Paul Sartre once wrote that when it comes to antisemitism, there’s a strange...
New York Times Corrections Column Tells a Sad Story on Israel Coverage
For a clear view of just how much trouble The New York Times has covering...
Turkey Plants Its Flag in Christchurch
While showing footage of the March 15 shooting rampage in Christchurch, New Zealand at a rally in advance of March 31 local elections, Turkish president...
BDS Continues on Campus, While Some Democrats Take on Omar and Tlaib
BDS activity on college campuses increased sharply in March. The most consequential move was the decision by a mixed faculty-student body at Pitzer College to...
Israel’s Tourism Triumph
JNS.org - The virulently anti-Israel campaign known as the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement is roiling through college campuses, overflowing into city councils, encroaching...
‘Institutionally Antisemitic’: The British Labour Party’s Cautionary Tale
JNS.org - There is, in Britain, a long tradition of holding public inquiries to establish the facts and learn the appropriate lessons from a host...
New York Times’ David Brooks Catches Flak for Sabbath Column
New York Times columnist David Brooks is getting some pushback after a column about the Sabbath in which he writes, “On this day the Orthodox...
Another Street Theater Performance of Fake ‘Israeli Atrocities’ That Israel Haters Are Pretending Is Real
Remember this picture? It still pops up from time to time: In fact, this picture was cropped from a photo of street theater meant to vilify...
The Yabloner Rebbe
Usually I generate my own material. This time, I am taking it from Pini Dunner, another British rabbi now living in the US. His hobby...
Today’s Antisemitism Is the Fight Against Israel
JNS.org - Jean-Paul Sartre once wrote that when it comes to antisemitism, there’s a strange kind of associated optimism: Once the evil embodied by the...
New York Times Corrections Column Tells a Sad Story on Israel Coverage
For a clear view of just how much trouble The New York Times has covering Israel and Jewish issues, keep an eye on the corrections...
Iran Makes Dangerous Inroads in Iraq
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s unprecedented recent visit to Iraq on March 11 to 13, which received wide media coverage, was prompted by both domestic and...
It’s Time to Target the Terrorists
JNS.org - Hamas terrorists from Gaza launched a long-range missile on March 25 that indiscriminately targeted a civilian community in the heart of Israel’s most...
Admiring Judaism Through the Eyes of a Christian
Devout, practicing Christian friends have told me over the years that they respect much about the Jewish faith. I decided recently to ask them what,...
The Nexus Between Anti-Judaism and Antisemitism
In Civilization and Its Discontents (1930), Freud evoked the historic architecture of Rome in order to explain the structure of the human mind. What if...
New Islamist Group in Chicago Dominated by Radical Voices
The IL Muslim Civic Coalition, which formed last October, claims to be "a partnership of 250+ Activists, Influencers and Organizations. We empower the voices of...
