Commentary
The Nascent Russia-Lebanon Alliance and Israel
The Russian entrance into the Syrian battlefield in 2015 propped up the Assad regime. And Moscow has continued to build up its military presence...
UN Women’s Rights Commission Is Just as Hateful as the Rest of the UN
From UN Watch: The UN’s 45-member Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), meeting in its 2017 annual session, singled out Israel as the only country in the world subjected to a condemnatory resolution on women’s...
Abbas Prepares to Implement Harsh Sanctions on Gaza
JNS.org - Anger is rising among the residents of the Gaza Strip following a March 19 speech by Palestinian Authority (PA) leader Mahmoud Abbas. In it, Abbas announced that he would adopt new sanctions against Gaza following...
Israel’s Right to a UN Security Council Seat Is in Danger Unless Trump Takes Action
JNS.org - It's not news that the United Nations has long been an organization characterized by an intense institutional bias against Israel. Reflecting, as it must, the policies and prejudices of the non-democratic majority of its...
Is Putin an Antisemite? It Really Doesn’t Matter
JNS.org - Among Sephardic Jews of my grandmother’s generation, there was a popular, if unproven, belief...
Plato’s Haggadah in the ‘Dialogues’
Now that Jews all over the world will once again assemble around the Seder table...
Why Does Sweden Justify Paying Palestinian Terrorists?
JNS.org - Have you ever read a news report about a Palestinian Arab who starved to...
Orthodox Jews Must Allow and Support Secular Education
One of the biggest challenges that Judaism faces is the Haredi schism. On the one...
Passover in Hebron
Immediately after the Six-Day War ended in June 1967, Hanan Porat -- a child survivor of...
The Nascent Russia-Lebanon Alliance and Israel
The Russian entrance into the Syrian battlefield in 2015 propped up the Assad regime. And Moscow has continued to build up its military presence in...
UN Women’s Rights Commission Is Just as Hateful as the Rest of the UN
From UN Watch: The UN’s 45-member Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), meeting in its 2017 annual session, singled out Israel as the only country...
Abbas Prepares to Implement Harsh Sanctions on Gaza
JNS.org - Anger is rising among the residents of the Gaza Strip following a March 19 speech by Palestinian Authority (PA) leader Mahmoud Abbas. In it,...
Israel’s Right to a UN Security Council Seat Is in Danger Unless Trump Takes Action
JNS.org - It's not news that the United Nations has long been an organization characterized by an intense institutional bias against Israel. Reflecting, as it must,...
Is Putin an Antisemite? It Really Doesn’t Matter
JNS.org - Among Sephardic Jews of my grandmother’s generation, there was a popular, if unproven, belief that Gen. Francisco Franco -- the military dictator who ruled Spain from...
Plato’s Haggadah in the ‘Dialogues’
Now that Jews all over the world will once again assemble around the Seder table and read the Haggadah -- the story of the exodus from Egypt -- it...
Why Does Sweden Justify Paying Palestinian Terrorists?
JNS.org - Have you ever read a news report about a Palestinian Arab who starved to death? Even one? Of course not, because it never happens....
Orthodox Jews Must Allow and Support Secular Education
One of the biggest challenges that Judaism faces is the Haredi schism. On the one hand, the sect is the most dynamic, fastest growing, most passionately...
Passover in Hebron
Immediately after the Six-Day War ended in June 1967, Hanan Porat -- a child survivor of the Arab destruction of Gush Etzion and massacre of more...
Turkey Wages a Personal War in Syria
In a rather theatrical show, the fall of the city of Afrin -- a Kurdish enclave in northwestern Syria -- after two months of battle between Turkish...
Macron’s Proactive Position on Iran: Dialogue vs. Sanctions
Emmanuel Macron’s French presidency has been characterized, so far, by an ambitious promotion of bilateral relations and dialogue with as many states as possible -- as...
What Syria Doesn’t Teach Us About Iran
JNS.org – The explanation many pundits are offering for the Israeli government’s belated admission that it was responsible for the 2007 bombing of a Syrian nuclear...
Why Does Ronald Lauder Want Israel to Be Only Nine Miles Wide?
JNS.org – After a long career in government and Jewish communal service, Ronald S. Lauder just announced his new cause: creating a Palestinian state in Israel’s backyard....
Why Won’t Anyone Listen to Abbas?
JNS.org– Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas keeps telling the world what he thinks. The curious thing is not that he makes statements in which he...
