Commentary
Don’t Be So Quick to Trust Saudi Arabia
Close ties between Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and his unofficial counterpart in the US, Jared Kushner, were seen as the basis for...
It Can Take Interesting Characters to Carry Out God’s Will
A century ago this week, Lord Arthur Balfour, the British foreign secretary and former prime minister, dispatched his now famous 67-word letter to Lord Walter Rothschild, addressed to the latter’s residence in central London. Rothschild was...
Abbas’ Guardian Op-Ed Illustrates the Dishonesty of the ‘Palestinian Narrative’
The Guardian’s efforts to amplify the "injustice" of Israel’s continued existence in the context of the Balfour Centennial went into high gear when they published an op-ed by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. The op-ed included nearly every distortion and lie within...
Anti-Propaganda Film Targeting Israel Is Itself Propaganda
JNS.org -- A new anti-Israel movie -- “The Occupation of the American Mind: Israel’s Public Relations War in the United States” -- is making the rounds. Released in 2016, the movie has already been shown in a...
New York Times Celebrates Bob Dylan for Looking ‘Like Jesus’
What is it with The New York Times and Jews who become Christian? The top of...
Teachers, Students and Judaism
It is out of the notion expressed in earlier essays that my philosophy on Judaism...
Kurds Could Be Key US Ally in Anti-Iran Efforts
Kurdish President Massoud Barzani, in his first comment on the military rout of his Peshmerga...
SPME BDS Monitor: The Movement Returns to Campus
In October, BDS was characterized by "intersectional" accusations and a variety of assaults on free...
Jewish Action — Not Balfour — Created Israel
The campaign waged by Palestinians and their supporters to demand that Britain apologize for the...
Don’t Be So Quick to Trust Saudi Arabia
Close ties between Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and his unofficial counterpart in the US, Jared Kushner, were seen as the basis for US...
It Can Take Interesting Characters to Carry Out God’s Will
A century ago this week, Lord Arthur Balfour, the British foreign secretary and former prime minister, dispatched his now famous 67-word letter to Lord Walter...
Abbas’ Guardian Op-Ed Illustrates the Dishonesty of the ‘Palestinian Narrative’
The Guardian’s efforts to amplify the "injustice" of Israel’s continued existence in the context of the Balfour Centennial went into high gear when they published an op-ed by Palestinian Authority President...
Anti-Propaganda Film Targeting Israel Is Itself Propaganda
JNS.org -- A new anti-Israel movie -- “The Occupation of the American Mind: Israel’s Public Relations War in the United States” -- is making the rounds. Released...
New York Times Celebrates Bob Dylan for Looking ‘Like Jesus’
What is it with The New York Times and Jews who become Christian? The top of the front page of the Times arts section features an...
Teachers, Students and Judaism
It is out of the notion expressed in earlier essays that my philosophy on Judaism has gradually emerged. It is a slow process that has...
Kurds Could Be Key US Ally in Anti-Iran Efforts
Kurdish President Massoud Barzani, in his first comment on the military rout of his Peshmerga forces, vowed that the overwhelming vote for Kurdish independence in...
SPME BDS Monitor: The Movement Returns to Campus
In October, BDS was characterized by "intersectional" accusations and a variety of assaults on free speech, university and Jewish organizations. Among the most odious were...
Jewish Action — Not Balfour — Created Israel
The campaign waged by Palestinians and their supporters to demand that Britain apologize for the Balfour Declaration, a century after it was issued, betrays yet...
Iran’s War, and America’s Shame, in Kurdistan
JNS.org - Prior to the referendum in Iraqi Kurdistan on September 25, the leaders of Iran, Turkey and Iraq all foretold of the coming of a...
‘Revisionist’ New York Times Suddenly Discovers New Love for Jabotinsky, Begin
The New York Times runs a truly overheated and ridiculous “Memo From Jerusalem” by Isabel Kershner under the headline “Is the End of Israeli Democracy...
The Space Between Us
The stories told in Bereishit chapters 21 and 22 -- the sending away of Ishmael and the binding of Isaac -- are among the hardest to understand...
Alan Dershowitz: The Forward’s Defense of an Antisemitic Cartoon Is Unacceptable
When the official newspaper of Berkeley published a color caricature of me as a spider-like creature with one leg stomping on a Palestinian child and...
American Soullessness and the Opioid Epidemic
Citing his own family’s struggles with addiction, President Donald Trump last week movingly declared the opioid epidemic a public health emergency. As the president of the...
