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.
Secretary of State falsely equated “violence in the West Bank, perpetrated by both Palestinians and Israeli settlers.”
One of the most anti-Semitic institutions in the world is the Palestinian Authority.
Although there was close U.S. cooperation with Israel’s investigation into the death of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, the Department of Justice surprised many with an announcement that it was launching its own investigation.
The whole idea that there was anything like collusion happening was later shown to be based on the now-discredited Steele Dossier.
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.
By Israel Hayom
atvian President Egils Levits speaks about his visit to Israel to strengthen security ties against the backdrop of the Ukraine war as his country – and fellow Baltic states Lithuania and Estonia – fear they might be next.
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.
If Jewish nationalism was revived and emigration permitted, national separatism would once again become a national issue.
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.
Kyiv is right to ask that Stalin’s terror famine be recognized as genocide. But it should be equally honest about those who collaborated with Hitler.
By Naomi Kahn
“Another bad idea from two guys who consistently have been wrong on US - Israel policy"
While there are some American Muslims who acknowledge that Israel isn’t going away, they are not willing to say so publicly. This silence, coupled with extremist anti-Israel activism, is contributing to a decline in Jewish safety in the U.S.
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.
NGO-Monitor’s team focused on whether HRWs 217-page report was based on serious research. It wasn't.
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.
By Sara Lehmann
My week in Israel was replete with a range of often contradictory and paradoxical experiences.
I couldn't bring myself to put pen to paper in the wake of that unspeakable tragedy then, so why are these memories flooding me now?
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.
How could it be that people of that ilk broke bread with a former President of the United States responsible for some of the most historic advances of the Jewish people in almost three quarters of a century?
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.
From the onset of the Biden presidency, with Democrats also controlling the Senate and the House, there was much talk about legislating “packing” the Court with Biden picks to create a new left-oriented majority and thereby retake the Court.
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.
A multi-generational broken system
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
I told interlocutors in the Arabian Gulf last weekend that Israel firmly will assert its sovereignty and governance in the face of Israeli Arab and Palestinian lawlessness. That is what most Israelis expect of their new government! At the same time, I assured Israel’s Emirati and Bahraini allies that Israel will do so without racist incitement and delegitimizing rhetoric, and without crude demonstrations of its power, but rather with finely calibrated tools and from an approach of maximum willingness to dialogue. (I hope that I am right….)
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.
Instead of doctors being chosen for their ability to help patients, they're being chosen to make them feel represented.
Without Soviet approval, there would have been no Czech arms sales to the Israelis for the War of Independence
By Hanan Greenwood / Israel Hayom
The elder rabbi of the national religious sector talks about conversions, gay rights, and the states of Israel’s Supreme Court in a no-holds-barred interview.
The great man failed to flee the Nazis until it was almost too late; we shouldn’t make the same mistake.
I was stunned at this sudden change of topic and tone. The warm and cozy shop suddenly seemed cold and threatening.
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.
Reaffirming 4 Centuries of the US-Israel Connection
Remembering 3 Remarkable and Relevant Rabbis
By David Suissa
Because Dave Chappelle plays in the very Jewish playground of comedy, it makes it that much harder to calibrate our response.
It is revealing that the mayor’s stress on crime is cited as a reason Rep. Zeldin came so close to defeating Gov. Hochul in overwhelmingly Democratic New York.
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.
Significantly, the court invalidated major policy initiatives of the largely right-wing and religious Netanyahu-led governments from 2001 to 2021, triggering calls to rein in a court seen as encroaching on the powers of the legislature and the will of the electorate.
By Farley Weiss
Recent events have proven that antisemitism is the only form of hate many Americans are willing to tolerate.
By Alex Traiman
In an interview with JNS, the former secretary of state chides Biden for policies on Israel, calls the FBI probe of Shireen Abu Akleh’s death “political” and says Netanyahu has the right to choose his cabinet ministers “full stop.”
The danger of this approach is obvious – that the app and all the collected data remain under the ownership of a Chinese company which, according to Chinese law, is required to provide this data to the Communist government upon request, at any time.
The Erdogan-Putin bond has two main pillars. One is pragmatism: They both strategically, politically and economically benefit. The other is ideological: They both hate Western civilization.
It is imperative for the new government to move quickly to correct the steady erosion of Jewish rights on the Mount
By Adam Kredo
A 'pervasive and relentless assault on Jewish identity' is occurring daily
By Bennett Ruda
Torah begins with the creation of the world in order to provide the counter-argument against those who would accuse the Jews of "stealing" the Land of Israel: Hebron; Shechem; Jerusalem-All 3 cities established and essential to Jewish history and identity
The Bolsheviks blamed Russian Jewish sympathy for Zionism and the Balfour Declaration for the decline in their own socio-political and economic system
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Israel-haters may not like it, but everyone, at some point, was a settler.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Offering absolution in exchange for checks made out to organizations that “fight hate” is worth laughing at.
Was there, for the first time in California history, some outbreak of doctors “misinforming” their patients about medical matters, thereby causing them harm?
By Ariel Kahana
The "Red Wave" that everyone thought would bring back the man with the red hat ended in barely a splash.
By Barry Katz
Most yeshivas have standards. For the sake of brevity, we will use as an example the policy that all electronic devices in and out of the home must have filters. Yet parents who don’t follow these policies often decide that they want to send their children to such a school.
The pathetic punishment meted out to a Bedouin who sodomized a little girl in her Negev home helps explain the advent of the country’s new “full, full, right-wing” government.
Most Israeli Jews know which is which, while most American Jews do not.
How do we balance a society grounded in values of emet, shalom, and tochacha? How do we promote truth and peace while encouraging dialogue?
By JCFA- Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs
Antisemitism on Ivy League campuses is worse and more overt today than ever
By Guest Author
Turning your back on Israel because you don’t like the results of one election harms everyone.
By Yehudit Katsover and Nadia Matar
Both you and Benjamin Netanyahu are under enormous pressure from the American administration and from the Left at the same time and the media who all are having difficulty internalizing the verdict of Israeli democracy...
As in the Dreyfus affair, there are no Jewish criminals here, and everyone knows it. The Biden administration has ordered the FBI probe into Shireen Abu Akleh’s death because it wants a crisis with Israel.
Zelenskyy’s two-faced stand illustrates both his own hypocrisy and how the world body acts as a toxic cesspool of hate.
By Avi Ciment
A large number of our children are ignoring mitzvot such as Shabbos, kashrut and tefillin.
Sadly, this sort of animus toward Israel is routine at the UN; but what stood out this time was Ukraine’s unexpected vote in favor of the resolution against Israel.
Condemnations from the organizational American Jewish establishment lacked the intensity of outrage over the recent wave of cultural antisemitism from black celebrities.
Sadly, it does not look as if the Palestinians are coming any closer to freedom of speech or freedom of assembly -- unless it is to denounce Israel.
While this was to be expected of America’s Jewish officialdom, for whom a wait-and-see, honeymoon period was out of the question, what was unexpected (and, frankly, alarming) was the reaction to the election results from the Biden administration.
By Gil Troy
America’s small Jewish community endures nearly two-thirds of all anti-religious hate crimes annually.