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The former “Fox News” star took many questionable stands. But those who rightly see woke DEI ideology as a threat to Jewish life aren’t cheering his ouster.
Declared Chaim Weizmann, “and I thought I heard the steps of the Messiah.”
Israel’s future depends more on repairing a modicum of national unity and even global Jewish accord than it does on countering Iran
She spoke about being “independently dependent” and was always able to describe eloquently the best way we could help her, whether physically or otherwise.
For various reasons, overwhelmingly, religious people endorse judicial reform, whereas secular Israel generally opposes it.
Never before had delegates been forced to vote on whether the WZO should condemn the Israeli government in its various platforms...
It was quite clear that from the start, Prime Minister Netanyahu sensed the scale of the trouble and tried to proceed with caution.
The real story here is how the band of 51 came together to issue their letter. One of the signatories, Michael Morell – a former Deputy Director of the CIA – spilled the beans in recent sworn Congressional testimony.
By Marc Gronich
For some observant Jews, organic burial brings back memories of darker days of 1940s Europe.
Rather than dissecting Israel’s democracy and fixating on an issue centering around the Israeli form of government, the international community should engage in an open and honest conversation about the barbaric and brazen terrorist attacks that are killing Israeli civilians.
The glow of the Abraham Accords – which not too long ago showed promise of a new Middle East in which Israel’s military, economic, agricultural, and technological achievements would draw neighbors eager to get in on the action to its side – seems to have dimmed.
On the 75th Yom Haatzmaut, focus on the brilliance bursting forth from the nation of Israel in realms galore.
By Danny Danon
This Remembrance Day, we will stand united as one grieving people.
By Israel Hayom
Memorial Day creates a deep connection between the personal and the national. This year, precisely because of the ongoing domestic ...
Hizbullah, like Iran’s Supreme Leader, thinks Israel is on its last legs
Baruch Ben-Yigal's story is a perfect metaphor for the indelible link between death and rebirth that is Israel's curse and blessing.
Hamas is an enemy, but it is a much weaker enemy than Iran, which is determined to go ahead and develop a nuclear weapon with the sole objective of destroying Israel.
We should be fighting the antisemites, not a lifelong friend and defender of the Jewish people.
EU and Germany refuse to ban terrorist NGO Samidoun
By BESA CENTER
The agreement between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia suggests that Saudi Arabia is steering away from its course of rapprochement with Israel and cuddling up to the ayatollahs, thereby eroding Israel’s geostrategic position in the Middle East. But the widespread assessment of this development as entirely bad for Israel is short-sighted.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
I am eternally grateful to the Jews who provided me with comfort and nurturing while my husband underwent his transplant.
As the debate about Netanyahu and judicial reform heats up, the umbrella group of Jewish Federations is showing less restraint about intervening in Israeli politics. That’s a mistake.
Having linked the future of Zionism to British rule and prejudice, the Zionists had to take the lead to ensure their numbers would increase and their efforts would succeed.
Jerusalem's International Challenges
Since surrendering to aggression is not the way, we must combine two forces: on the one hand, we must get out and demonstrate until the reform is implemented and the justice system is fixed, and on the other hand, we must meet with our neighbors and our social network acquaintances.
The fact that the Chinese can pull off a diplomatic coup involving a country that was formerly a key ally of the US serves as a devastating indictment of the Biden administration's incompetence.
By Avi Kumar
Jewish parallels abound in the show that just finished its third season.
If heaven had a unique smell, it would be the incredible smell of Mom’s chocolate chip cookies baking in the oven. And if I had to choose between heaven and Mom’s cookies, Mom’s cookies would win hands down.
An overwhelming majority of American people reportedly do not trust President Joe Biden on Iran's nuclear deal.
In other words, other countries imported 41 times the number of black slaves into the Western Hemisphere compared to the United States.
The Left's opposition to police and the justice system ushered in this nightmare.
Our journey hasn’t always comfortable, and these iconic months have been a microcosm of our convoluted journey.
