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Why would President Biden now be amenable to a change in attitude? Why would he be at long last ready to acknowledge that civilian casualties are an unfortunate but unavoidable feature of war as Israel claimed all along?
What explains President Joe Biden’s anti-Israel actions since Oct. 7? Painfully, the facts require that we recognize that it’s Biden’s longstanding animus toward the Jewish State.
By Avi Kahn
Our intended goal was to get some much-needed closure – closure for wounds that were still open and bleeding. But more than that, we wanted to give
stop cutting deals with the terrorists.
The French Foreign Ministry advanced two claims as the rationale for its decision to support the ICC—both equally risible and ridiculous
By Guest Author
Jews are constantly bending over backward and rationalizing. The opposition doesn’t rationalize. They want Jews dead.
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
Literally across the street from this wall, just outside the Arab village of Abu Dis, ten Jewish families have renewed the Jewish presence there – nearly a century after Jewish pioneers bought the land for exactly that purpose.
Worse, abandoning Israel sends a troubling message to U.S. allies worldwide: in times of crisis, do not rely on American support.
We come from an extraordinary people. The Jewish people are called in the Torah an Am Kishei Oref, a stiff-necked people. Too often we associate this as only a negative character trait.
The dramatic story was corroborated by former U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman, who was a guest on Bannon's show.
Many countries expressed their disdain with Israel’s response to the attack of Oct. 7 from the outset. Even before we entered Rafah, the Biden administration claimed this incursion would do nothing but embolden Hamas.
But answering where we are forever depends on others and on causes beyond our control. Simply put, Ayeka can only take us so far – from the past into the present.
Our ancestors, who suffered far worse hardships, would gladly trade places with us. It is specifically during dark and depressing periods that historical perspective is crucial.
In the case of the Trump trial, the Left has done something never done before in American history: put on trial a former president and the opposition political party candidate for president.
When any terrorist movement is permitted to grow until it reaches critical mass, no society can survive what follows.
Sounds to us like a plan for Hamas to survive as a negotiating, enduring presence in Gaza, instead of disappearing as a terrorist group.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Jewish people's right to Jerusalem and the Land of Israel is enshrined in international law.
Professor Derek Penslar of Harvard University wrote a book psychoanalyzing the Jewish people and denigrating Zionist patriotism as just hotheaded, irrational emotionalism.
In Judaism there is also the concept of maris ayin or appearance to the eye which is the prohibition of even giving the impression that one is doing something wrong when it may influence others to sin.
Without rehashing all of the legalities, almost everybody agrees that if his name were not Donald Trump, the former President would never have been prosecuted for the relatively trivial crime of inaccurate business record entries or much less having it ballooned to an astonishing 34 felonies!
How is Jewish identity, safety, and self-esteem affected by this rising tide of wrath that we see today directed at our communities throughout the world?
By Sarah Stern
There is no guarantee of Israel’s security except Israel.
How do we know when antisemitism has become an existential danger? When it becomes a mass movement.
This isn't an Israeli deal or an American deal. It's a deal by Islamic terrorists for Islamic terrorists.
Israel, like Ukraine and Taiwan, is worth fighting for. The citizens of Israel are sacrificing their lives so that we will not have to. The least we can do is get out of the way and be of help. They are heroes. They deserve our gratitude and support.
The overriding question is whether Palestinians can ever accept the reality that land west of the Jordan River, except for the Gaza Strip, is not theirs.
By BESA CENTER
What are the lessons for IDF force build-up following the Hamas attack on October 7 and the Iron Swords War?
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
It is impossible that student radicals will respond to a Trump victory with anything other than catastrophic destruction.
The administration’s effort to stymie military action, coupled with its continued criticism as to how Israel is conducting a just war against a terror group, puts the Jewish state at risk in the region and the world.
As plans for this year’s Celebrate Israel Parade up Fifth Avenue moved full steam ahead despite the challenges – that is, the explosion of open Jew-hatred across New York City and the world – I’ve found myself thinking about this dilemma.
