Commentary
Politicizing the Massacre of Eleven Pittsburgh Jews Must Stop
This past Saturday, the Jewish day of rest, a middle-aged man burst into a baby-naming service at a Pittsburgh synagogue. What followed was the...
Antisemitism: An Abhorrent Aberration in the USA
The October 27, 2018 massacre at the Tree of Life Synagogue, in Pittsburgh, PA, was an egregious reminder that since the early 17th century, antisemitism has been a systematic feature of -- yet an abhorrent...
The Futile Search for Meaning in Antisemitic Crimes
When something terrible happens, we demand explanations. Awful and irrational events spawn conspiracy theories because it’s part of the human condition to need to make sense of the world, even when the world makes no...
Robert Faurisson: The Liar and His Legacy
JNS.org - “He will lie, sir, with such volubility, that you would think truth were a fool,” opines one character about another in William Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well. It is an observation that...
Jordanian Law Permits the Murder of Israelis
Jordanian soldier Ahmad Mussa Dakasma, the murderer of seven Israeli schoolgirls in Naharayim on March...
The Saudi Butchery in Yemen — and the World’s Apathy
The cold-blooded killing of Jamal Khashoggi, however gruesome, pales in comparison to the brutality and...
Abraham: A Man for All Seasons
Abraham is revered by the major monotheistic religions. In Judaism, what he went through is...
We Need to Talk About the Importance of Non-Orthodox Movements
JNS.org - The Jewish Federations of North America held their annual General Assembly last week...
New York Times Hypes Speculative Story of Mayor de Blasio and the Yeshivas
In the ongoing train wreck that is the New York Times coverage of Orthodox Jewish...
Politicizing the Massacre of Eleven Pittsburgh Jews Must Stop
This past Saturday, the Jewish day of rest, a middle-aged man burst into a baby-naming service at a Pittsburgh synagogue. What followed was the deadliest...
Antisemitism: An Abhorrent Aberration in the USA
The October 27, 2018 massacre at the Tree of Life Synagogue, in Pittsburgh, PA, was an egregious reminder that since the early 17th century, antisemitism...
The Futile Search for Meaning in Antisemitic Crimes
When something terrible happens, we demand explanations. Awful and irrational events spawn conspiracy theories because it’s part of the human condition to need to make...
Robert Faurisson: The Liar and His Legacy
JNS.org - “He will lie, sir, with such volubility, that you would think truth were a fool,” opines one character about another in William Shakespeare’s...
Jordanian Law Permits the Murder of Israelis
Jordanian soldier Ahmad Mussa Dakasma, the murderer of seven Israeli schoolgirls in Naharayim on March 13, 1997, was released from prison in March 2017 after...
The Saudi Butchery in Yemen — and the World’s Apathy
The cold-blooded killing of Jamal Khashoggi, however gruesome, pales in comparison to the brutality and gross human rights violations that Saudi Arabia is committing in...
Abraham: A Man for All Seasons
Abraham is revered by the major monotheistic religions. In Judaism, what he went through is constantly being re-examined to provide us with an example we...
We Need to Talk About the Importance of Non-Orthodox Movements
JNS.org - The Jewish Federations of North America held their annual General Assembly last week under the title “We Need to Talk” -- with “we”...
New York Times Hypes Speculative Story of Mayor de Blasio and the Yeshivas
In the ongoing train wreck that is the New York Times coverage of Orthodox Jewish schools in New York comes this breathless paragraph from a...
The UN Hates Jews Who Defend Themselves
JNS.org - As Hamas violence along the border with Israel intensified last week, UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nickolay E. Mladenov tweeted,...
The World Is Playing into Iranian Hands
JNS.org - The situation along the Gaza border is all about containment. It appears that every time some kind of truce deal is about to...
Don’t Use the Temple Mount to Placate Jordan
JNS.org - Israel’s upcoming negotiations with Jordan about renewing the lease agreements for the lands in the Jordan Valley and in the Arava Desert may...
Drawing the Line Between Speech and Violence
JNS.org - In Israel, it’s a yearly debate. Every year on the anniversary of Yitzhak Rabin’s tragic assassination, some on the left and the right...
The Wafa ‘News’ Agency: The Palestinian Propaganda Factory
While the recent Human Rights Watch report about torture and human rights violations under the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Hamas touches on the topic of...