By Bassam Tawil
The full responsibility for the latest tensions between Israel and the Palestinians lies solely on the Muslims who hijacked Ramadan, evidently to incite violence and spew hatred against Israel and Jews.
China bought D.C., but it forgot to buy Montana.
The attack on Justice Thomas seems to us like just the latest salvo in the progressive Left’s continuing effort to course-correct the Supreme Court’s rightward leanings, this time by forcing its most Conservative member off the Court before his time.
Often individuals have good Jewish knowledge without the pedagogical skills, while many other teachers have the pedagogical ability and experience, but not the Jewish knowledge.
The Palestinian human rights abuses and the crackdown on political activists and journalists are ignored not only by the UN, but also by the Biden administration.
The Finns were apparently bent on preventing the illegal immigration of Russians seeking to avoid the mobilization for military service in the war in Ukraine.
The biased reactions of U.N. officials and corporate media to attacks on Israelis as well as to disputes over Jerusalem’s Temple Mount are rooted in leftist lies about Zionism.
By Ben Cohen
The energy and the intensity shown by the 700 poorly armed young Jewish fighters reflected the understanding, deep in their hearts, that the battle for the ghetto was not ultimately one in which they would prevail.
By Justin Amler
Yom HaShoah is not only about the past. It’s about the present. And it’s about the future.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
This Holocaust Remembrance Day, let us celebrate Jewish resistance.
Museums, archives of testimonies and educational efforts preserved the survivors’ legacy. Still, that won’t counter contemporary antisemitic hatred and disinformation.
The late Menachem Begin always said that Israeli officials should never condemn Israel when traveling abroad.
By Barry Shaw
Let's hear less vacuous talk of "both sides must do more to reduce tensions" and hear more about governments withdrawing ...
Achieving real peace with the Palestinian Arabs is so remote, not because of settlements or borders. It has everything to do with the widespread and deeply held attitudes that permeate the Palestinian Arab community.
Seeking to avoid a multi-front war, Israel pursues a policy of containment that erodes its deterrence, bringing such a war closer but under much worse conditions
If the Israeli public wants to survive, it must prepare—mentally and physically—for war with the Iranian octopus.
A call to reconsider investing in Israel because of judicial reform isn’t the same as BDS. Yet that distinction is meaningless since it still validates anti-Zionist lies.
Both by the law of G-d and man
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The 15-year-old “had a special love for the land.”
A comprehensive picture of Iranian belligerence and its tectonic threat to Mideast and global stability.
It’s deeply disturbing, but profoundly necessary, to reflect on the specific circumstances of the attack because of what they can teach us.
This Jewish holiday is an appropriate time for good people of all faiths to contemplate the rise of religious hatred here and around the world and then to pledge ourselves to confronting it wherever and whenever we find it.
Shabbat Chol Hamoed Pesach was a davening challenge I never experienced before, one I didn't think I would be able to overcome.
By Bassam Tawil
In the eyes of Shtayyeh and many Palestinians, all Jews living between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea are "colonizers" and "settlers." These Palestinians see no difference between a Jew living in a Jewish community in the West Bank and a Jew living in Tel Aviv or Jerusalem. For them, all Jews are foreigners who have no connection whatsoever to Israel and Jewish holy sites and no right ever to live there. Period.
Going forward, however, Bragg would have to persuade a jury that what Trump had in mind was concealment of a particular crime or crimes.
Israel as a Jewish state was justified at the time of independence…, and its preservation continues to be justified today.
By Dror Eydar
If we really want to rule, we should draw inspiration from the eternal sources of our nation and learn from the wisdom of the generations not to repeat mistakes, even if the cost is temporary retreat. The correction will come. Patience.
Few take the President seriously on this score, however, especially since the Iranians were forced into the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action in 2015 under threat of military intervention.
The decision by judicial reform opponents to invite, indeed to plead for, U.S. intervention in this complex and fateful internal contest damages Israeli sovereignty and self-government.