Those numbers matter not only regarding the ability of Israel to raise the money and troops to fight in its defense, but also because Israel’s enemies do not ever have to work hard to obtain a majority in the United Nations and to vote along religious-ethnic lines.
The upcoming Democratic Primary Election for the U.S. Congress will take place in less than a month on June 25. We cannot overemphasize how important these races are.
It will likely be months before any developments – if any. Nor is the plain fact that the court has no real enforcement arm inspiring confidence in the process. Rather it has to rely on actions of individual nations who have joined the court.
Merging with larger non-kosher and non-Glatt programs would not be an option, as the reliability of the Glatt Kosher claim would inevitably be compromised in the eyes of the clients.
By Ruthie Blum
It is unconscionable to cast a shadow on the very conduct that’s being seized upon by ill-wishers to discriminate against the Jewish state.
History with contemporary relevance.
Many years ago, I lived in Gush Katif, for the sake of the entire country recognize that the "withdrawal" experiment failed.
Amal Clooney, yes, wife of George, was one of the three “experts” that advised the ICC to equate Western democracy with Islamic terror.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“What happened on Oct. 7 is pure evil, and can never be forgotten,” said the former ambassador to the United Nations.
What do you think it is?
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Jews are the only people who are attacked for being attacked, and the only people who must constantly defend themselves for defending themselves.
Universities have been morally and intellectually damaging for more than 50 years. How many young people return home after four years at college (let alone additional years in graduate school) a finer, kinder, more moral or intellectually more developed person? Let’s just say it’s rare. I have never met one.
Ironically, research suggests that most people, even most kids, don’t even like social media.
A perverse inversion of victim & victimizer
By Alan Zeitlin
Seinfeld gave an anti-cliché, speech, the antithesis of almost every other which tells people to follow their dreams or passions.
Since kabbalah is centered upon the unification of the entire cosmos, it is holistic and integrated. Events and aspects of our own reality which seem unrelated are jointly impacted by upper worlds and are therefore related.
By JCFA- Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs
The Day After: Victory or Pushback?
The purest of Anti-Semitism, a boycott of the Jewish state is being proposed from a major NY university.
By Our Readers
While the Saudis early on in the process – which began about two years ago – did not insist on Israeli acceptance of the notion of a Palestinian state as a necessary condition, President Biden did.
Time and again, with dozens of videos as evidence, these campus encampments have not merely been places to advocate for a cause but to limit the advocacy of anyone else’s cause.
Ex-diplomats never have to deal with the consequences of their bad advice.
By prioritizing false concerns about civilian casualties in Gaza, a chance to change Palestinian thinking and end the conflict in a more decisive way was lost.
Abbas' comments at the summit have further deepened the division within Palestinian society.
According to the Jerusalem Post, Bowman’s voting record shows a pattern of no votes on resolutions relating to the security of Israel and Jews.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The axiological framework of each era and its repercussions have shown that the Jewish people can never feel safe.
What happened at Haverford College is a case study in how respected liberal institutions are harming Jewish students. They need to be held accountable.
“It seems like the whole world is talking about the red heifers [Para Aduma] except in Israel,” said Moriyah Shapira, a spokeswoman for Ancient Shiloh.
By Ruthie Blum
Languishing in blissful ignorance is no longer an option—or of any interest.
Don’t threaten us with cutting off aid to give up our principles, Begin said. I’m not a Jew with trembling knees. I am a proud Jew with 3,700 years of civilized history...
Keen observers such as Alan Dershowitz assert that these protests are being organized from the outside, with Iran, Qatar, and George Soros among the suspects.
By Sara Lehmann
Israel’s version of 9/11 was far greater in terms of deaths per population than America’s tragedy. However, it went completely belly up in garnering the anticipated support.
The behavior I witnessed, as commonplace as it has become, is unacceptable. One can protest legally, one can have an opinion – but showing a lack of basic decorum is wrong, no matter what you believe.
By JCFA- Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs
During war, as during peace, language and terminology create attitudinal truth.
