Commentary
Why Jews Find Themselves in the Eye of the Storm
JNS.org - Antisemitism is now a major issue in the West. In Britain, there are continuing convulsions over rampant antisemitism in the Labour Party. In America,...
Fringe Vassar College ‘Disorientation Guide’ Embraces Antisemitism and Describes College as a ‘Monster’
A group of Vassar students, calling themselves “VC brewers hellbent on nothing but destruction,” distributed a socialist manifesto titled “Vassar College Disorientation Guide 2018-2019” to incoming freshmen to counter Vassar’s six-day New Student Orientation program...
A BDS Lesson in Dishonesty
In a 2,000-word diatribe in The New York Times, Joesph Levine, a philosophy professor and a member of the Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) Academic Advisory Council, defends BDS, asking, “Is Boycotting Israel ‘Hate’?” He claims,...
What We Must All Do This Rosh Hashanah
We are about to enter the season of long synagogue services, with a liturgy that, when translated into English or any vernacular, strikes many people as archaic, distant, and even irrelevant. How many of us...
The Need for Strength and Self-Defense: The Lessons of Syria
JNS.org - The centerpiece of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur liturgy is the “Unetaneh Tokef”...
5779: A New Year of Hope
Those of us privileged to live in Israel should give thanks to the Almighty and...
25 Years of Oslo Illusions
JNS.org - When the Trump administration announced that it was ending its funding of the United...
Jordan Doesn’t Want a Confederation
JNS.org - The statement from Jordanian government spokeswoman Jumana Ghunaimat about Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas’...
In Iran’s Regional War, Anything Goes
JNS.org - Efforts to solidify its foothold and place missiles in western Iraq, to send shipments...
Why Jews Find Themselves in the Eye of the Storm
JNS.org - Antisemitism is now a major issue in the West. In Britain, there are continuing convulsions over rampant antisemitism in the Labour Party. In America, there...
Fringe Vassar College ‘Disorientation Guide’ Embraces Antisemitism and Describes College as a ‘Monster’
A group of Vassar students, calling themselves “VC brewers hellbent on nothing but destruction,” distributed a socialist manifesto titled “Vassar College Disorientation Guide 2018-2019” to...
A BDS Lesson in Dishonesty
In a 2,000-word diatribe in The New York Times, Joesph Levine, a philosophy professor and a member of the Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) Academic...
What We Must All Do This Rosh Hashanah
We are about to enter the season of long synagogue services, with a liturgy that, when translated into English or any vernacular, strikes many people...
The Need for Strength and Self-Defense: The Lessons of Syria
JNS.org - The centerpiece of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur liturgy is the “Unetaneh Tokef” prayer: “Let us tell how utterly holy this day is.”...
5779: A New Year of Hope
Those of us privileged to live in Israel should give thanks to the Almighty and appreciate the extraordinary achievements of the past year, and pray...
25 Years of Oslo Illusions
JNS.org - When the Trump administration announced that it was ending its funding of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) last week, the protests...
Jordan Doesn’t Want a Confederation
JNS.org - The statement from Jordanian government spokeswoman Jumana Ghunaimat about Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas’ comments on a US suggestion of a Jordanian-Palestinian confederation was short...
In Iran’s Regional War, Anything Goes
JNS.org - Efforts to solidify its foothold and place missiles in western Iraq, to send shipments of arms to Lebanon, and to build precision missile factories...
It Can Be Done: Rosh Hashanah and the Rescue of Denmark’s Jews
As the final minutes of Rosh Hashanah ticked away, 13 year-old Leo Goldberger was hiding, along with his parents and three brothers, in the thick brush...
Why Hamas Escalated Its War — and Why It Is Winning
The accumulated deterrence achieved in the three previous rounds of wide-scale fighting between Israel and Hamas in 2008-9, 2012, and 2014 has come to a...
What Jewish Law Says About Vaccination
As children and parents welcome in a new school year, public attention is once again focused on questions over whether there is legal and ethical...
New York Times Rosh Hashanah Food Recommendation: Butter-Drenched Chicken, Ice Cream
The Food section of The New York Times is greeting the Jewish New Year with an article that is going to make a lot of the...
The IDF’s Latest Innovation in Combat Tactics
JNS.org - The IDF recently held a large-scale war drill in the northern part of the country, in which military commanders got a chance to...