By Sara Lehmann
Nathan Lewin, Esq. is a household name synonymous with legal scholarship for more than 55 years. Consistently listed among the “Best Lawyers in America”, Lewin is a champion for civil liberties and has argued 28 cases before the United States Supreme Court. Many of those cases represent Jewish causes, and Lewin’s achievements and advocacy in […]
Israel is at war on multiple fronts. Only, it doesn’t seem to know. Israel has been at war for over 100 years. Only, it seems to want to forget.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The notion that a declining power like Russia, which has domestic problems, a shrinking economy, a shrinking demographic base, is somehow a bigger threat than China is laughable.
The US president is neighing about Israeli democracy and stiffing Netanyahu to counter Israel’s insistence on acting against Iran.
By dvora
A partial nuclear agreement, even a broad one, will buy the world only a few weeks, or maybe months.
By Bassam Tawil
The current US anti-Netanyahu approach will do nothing except empower Iran and its proxies, Hamas, PIJ and Hezbollah in Lebanon, and incentivize them to carry out more terror attacks – not only against Israelis, but against Americans as well.
By Nathan Lewin
A tale of two policies: The religious rights denied to Jews by Yale in 1998 have now been granted to Muslims in 2023.
The current U.S. administration does not want to be forced to either criticize the Palestinian Authority, something it is loath to do.
Why should human voices hold such authority in a halachic system which answers to Hashem?
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Israel is the creator of its destiny; the White House is not.
By Alex Traiman
The protest organizers are doing irreparable harm to the state, its institutions and its economy, in a classic “cutting off your nose to spite your face” campaign.
“Behold, I accept upon myself the commandment of the Lord to love my neighbor as myself.”
1. The Passover Exodus, in general, and the Mosaic legacy, in particular, inspired the US Founding Fathers' rebellion against the monarchy, which evolved into a concept of non-revengeful, non-imperialistic and anti-monarchy liberty, limited (non-tyrannical) government, separation of powers among three co-equal branches of government and the Federalist system, in general. The goal of Passover’s liberty […]
Certainly he can never match his oldest brother's brilliance, and although sometimes he thinks that his second brother makes some good points, he is afraid of disappointing his parents; he is afraid of disappointing himself.
By Keshet Starr
Halachic Prenuptial Agreements are yet another critical vehicle for social change. Signing a prenup not only protects the individual couple involved but also helps cement a larger cultural message – that get refusal is not welcome here, in this home, in this shul,
To be sure, it is not at all clear how deep the Saudi/Iran agreement will cut. The two countries have long been rivals for leadership in the Gulf region and have been indirectly at each other’s throats for years in several devastating proxy wars.
Did the Manhattan DA here succumb to the progressive mantra as he did in his emasculating of workaday law enforcement in Manhattan?
The protests have nothing to do with judicial reform and everything to do with undoing the results of the last election.
On Pesach, we celebrate the gift of political freedom. And we recognize that more than just a natural right, it is a Divine gift, and one that we would be lost without.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The president’s attack on Benjamin Netanyahu is all about revenge.
More than 3,000 years before the Mayflower left England for the New World, Jews fled from Egypt.
By Alex Traiman
While the Israeli left has had no choice but to concede the government to a voter base shifting to the right, it is unprepared and unwilling to give up control of state institutions.
Those who fought back against the Nazis were able to obtain guns from criminal sources and from contacts in the Polish resistance Home Army.
Today’s version of slavery may be different, but the impact is the same. With our technological advancement, we currently live in the most physically comfortable time in human history. However, we also live with a kind of mental slavery imposed by none other than ourselves.
This is what national suicide looks like.
In religious terminology how do we balance between torah, peoplehood and land? Or, in Hebrew how do we balance between Torat Yisrael, Am Yisrael and Eretz Yisrael.
They seem to believe that such tactics are patriotic acts of democracy – but only when engaged in by the Left.
Conservatives have no issue with change or innovation – when warranted or harmless.
A village for Muslim terrorists vs. a village for Israeli Jews.
At this time the Supreme Court can freely invalidate legislation passed by the Knesset or decisions of the prime minister or administrative agencies it believes to be unreasonable.
November 6, 2026 
