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Though Pollard has finally been "sprung," he is still being punished-as a Jew. The system has taken away the thing that is dearest to him--his observance of the Jewish Sabbath.
Neither Israeli-Palestinian peace nor a better life for Palestinians will ever be achievable as long as this culture of death continues to dominate mainstream Palestinian politics.
If 34 years after "peace." an Egyptian athlete still won't shake hands with an Israeli, what does that portend for peace with the Palestinians, whose society is drenched in hatred of Israel and Jews?
Palestinians are so good at propaganda they've won over hapless progressive liberals, including many Jews whose legendary compassion for the downtrodden extends mainly to those outside Judaism.
By Isi Leibler
I rubbed my eyes with incredulity when I read bizarre anti-Israel/pro-Black Lives Matter statements emanating from Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the ADL. Has he completely forgotten the ADL's purpose?
By Ben Shapiro
How in the world is this prevaricating potential-presidential possibly prevailing?
By Isi Leibler
I applaud Israel's government for, albeit belatedly, acting to expel or bar entry to foreigners entering Israel as "tourists" to promote/assist BDS and provoke West Bank Palestinians against the IDF
The world has taken no action against China's militarization of the disputed Spratly Islands. Expect the same with "Palestine".
By Steven Plaut
In true Judaism, it is none of the business of Jews to fix or repair humanity, it is the job of Jews to repair the Jews - a not inconsiderable task - NOT to repair the world.
By Sara Lehmann
The clock probably can’t be turned back to that shining city on a hill, but we still might be able to make America great again.
Thousands of RJJ alumni were, or are still, active in important leadership roles in Jewish life and Jewish communities in the U.S. and Israel.
The Three Weeks are a hard. mournful time. But like any difficult time, it is also a time of opportunity; a time to take the difficult and learn from it, take the sadness and learn to appreciate joy
It behooves Trump and US to remember Pres. Reagan's approach to Russia, especially a Russian like Vladimir Putin: It is imperative to deal with Russia from a position of strength, not weakness.
ZOA again urges the ADL and Jonathan Greenblatt to stop promoting #BLM and to unequivocally condemn the anti-Semitic, Israel-hating #BLM.
Reports confirm a profound, bilateral disconnect between Israelis living in US and local Jewish communities. We're not embracing Israelis living here, and, unsurprisingly, they're not embracing us.
By Ben Shapiro
The Defense Ministry maintains that the Iran deal “only damages the uncompromising struggle we must make against terrorist states like Iran.” Not exactly as Obama sees Israel's position
Preventing free speech worldwide is Jihad, but the Jewish people are Islam’s perpetual target.
I urge you to take action at your shul to pass a motion to add rules that will protect your children–our children from predators. And never say “it won’t happen here.”
Outrageously the Joint List took the unprecedented step of publicly condemning a leading Arab state for forging warmer relations with its own country, the one in whose parliament it serves.
Too many young people are misdirected and hurt by temptations they were never given the tools to control.
To paraphrase West with a slight twist: Ain't no doubt in my mind: one day, brother, the Palestinians will be free of the cruel totalitarian Palestinian regimes that occupy and oppress them.
If the Bet Ha’Mikdash was destroyed because we turned a nation into individuals, why wasn’t it rebuilt when the individuals returned to being a nation?
Victimization is a recognized, essential strategy of Islam. The best way to justify hate is to assume the role of victim; one cannot hate unless one feels oppressed and victimized.
By Steven Plaut
The option is binary: You are School A or School B. What School are you?
Jewish college students face a climate of intimidation on several California campuses, and campuses around the country
By dvora
In Europe these days you will find not a single rally to protest the murder of Father Jacques Hamel. The day an 85-year-old priest was killed in a French church, nobody said "We are all Catholics".
Guinea resuming ties with Israel almost half a century after severing them is a nontrivial piece of good news. It proves Israel's shift in foreign policy is bearing fruit.
I am not interested in moral purity. I am interested in defeating the left and its political arm, the Democratic Party. America cannot live another 4 years with a Democratic president
Trump's convention speech was a blast of anti-American sentiment and despair that might fit his own political marketing plan but is nothing less than a repellent slander against these United States.
By Noah Beck
Denial is not a strategy. Western countries that cherish women's rights must wake up to the fact that many migrants could challenge those values
By dvora
Obama talks about terrorist--while never referring to them as Muslims--like they’re misguided youths who need more time with community organizers such as the young Barack Obama.
Those in the Orthodox world who demean the crowning event of modern Jewish life– the reestablishment of Israel as a Jewish homeland – must ask themselves: Am I like Pinchas? Is my zealousness true?
