By Efraim Inbar
The coalition negotiations demonstrated that preserving Israel’s capital is a low priority for the incoming government—this is a mistake.
Those who see Israel’s new government as “racist” and “homophobic” prefer not to be confused by the facts.
Antisemitism in the United States is being exploited by separatists in order to destroy the integrationist ideal.
As it is always wise to ask ourselves questions that may lead to a better understanding of the issues, people, and events that will define the next twelve months, I present the "12 Questions"
Benjamin Netanyahu and King Charles turn out to have something in common.
Ultimately, while Modern Orthodoxy may have its issues, it is imperative that it ultimately succeed.
Anti-Zionism is thus at its heart an insistence on perpetual Jewish weakness, on Jews’ eternal dependence on the kindness and indulgence of non-Jewish majorities
She was a wonderful storyteller. And that is how I learned so many parts of my history. Our visits always ended with ice cream, a favorite of both of ours.
This legislation has no special connection to the LGBT, just as it has no special connection to Islam, or to skin color.
the first successful experiment to extract power from controlled fusion
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
We embodied the Talmudic saying that all Jews are responsible for one another.
Israel’s controversial Maccabean Three may be channeling Jewish history all over again.
Israel’s new generation of NGOs is lean, mean, and surprisingly effective.
By Alex Selsky
Hanukkah symbolizes the need to celebrate victories and end the exile in our minds and spirit.
No, this is NOT the name of a new rock band
There is much for Israel to be proud of, even as it faces challenges both from without and within.
Due to ongoing but unpublicized Muslim persecution of Christians in Bethlehem and the surrounding Christian villages, Christianity is on the verge of disappearing in the place of its birth -- Bethlehem, giving the Christmas song "Silent Night," an ominous meaning.
By JCFA- Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs
The EU plan to help the PA build in Area C is an egregious violation of the Oslo Accords.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
With low costs, immersion in the Start-Up Nation and antisemitism spiking, it’s no wonder students are choosing the Jewish state.
Our yeshivas nowadays, especially those in town, are cubbyholes. If you don’t fit into the cubby, you can’t go to that yeshiva.
By Ruthie Blum
The predictable NY Times attack on the incoming Netanyahu government was an exercise in “legitimate” delegitimization.
The Banat family directly accused PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas of being responsible for their son’s death.
Time to End a Century of Rejecting Israel
As global events increasingly threaten Western stability, governments have demonstrated no inclination to entertain a diversity of viewpoints or discussions along the way. Instead, the more serious the issue, the more committed to a single, overarching "narrative" they seem to become.
We all know accommodation isn't popular, does not have the cache of moral purity and absolutism, of defiant declarations. But life is usually lived in a grayer place, unattractive as that is.
This is a false choice. We must be forthright and confident in articulating our values, but we should also avoid being needlessly antagonistic, intellectually dishonest, or uncharitable in our interpretations.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Midterm elections, Israeli elections, Russia, Ukraine, North Korea, China and more.
By Ruthie Blum
Contrary to the claims of disingenuous fear-mongers, Religious Zionism and United Torah Judaism aim to enable gender segregation at events held and attended by those who wish to practice it.
This Hanukkah, let’s celebrate Israel’s incoming government as well.
By Bassam Tawil
This is not the first poll to show that a majority of Palestinians oppose the "two-state solution." That is because they are clamoring for a Palestinian state not alongside Israel, but instead of Israel.
By Alex Selsky
They are sewing a new yellow patch, looking down and laughing at us.
By Ruthie Blum
COVID-19 and its variants are likely here to stay, and we can live with that. It’s the officials with the power to dictate how we do so that we need to worry about.
By Guy Millière
ANY construction of homes in existing Israeli suburbs has been condemned by the Biden State Department. By contrast, The Biden WH has never made the slightest remark concerning the massive illegal Palestinian construction intended to create "facts on the ground" or "land grabs" in both the West Bank and Israel's Negev desert
There is a famous dispute between Beit Hillel and Beit Shammai regarding how we should light the Chanukah lights. Beit Hillel maintains that one should always increase, lighting one light on the first night and subsequently adding another light each night, until eight lights are lit on the eighth night. Beit Shammai argues the opposite […]
The relentless war of delegitimization of the Jewish State generated two very significant defeats for Israel,
How is it conceivable that of all people, Hitler and his Master Race delusions are receiving a pop-cultural renaissance?
