As families across Israel gather on Monday will around holiday tables laden with honey, pomegranates, apples, dates and delicacies from every tradition to celebrate Rosh Hashana, two contradictory emotions will be present. Some will sit down…
Category: 7. Opinion
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Yes, Western leaders are rewarding terrorism by recognizing Palestinian state
Support for a two-state solution is not antisemitic. Even Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and many Israelis—once more than 50%, now fewer—backed that arrangement. It is worth remembering that it was the Arabs who rejected partition in 1937…Continue Reading
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How Hollywood Jews betray their own
Earlier this week, Hannah Einbinder took the stage at the Emmy Awards ceremony, and in that moment she revealed not glamour, not courage, not artistry — but the dangerous ignorance of a generation. Her performance was not just another…Continue Reading
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Peace cannot be built on terror
Today, Canada, Australia, and the UK announced their recognition of a Palestinian state. This is not a routine diplomatic gesture. It is a betrayal of Israel by some of its closest allies, and more importantly, it is a failure and mistake of the…
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How the UN’s genocide accusation against Israel twists justice
Eighty years after the Holocaust, when six million Jews were murdered while the world watched, including my sister and most of my mother’s family, the United Nations has released a report accusing the Jewish state of committing genocide, and…
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Israel braces for UN showdown as powers push Palestinian recognition
Analysis: Israel faces growing diplomatic pressure nearly a dozen countries, including France, Britain and Canada, prepare to recognize Palestinian state; Netanyahu weighing options with Trump, from symbolic moves to harsher steps, while balancing…
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‘Beit Tefillah Le’kol Ha’Amim’: A house of prayer for all the nations
Rosh Hashanah is Yom Harat Olam, the birthday of the world.
Not just of the Jewish people, but of all humanity.
On this day, Am Yisrael gathers in every corner of the earth to declare a vision that is nothing less than revolutionary: “Ki beiti…
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Doctors Without Borders: Saving lives, spinning narratives
Stephen M. Flatowis President of the Religious Zionists of America (RZA) He is the father of Alisa Flatow, who was murdered in an Iranian-sponsored Palestinian terrorist attack in 1995 and the author of A Father’s Story: My Fight for Justice…
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And what about antisemitism on the Christian Right?
Matthew M. Hausman is a trial attorney and writer who lives and works in Connecticut. A former journalist, Mr. Hausman continues to write on a variety of topics, including science, health and medicine, Jewish issues and foreign affairs, and has…
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Wine is Israel’s answer to economic isolation
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu finally admitted it: Israel is economically isolated. He dressed it up in talk of “self-reliance,” but let’s not kid ourselves. What it means is sanctions chatter, investors holding back, tourism gutted and…Continue Reading