This warped cultural narrative creates the ludicrous scene of gay people supporting Hamas murderers, even though Hamas terrorists would gladly toss them off a roof and drag their bodies through the street. But to people blinded by intersectionality, facts don’t matter.
The Netzach Education Network has been asked by the Ministry of Education to develop an entire curriculum of Civic Studies, customized to include Charedi values, and this will be shared with 74 state-regulated Charedi elementary schools around Israel.
The realization of our ongoing Jewish solitude, or perhaps a more accurate word is isolation, is a hard one for many if not most Jews to accept.
The lesson of Oct 7 is to stop the nation-building and defeat the terrorists.
By Bassam Tawil
The Palestinians actually owe Israel a huge debt of gratitude for finally driving Hamas out of the Palestinian side of the Rafah border crossing.
By Our Readers
If all of this sounds inconsistent and confusing, it was, especially since even the Biden administration freely concedes that Hamas uses human shields for protection.
By Guy Millière
Biden does not appear ever to have issued the slightest threat, warning or ultimatum to the authors of the war: Hamas, Iran or Qatar.
May HaShem watch over Kol Achainu Bais Yisrael, bring home the hostages, console the bereaved and clear the path for a speedy and complete end to the war.
‘Rabbi,’ he said ‘I am a Christian and I feel that I, too, have had a hand in helping to bring the Children of Israel to the Promised Land. I want to tell my children that I helped a people find a homeland.
Don’t expel just Hamas supporters – expel the neo-Nazi Left.
In the year 2024, we must heed the words of Ze’ev Jabotinsky, “We were not created in order to teach morals and manners to our enemies.”
No American should die to protect Hamas or its supporters in Gaza.
Israel has no choice but to stiffen its spine; and in some matters to grow a spine. More than ever before, Israel must reject impossible international dictates and demands.
It is up to our rising to the moment, to be proud, practicing, moral, ethical, Torah Jews, to demonstrate we are indeed the chosen people.
"I’ve heard from a LOT of reliably anti-Trump people - I mean really, really, anti-Trump people - who have had it with Biden tonight."
Our greatest nightmares as Jews are coming true. It is happening again.
Though Israel in the 1980s was a bit primitive in some ways, I was filled with idealism for the orange groves, and Israeli music, the tourist venues and holy sites that I celebrated every Yom Ha’Atzmaut at school. The transition was pretty seamless, in ways, at the time, I took for granted.
Is the enemy, already inside Israel's gates, also inside the US?
We must not allow our mourning and pain to overshadow the process we are privileged to be part of.
By JCFA- Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs
Jews vote in exceedingly high numbers. In several critical states, the “Jewish vote” might be particularly significant in determining the outcomes.
Surely, they must all understand the reality of the Hamas dynamic, that Hamas (literally) cannot live with anything less than a permanent ceasefire and full Israeli withdrawal for the same reason Israel cannot permit it.
By Alan Zeitlin
There is a video of a UCLA student Eli Tsives who questions a woman who claims to be a professor at UCLA. He does know how to ask, and the woman is so flummoxed she asks for help.
By Our Readers
A No-Brainer-No On Presidential Immunity In your editorial last week (“SCOTUS and Trump Immunity,” May 3), you characterize the issue of whether a former United States president should be immune from criminal prosecution for alleged crimes committed while in office as “momentous.” While the fact that this issue is being accepted for consideration by the […]
I remembered the tragic incidents of mothers accidentally suffocating their young so the rest of the family wouldn’t be discovered. That’s when I realized how lucky we are to have babies crying at semachot all over the Jewish state and beyond.
Needless to say, Schumer created a firestorm and he was roundly criticized for abandoning ship during a crisis and for his unprecedented intrusion into the political affairs of another country, especially with that country being our closest ally in the world.
The New York law is nominally enforced by the NYS Division of Human Rights and the NYS Attorney General and both are authorized to mount investigations and seek preliminary injunctive relief from the courts.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Universities and their students once cared about “light and truth”; they don’t anymore.
September 18, 2026 