Without the prior establishment of stable regional security conditions, Israel is not prepared to commit itself to the Non-Proliferation Treaty while other regional powers constantly threaten its existence.
“The Israel we knew is back — that is, the badass Jewish state that protects the Jewish ethnic minority in this region has returned.”
By Matan Peleg
Why would NGOs, U.N. agencies and international organizations ever want to give up the filthy lucre they get for bashing Israel?
Every mayor has their own methodology, each of forming a link in a chain of the global endeavor we are undertaking.
So please, as Israel approaches its 75th birthday, look at the big picture: no country has contributed more to the world in its first three-quarters of a century than has Israel; no country faced with dangers comparable to those faced by Israel has had a better record of human rights, compliance with the rule of law and concern for enemy civilians than Israel.
Diplomats and ex-diplomats have long demanded one-sided concessions from Israel that endanger its security.
His shiurim to the women of the shul were serious and substantive, and when he spoke at the annual melaveh malka, he made sure to position himself so that the women could see him. They were reckoned part of the kehillah, and he was addressing them, as well.
Working conditions are medieval. Laborers are forced to work long hours, often seven days a week, even in the extreme heat which can reach above 44 degrees Celsius (112 degrees Fahrenheit).
The Zionist narrative has demonstrable validity over the counter-narrative of the Palestinian Arabs, and thus the Zionist narrative must prevail.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The organization behind the World Cup has a long history of enabling hatred of Jews and the Jewish state.
The embrace of the Palestinian cause by Morocco’s team and many Arab fans shows the gap between their governments’ appreciation of Israel and popular opinion.
By JCFA- Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs
Qatar has steered attention away from its own human rights abuses by allowing for pro-Palestinian messaging during the World Cup.
By Ben Shapiro
The fate of our children’s children rests with us – with whether we surrender the legacy of our forefathers for a little temporary convenience, or whether we stand proud and strong in the face of the storms to come.
One of the beautiful things about a democratic republic is you agree on the rules in advance. That way, everybody buys into the outcome. It's like a football game. If you were to change the rules in the middle of the game, first half Super Bowl for example, the Los Angeles Rams needed 10 yards for a first down, but in the second half, it went up to 15. That's what happened in the 2020 election, is the rules changed in the middle of the game.
By Avi Ciment
Amazingly, this obnoxious, rude egomaniac took a strong stance in favor of Israel. In fact, his record speaks for itself, and so for that alone, I became a supporter.
By Moshe Dann
With the 'Oslo process' as his 'GREAT' gift, what is Rabin's TRUE legacy?
By Moshe Dann
Peres’s 'peace' and his support for Palestinianism and “the two-state solution” is a nightmare that still haunts us. It is his true legacy.
What's the definition of insanity?
I took each mother’s case to heart. In fact, the number of cases I worked on was permanently etched in my mind.
Pro-Palestinian and other radical activists use emotional blackmail to force vulnerable people into submission and sometimes suicide.
As I was packing to return home to Jerusalem, I realized that I hadn’t asked Zevie if it was Ivan’s shofar that he had blown.
Mom understood that she would probably not get a chance to say very much to the Queen so she was busy writing the few words she wanted to convey. In fact, she spent more time on this than her outfit.
By David Suissa
We’re no longer that weak kid in school, and we should stop acting like one. It’s time to start acting like winners, not because it’s a smart PR strategy but because it’s who we are.
By Bassam Tawil
Much of this incitement is coming from Arabs whose governments signed peace treaties or other agreements with Israel: Egypt, Jordan and the Palestinians.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Biden knows he needs the Israel-hating left in 2024, and is acting accordingly.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The redefinition, suppression and denigration of Jewish identity on campus are at all-time highs.
One of the most anti-Semitic institutions in the world is the Palestinian Authority.
