Beliefs and concepts
Christian Group Holds Rally in Washington D.C. to Support Israel
Washington, D.C. - Nearly 5,000 Christians from all over the world, including just under 1,000 college students and an 18-member contingent from Nigeria,...
Hundreds of Israelis and Palestinians Break Respective Fasts Together
As 122 Gaza rockets struck Israel on Tuesday, hundreds of observant Muslims and observant Jews across Israel united to break their mutual fast day together. The events brought the people of the two different faiths together...
American Christian Leaders Begin Year-Long Study in Israel
JNS.org - Eighteen American Christian leaders this week began the Christian Leadership Initiative (CLI), a year-long intensive study of Judaism in Israel with the goal of further bolstering interreligious dialogue and understanding between the...
Israel Bonds Not Just a Charity Anymore
JNS.org - Facing a constant barrage of rockets from Hamas terrorists in Gaza, Israel's economy is proving just as dependable during the current crisis as the much-acclaimed Iron Dome missile defense system, helped in...
Muslim Zionism is Key to Mideast Peace
The latest Egyptian-brokered ceasefire, should it prove effective, will doubtless comfort some Israelis and disturb...
This Time Around, Surprising Support for Israel – Not Hamas
The current Hamas assault on Israel has lured the predictable coven of Palestinian nationalists, Islamists,...
Hamas Versus Israel: The Case for Moral Clarity
Two centuries ago, the great German poet Goethe said: "The hardest thing to see is...
The Corrosive Self-Delusion of the Presbyterian Church’s Israel Divestment Vote
JNS.org - Much has been written about the deplorable anti-Israel divestment vote at the...
Christian Group Holds Rally in Washington D.C. to Support Israel
Washington, D.C. - Nearly 5,000 Christians from all over the world, including just under 1,000 college students and an 18-member contingent from Nigeria, assembled...
Hundreds of Israelis and Palestinians Break Respective Fasts Together
As 122 Gaza rockets struck Israel on Tuesday, hundreds of observant Muslims and observant Jews across Israel united to break their mutual fast day together. The...
American Christian Leaders Begin Year-Long Study in Israel
JNS.org - Eighteen American Christian leaders this week began the Christian Leadership Initiative (CLI), a year-long intensive study of Judaism in Israel with the...
Israel Bonds Not Just a Charity Anymore
JNS.org - Facing a constant barrage of rockets from Hamas terrorists in Gaza, Israel's economy is proving just as dependable during the current crisis...
Muslim Zionism is Key to Mideast Peace
The latest Egyptian-brokered ceasefire, should it prove effective, will doubtless comfort some Israelis and disturb others. But all can agree that a ceasefire is a...
This Time Around, Surprising Support for Israel – Not Hamas
The current Hamas assault on Israel has lured the predictable coven of Palestinian nationalists, Islamists, Leftists, and antisemites from the woodwork to bash the Jewish...
Hamas Versus Israel: The Case for Moral Clarity
Two centuries ago, the great German poet Goethe said: "The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes." It's as true today...
Human Nature
We seem to be caught at present in a terrible battle of evil extremism. But the sad fact is that human beings have always been...
The Corrosive Self-Delusion of the Presbyterian Church’s Israel Divestment Vote
JNS.org - Much has been written about the deplorable anti-Israel divestment vote at the recently held 221st General Assembly (GA) of Presbyterian Church USA...
Jihadi Rhetoric: Tiresome, Repetitive, and Deadly
I just spent the better part of the day reading and listening to sermons by the leaders and jihadis of the new "caliphate" in Mesopotamia, the...
No, Not All Mothers Are the Same
Among the many heartbreaking images associated with the kidnap-murder of three Israeli teenagers was a televised interview on June 29 with the mother of one...
The Leftward Tilt of American Jews
Twenty years after the Oslo peace process, and now with the collapse of the recent negotiations mediated by John Kerry, Jewish American leftists groups are...
In Memory of Israel’s Murdered Teens
This past Shabbat we read the parsha of Chukkat with its almost incomprehensible commandment of the red heifer - whose ashes, mixed with "living water,"...
Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, His Murdered Students and a Call to Action
Today, I watched my mentor cry. I picked up the car phone to learn that the bodies of the three kidnapped boys - Naftali Frenkel, Eyal...