It’s not only wrong for the ADL to have failed to condemn as blatant anti-Semitism Cong. Hank Johnson (D-GA)’s “termites” label for Jews living in YESHA and to have accepted his phony apology “tweet
Younger Haredim, while remaining passionately committed to Orthodox Judaism, are increasingly rejecting their rabbinic leadership’s hardline positions on numerous issues
The Palestine Museum opened in an impressive building--but no exhibits. That may be temporary, but it's certainly symbolic: an empty museum for a people without national authenticity or history
By Ziva Dahl
One year after they signed the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action--the Iran deal--the mullahs are supremely confident that America and the West will do nothing to enforce the agreement.
It is the presence of the Jewish mother, with her selfless role in engendering harmony and peace, that is the fiercely burning flame within the holy light of the Jewish people.
Building character and developing self control are challenges that are not seen, but therein lies real success.
A tribute to Kesher Israel (KI) Congregation’s beloved Cantor Seymour Rockoff on the occasion of his first yahrzeit
B'Tselem – who has received $2,202,381 over the last 10 years from the American Jewish non-profit organization, The New Israel Fund
By David Bogner
Since it was a right wing coalition majority that passed the new law, many left wing MKs are calling it 'anti-democratic', and are bemoaning it as 'the death of Israeli democracy'.
Nearly a year after her confrontation with Nesenoff, Thomas admitted her apology was disingenuous, telling writer David Hochman that she really didn’t regret her anti-Jewish, anti-Israel statements.
In Israel, the EU flies the false flags of "human rights" and "peace" and is anything but transparent as it funnels money into 'NGOs' trying to subvert the nation
An organization that gets most of its funding from a foreign government isn’t a “nongovernmental” organization at all, but an instrument of that government’s foreign policy and the EU knows that
Troubling statistics on Muslim attitudes toward Western values help explain the relentless avalanche of terrorist attacks perpetrated by Muslims
By Mark Cohen
While personal revenge is a prohibited and ugly trait, merciless revenge against a threatening foe of national proportions is both just & required. It is the most obvious-and moral-response to terror
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Jewish and Christian pro-Israel leaders worked with presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's team to bring revisions in the GOP party platform's language, strengthening it on Israel
Leading Muslim clerics condemned the attack in Nice, calling for a unified effort against extremism because, as they piously exclaim, they are opposed to extremism in any form-except against Jews
Unwilling or unable to engage in serious conversation, even with European interlocutors much less with Israel, Abbas may finally have made the Palestinian cause too difficult for the Europeans.
By implicating Israel in the killings of blacks by the police, SJP is engaging in the old trope of blaming Jews for systemic and far-reaching societal problems.
By Ben Shapiro
Obama's racist rhetoric isn't responsible for murder, but it's certainly responsible for death. It's led to the greatest rise in racial polarization since the 1970s.
Honenu is an organization dedicated to providing counsel and defense for Jews under administrative detention – house arrest, banishment from their residence, or jail.
The key to a successful classroom? Smiles. When I saw a classroom with students participating, I saw a teacher with a smile on his face.
Marc Lamont Hill, a supporter of BDS and self-proclaimed radical who has supported numerous anti-American initiatives has been named the host of a new late nite talk show on VH1.
By Ben Shapiro
A new study reported by The New York Times says that black people are significantly less likely to be shot by police than white people in similar circumstances. Obama clearly doesn't read the Times.
What exactly does the bill that finally passed the Knesset do? The short answer to that is--not much
By Ben Shapiro
After his inflammatory statements condemning the systemic racism in American justice system, what sort of responsibility does President Obama bear for the massacre in Dallas?
By Jeff Ballabon and Bruce Abramson
Was AIPAC’s power overhyped? What does the massive and very public embarrassment of the organization’s Iran deal defeat mean for the future of pro-Israel activism in the United States?
President Obama seems to value endangered Muslim lives more than the lives of endangered Christians and Yazidis.
By Matan Peleg
Only a sick democracy allows for foreign governments to meddle in its internal affairs and to advance a policy that undermines its very right to exist and in this case funds the murder of Jews.
By Hank Sheinkopf, Ronn Torossian
Israel must always be a bi-partisan issue and sadly we’ve recently seen that historic bond between Israel and the Democratic Party erode and weaken.
By Ben Shapiro
Hillary Clinton is a member of the Royal Family. Thus, said Comey, she was innocent.
For many years, Palestinian cause supporters, especially in the media, have pushed the idea that poverty causes terrorism. Attributing terrorism to poverty offers an easy and incorrect excuse.
It is 10 years since the Second Lebanon War, an entirely inglorious and partially botched and inconclusive affair, rapidly forgotten.
People who find BDS terrible, effectively engage in BDS themselves by avoiding visiting the incredible, and very Zionist, accomplishments of Ariel and Ariel University.
We've got to push Bibi into facing the world, and declare that we are here to stay, all over Israel and the West Bank and declare sovereignty over lands where we live and work
Prime Minister Begin knew the meaning of true independence was not about firecrackers, dancing in the streets or lighting flames. It was about standing up for yourself and submitting to no man.
