Commentary
Gaza: Let Their People Go!
“If the borders opened for one hour, 100,000 young people would leave Gaza." -- Rashid al-Najja, vice dean, Gaza’s Al-Azhar University. “...I’d go to Somalia, Sudan...
Richard Gere Plays a ‘Macher’ in New Film
In the movie Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer, Richard Gere doesn’t fall in love with any pretty women. But he does a spectacular job of playing a wannabe "macher" -- or big shot. Gere's character,...
Israeli Entrepreneurs See a Bright Future for Solar Technology
JNS.org - In October 2016, SpaceX and Tesla founder Elon Musk unveiled Powerwall II, a high-performance rechargeable battery powered by a solar roof. This new technology looks like a regular housing unit's roof, and is designed to replace the bulky silicon...
Veterans Affairs Is New Frontier in the US-Israel Military Relationship
JNS.org - While US-Israeli military ties have long focused on foreign aid packages, intelligence-sharing and jointly developed missile defense technology, veterans affairs could become a major new frontier in that relationship. The seeds of this added dimension were...
Rotterdam Allows Pro-Hamas Conference, Blocks Anti-Hamas Protest
A Hamas front group hosted a conference in Rotterdam on Saturday, and the Dutch authorities blocked pro-Israel activists...
How Erdogan’s Victory Might Be Europe’s Defeat
Over lunch in Istanbul last week, a friend and I spoke about the upcoming Turkish...
Why Does America’s Largest Cell Carrier Call Israel ‘Palestine?’
“I did a double take,” said Rosenblatt, a high-tech consultant from Edgemont, New York, who was...
Human Nature and the Fight Against BDS
Americans -- including American Jews -- tend to be a practical lot. Given that, could...
When Palestinians Kill Palestinians
A frustrated Avigdor Lieberman, Israel's defense minister, criticized the United Nations in a recent phone call with...
Gaza: Let Their People Go!
“If the borders opened for one hour, 100,000 young people would leave Gaza." -- Rashid al-Najja, vice dean, Gaza’s Al-Azhar University. “...I’d go to Somalia, Sudan --...
Richard Gere Plays a ‘Macher’ in New Film
In the movie Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer, Richard Gere doesn’t fall in love with any pretty women. But he...
Israeli Entrepreneurs See a Bright Future for Solar Technology
JNS.org - In October 2016, SpaceX and Tesla founder Elon Musk unveiled Powerwall II, a high-performance rechargeable battery powered by a solar roof. This new technology looks like...
Veterans Affairs Is New Frontier in the US-Israel Military Relationship
JNS.org - While US-Israeli military ties have long focused on foreign aid packages, intelligence-sharing and jointly developed missile defense technology, veterans affairs could become a major new...
Rotterdam Allows Pro-Hamas Conference, Blocks Anti-Hamas Protest
A Hamas front group hosted a conference in Rotterdam on Saturday, and the Dutch authorities blocked pro-Israel activists from protesting the event, according to a Jewish Telegraph Agency (JTA) report. The...
How Erdogan’s Victory Might Be Europe’s Defeat
Over lunch in Istanbul last week, a friend and I spoke about the upcoming Turkish referendum. "Many European Turks are likely to vote 'yes,'" I...
Why Does America’s Largest Cell Carrier Call Israel ‘Palestine?’
“I did a double take,” said Rosenblatt, a high-tech consultant from Edgemont, New York, who was visiting Israel to see his daughter. “I was shocked that an...
Human Nature and the Fight Against BDS
Americans -- including American Jews -- tend to be a practical lot. Given that, could ideas derived from Existentialist philosophy (that French import discussed in...
When Palestinians Kill Palestinians
A frustrated Avigdor Lieberman, Israel's defense minister, criticized the United Nations in a recent phone call with its Middle East envoy, Nikolay Mladenov, for ignoring the ongoing issue...
A Modern Noise That Robs Us of All Peace
Those reading the Passover story can rightly wonder why frogs were such a terrible plague. Was God really showing His power to the Egyptians by sending...
The Case Against Media ‘Objectivity’
Who really believed in the objectivity of journalists? As students we used to debate which was preferable: the Western system of arbitrary rich men owning...
Putting ‘America First’ in the Mideast
America's surgical strike on Syrian regime targets a week and a half ago -- and this past Thursday's "mother of all non-nuclear bomb" attack on Sunni...
A Predictable BDS Win at Tufts
News that Tufts University was the latest to join an ignominious list of schools at which student governments have voted to boycott, divest from and...
Alan Dershowitz: What North Korea Should Teach Us About Iran
We failed to prevent North Korea from developing nuclear weapons. As a result, our options to stop them from developing a delivery system capable of...
