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Before the arguments begin, before the explanations arrive, before the debates over language and intent, it is worth confronting a simple and disturbing fact.

Synagogues are burning.

Over the past fifteen months, Jewish houses of worship have…

On 27th January, countless people around the world paused to remember the six million Jews who were murdered during the Holocaust. The theme for this year’s Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD)was ‘Bridging Generations’ which, against the…

Over the past year, Israel Bonds have quietly become a new pressure point in the broader campaign to push public institutions to distance themselves from Israel.

For decades, Israel Bonds functioned as a largely nonpartisan financial…

In his campaign to unseat the Bronx’s pro-Israel congressman, Ritchie Torres, political organizer Jose Vega has referred to the New York City borough as “Gaza West.” 

In both Gaza and the Bronx, he’s said, young…

Mundek Lukawiecki’s son, Simon, knew nothing about his father’s past until he was an adult. A survivor of the Holocaust in Poland, Lukawiecki did not talk about that horrendous period and acted as if the mass murder of Polish Jews had…

What did you do on International Holocaust remembrance day? The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum did this: suck up to Trump by excoriating Tim Walz for remembering Anne Frank. We Jews are easily manipulated, and have been jumping on…

This shabbat is named Shabbat Shira, for shirat hayam, the song of the sea, the moment in the book of Shemot where the sea splits and – az yashir Moshe – Moshe leads Bnei Yisrael in a song of hallel (praise) and hoda’a (gratitude). The…

Standing in the halls of Westchester Hebrew High School, my alma mater, I watched something remarkable unfold. High school students, some barely old enough to vote, were learning to wield what might be the most powerful weapon in the fight…

A Final Warning to Western Politicians:
Stop Legitimizing Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK/MKO/NCRI). Stop Speaking Over Iranians.

Iranians are united on one point: the Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK/MKO/NCRI) does not represent them. It never has. Inside Iran,…

Donald Trump never wanted Greenland the way critics pretended he did. He wanted what serious powers have always wanted: control without conquest. The noise about “buying” Greenland was never literal—it was leverage. Just like the Panama…