By dvora
The clash of civilizations has turned into a war between those who cry, "We will not give up our lifestyle" and those who sing, "We desire death more than you desire life."
The source of Abbas' 'Blood Libel' before the EU? The Jewish co-founder of Breaking The Silence, was allegedly filmed telling a group of tourists that Israeli settlers had poisoned the water system.
By Alexandra Weaderhorn and Rachel Marks
There is an excellent prenup available, the Beth Din of America {BDA} Prenuptial Agreement, a binding arbitration agreement obligating them to appear at the BDA for the giving and receiving of a get.
By David Wilder
How can Israel's government actualize King David's directive "Veer from evil and do good" ? First, destroy the wicked-ensure evil suffers. Second, wherever an attack occurs, build a new community
The postmodern peace movement is on the march again, denying the murderous nature of radical Islam and pretending that guns are the problem. For Obama-style peaceniks, radical Islam does not exist
Seventy-five years ago this summer, Peter Bergson (real name: Hillel Kook) and a handful of colleagues launched what became the most dramatic political action campaign in US Jewish history.
The Meraglim were without tzitzis? The mitzvah of tzitzis is instructive; it teaches the Jew how to look and see. – or they are a constant reminder of God’s Commandments.
Don't be fooled by Israel's improved relations with certain Arab states, it is not based on their accepting Israel but fear-of Iran and desertion by US
By Fred Maroun
Concerns over immigration have lately been widespread across the West, evidenced by Britain leaving the EU and the strength of Donald Trump's campaign
The list of Palestinian “poisoning” claims in recent years is lengthy and colorful and ALL lies.
By Noah Rothman
The Benghazi committee found that the U.S. military made no effort to intervene on behalf of the besieged Americans under attack in Benghazi over the course of that 13-hour assault.
Omar Mateen, the Orlando shooter, was was an armed security guard who had the legal right to pack and carry. And a terrorist. Anti-gun laws would not have mattered.
‘Israel is the Jewish state’ has a concrete meaning: the owners of the land of Israel are the Jewish people, not all its citizens.
Referring to the renewed relations with Turkey, Netanyahu said, “The Middle East is in turmoil. My policy is to create islands of stability with our close neighbors,”
Recently, an entire ideology has developed based on bad analogies-intersectionality. It is the theory that forms of oppression and discrimination interrelate, creating a system of oppression.
By Tarek Fatah
If there were any doubts the West is abdicating its responsibility to stand up for Western values, the amateur attempts by the FBI to cover up the Islamist nature of the Orlando attack, removed them.
As the father of a victim, it’s not the mention of the terrorist group that re-victimizes me and my family. It’s the refusal of the Obama administration to say "radical Islamic terrorism,"
By Josh Hasten
“Instead of denying [the new video’s] validity,” says Bedein, “UNRWA should bring it to the attention of donor nations that they are funding war curriculum education within a U.N. organization, so that the situation can be rectified.”
If Abbas were serious about peace, he'd accept Bibi's invitation to address the Knesset thereby completely changing the dynamic of the stalled peace process and Israeli public opinion
"Governors and legislatures are morally and politically right to 'counter'-boycott BDS."
By Steven Plaut
This year, as usual, demagogue politicians are joining the calls for yet another state commission of inquiry into the hysteria of "kidnapped Yemenite children"
We, the Jewish people, are like the candles of the menorah. Once “lit,” we must remain lit, a living source of light.
By Ben Cohen
Never mind the absence of a bipartisan consensus about what we should do; our politicians are engaged in unsightly squabbling about the nature of the problem itself, divisions abound,
It is easy to dismiss, as some have, this presidential election cycle as a 4-year diversion. We just have to get through the next four years and all will be well, they say. I could not disagree more.
By Jason Maoz
Not only is the weather heating up, but so too is the election season. Included here are some highly recommended books on presidential campaigns.
Shabbos is not only the culmination of the week but of creation and a great time to contemplate both-and then nap.
Paradoxically, only Israel has the ability to subdue Islam and live with it in peace. Israel, of course, has not actualized this potential.
The American Anthropological Association (AAA) has voted against a Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) resolution to boycott Israeli academic institutions.
Cuomo’s anti-BDS executive action mirrors those of the states that refused to do business with North Carolina because of its transgender discrimination.
By Steven Plaut
Bar-Ilan tenured professor Menachem Klein is one of the leading Bash-Israel academics who has a special passion for the idea of dividing Jerusalem and removing Israel from its sacred shrines.
By Mark Cohen
The difference between Jewish and Arab violence is nothing less than the difference between what is right and what is wrong.
By Rabbi Dr. Nathan Lopes Cardozo
A modern allegory of politics, Israel and the world by Rabbi Cardozo based on a Dutch fairy tale
A Palestinian terrorist convicted of murdering a Christian clergyman has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize – by one of the world's most prominent Christian clergymen
September 25, 2026 
