Commentary
US Interests Require Israel on the Golan Heights
JNS.org - US interests in the Middle East and beyond are well-served by a strategically contained Syria. Historically, Syria has been a tectonic, volatile platform of violent,...
Conservative Jews Stand Up to Anti-Israel Rhetoric
JNS.org - Members and alumni of the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism (USCJ) are the latest targets of IfNotNow, an organization that seeks to promote sympathy for the Palestinian narrative by encouraging fellow Jews to oppose...
We Must Never Be Ashamed to Be Jewish
A few years ago, my wife and I had Shabbat dinner at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Because I love Iceland, I was especially happy to meet its president at the time, Olafur Grimsson,...
Iraqi Parliamentarian, Friend of US and Israel, Calls for ‘Mideast Summit’ as Islamists Burn Ballots in Baghdad
Last week, as Islamists burned ballot boxes in Baghdad, Iraqi Parliamentarian Mithal al-Alusi -- whose unconventional career in Parliament has included championing normalized relations between his country and Israel -- called on Donald Trump to convene “a Mideast summit...
Turkey Holds ‘Elections’ Again
On June 24, Turkey will hold its sixth election in four years. The Turks will...
An Eye-Opening Trip Through Samaria
I traveled to Samaria (Shomron in Hebrew) recently. Wikipedia tells us Samaria “is a historical...
Antisemitism at the United Nations Cannot Be Ignored
JNS.org - It was just another day at the office for UN officials. As it...
Trump Wants to Sell Deadly Weapons to the Middle East; What Does This Mean for Israel?
The divergence between the Trump administration’s desire to increase arms sales to the Middle East...
US Interests Require Israel on the Golan Heights
JNS.org - US interests in the Middle East and beyond are well-served by a strategically contained Syria. Historically, Syria has been a tectonic, volatile platform of violent, intolerant,...
Conservative Jews Stand Up to Anti-Israel Rhetoric
JNS.org - Members and alumni of the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism (USCJ) are the latest targets of IfNotNow, an organization that seeks to promote sympathy...
We Must Never Be Ashamed to Be Jewish
A few years ago, my wife and I had Shabbat dinner at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Because I love Iceland, I was especially...
Iraqi Parliamentarian, Friend of US and Israel, Calls for ‘Mideast Summit’ as Islamists Burn Ballots in Baghdad
Last week, as Islamists burned ballot boxes in Baghdad, Iraqi Parliamentarian Mithal al-Alusi -- whose unconventional career in Parliament has included championing normalized relations between his country...
Turkey Holds ‘Elections’ Again
On June 24, Turkey will hold its sixth election in four years. The Turks will choose between augmenting what is practically one-man rule based on...
The Rebbe to the World
Few men are able to shape the world in death as they did in life. To do so is to subsume your existence to a...
An Eye-Opening Trip Through Samaria
I traveled to Samaria (Shomron in Hebrew) recently. Wikipedia tells us Samaria “is a historical and biblical name used for the central region of ancient...
Antisemitism at the United Nations Cannot Be Ignored
JNS.org - It was just another day at the office for UN officials. As it has done innumerable times in the last 50 years, on...
Trump Wants to Sell Deadly Weapons to the Middle East; What Does This Mean for Israel?
The divergence between the Trump administration’s desire to increase arms sales to the Middle East and the capacity limits of Arab clients for what the...
Trump, Kim, and the ‘Good Citizen’
JNS.org - One of the many memorable scenes in The Lives of Others -- an exemplary German movie whose plot centers on the Stasi secret police...
Vladimir Putin’s Self-Fulfilling Prophecy of Confrontation and Isolation
JNS.org - Vladimir Putin was the only candidate who did not campaign in the Russian presidential elections held on March 18. There was no need. Putin,...
The Legacy of the Rebbe: We Must Never Give Up on Any Jew
JNS.org - The Chabad-Lubavitch movement has been in the news recently due to a video clip of people laying tefillin at an airport. I would like to discuss...
Remembering Carmel College
I have a childhood memory of a meeting in our London home at this time of the year, 70 years ago. My father, Kopul Rosen,...
The Torah — and Trump’s Embrace of a Dictator
This week we witnessed momentous and unprecedented scenes in Singapore -- as the president of the United States sat down with the leader of North...