Irving, West, the Black Israelites, the Nation of Islam and their ilk have no choice but to demonize the Jews, because Jewish endurance and legitimacy expose the fraud at the heart of their invented identity.
The former president was wrong to host antisemites, but other political leaders have legitimized Jew-haters with no pushback. Why?
Donald John Trump is a Philosemite.
Iran is working against Israel on all fronts. The activity in the West Bank is another step in the tightening of Iran’s stranglehold around Israel.
By Ariel Kahana
According to an Israeli source, "2023 is predicted to be a decisive and difficult year" when it comes to antisemitism in the American mainstream.
It's as if Belgium has given up, accepting its destiny as a multicultural country with a Muslim majority
For the past three years when there was no clear winner in the elections, the politicians managed to keep going using various rotating portfolios and other mechanisms to share power. But now, with the Right being the clear winner in the election, there is a golden opportunity to return to stability.
–Is it REALLY the most extreme in the history of the universe?
Perhaps the only true Jewish pride comes not from simply being Jewish, but from gratitude and resolution.
Women have become a major part of the defense effort, especially in the fields of intelligence and cyber security. More and more, women are beginning to enter actual combat units.
By Naomi Kahn
“Another bad idea from two guys who consistently have been wrong on US - Israel policy"
By Ruthie Blum
The “anyone but Bibi” crowd never lets the inconvenient truth that the spike in violence cannot be attributed to the incoming government disrupt its narrative. And Transportation Merav Michaeli is the queen bee of chutzpah on this score.
By Avi Ciment
I didn’t get the memo that I was actually standing in front of G-d and blowing an opportunity to ask Him for brachos.
Biden's Israel policy is an unholy mess.
The mullahs played that trick with presidents Clinton, George W. Bush, Obama, and Trump. In every case, except that of Trump, the trick worked.
America’s presidents, past AND present, must confront and condemn the antisemites who are spreading Jew-hatred throughout our country now.
The 1922 League of Nations Mandate for Palestine, which placed that entire area under the governance of Great Britain, for the sole purpose of creating a Jewish state on all of the land.
DRUZE HAVE NOT ADOPTED WESTERN QUALMS ABOUT WAR, CONFLICT, VICTORY, AND DEFEAT...THIS IS THE SPIRIT THAT ISRAEL MUST RECAPTURE IF IT IS TO HAVE ANY HOPE OF EMERGING VICTORIOUS
In the month leading up to our anniversary, we had two family weddings, one from each side. It was inevitable at each simcha to note the leaves that had fallen off the family trees, the gaps in the branches.
By Bennett Ruda
As Well As It Treats Jordan, Saudi Arabia and The Palestinian Authority-and just about every other country you can name
The incoming Netanyahu government will have to reevaluate the security policy in the West Bank and change the strategy, which has been proven to be insufficient to stop the new wave of terrorism.
By Ben Shapiro
It's nothing new that the Left routinely cites violent incidents as reasons to crack down on free speech with which they disagree
Iran's deepening involvement in the Ukraine conflict can no longer be ignored
Deep changes in American society are a security risk for Israel.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
If we want to create a new liturgy that stands a chance of becoming a lasting, vital contribution to Jewish spiritual life, we will not achieve this by going through the siddur with a red pen.
The great man failed to flee the Nazis until it was almost too late; we shouldn’t make the same mistake.
To be there is to return to the source of Jewish history in the promised land.
"Just take me down the road!" A total stranger. An elderly man. It wasn't a question; it was a statement, an instruction.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
When we start Zionism’s clock with Abraham, we risk overgeneralizing the term.
By David Suissa
Because Dave Chappelle plays in the very Jewish playground of comedy, it makes it that much harder to calibrate our response.
By Moshe Dann
Since the two-state solution has no practical relevance, why do people support it?
By Hanan Greenwood / Israel Hayom
For a decade Shaked was the darling of the Right-even thought to have PM potential--but after a series of mistakes?
By Avi Ciment
The shift, for many of those leaving Modern Orthodoxy, is not necessarily based on anger but rather on a general disconnect.