Alex Traiman /JNS.org
ARTICLES BY: Alex Traiman /JNS.org
The Chabad Model for Perpetuating Memories of the Holocaust
JNS.org - Within the next several years, Holocaust remembrance will enter into a challenging new phase: continuing the memory of one of the most heinous...
March of the Living Transcends Distinctions to Provide a Deeply Meaningful Jewish Experience
JNS.org - There are no words for the experience of commemorating the horrific deaths, together with Holocaust survivors, on the sacred grounds of the Birkenau extermination...
How an Electoral Tie Represents a Landslide Victory for Israel’s Right
JNS.org - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu won a decisive electoral victory at the polls despite tying with main rival Benny Gantz, former chief of...
‘Settling the Score’ with Terrorists Won’t Prevent Subsequent Attacks
JNS.org - On the last night of Hanukkah, a Palestinian terrorist wounded seven in a drive-by shooting at a bus stop outside the large Jewish...
Public Charter Schools Put Benefits of Teaching Hebrew to the Test
JNS.org - Now in its ninth year, the Hebrew Public network of 13 charter schools utilizes a blend of startup philanthropic funding and state funds...
Go Home, Lara Alqasem!
JNS.org - The entry ban of Lara Alqasem, who served as university president of Students for Justice in Palestine when she was an undergraduate student...
The Forces Behind US and Israeli Bills to Withhold Pay-to-Slay Terror Financing
JNS.org - The passage of an Israeli law to withhold funds that the Palestinian Authority (PA) uses to pay terrorists for killing Jews is the correction of...
Constructive Dialogue Remains Critical to Moving American Zionism Forward
JNS.org -- For Israelis, Zionism is part and parcel of the national experience, regardless of religious or political affiliation. Yet in America, where Judaism has been...
Will Israel Pass a Law to Offset ‘Pay-to-Slay’ Stipends to Jailed Palestinian Terrorists?
JNS.org - Knesset members are currently advancing competing laws to serve as the equivalent to America’s Taylor Force Act, which sanctions the Palestinian Authority (PA)’s “pay-to-slay” policy...
And The Award for Best Performance Goes to…Natalie Portman
JNS.org – And the award for best performance by a non-supporting actor goes to ... Natalie Portman. In a 70th-anniversary present to the State of Israel, Portman...
Israeli Security Cabinet Member Warns of Further Iranian Aggression in the Mideast
JNS.org - For years, Israel has been grappling with a new reality in the Middle East in which Iran has increasingly emerged as an ambitious and aggressive...
Upcoming Address by Jimmy Carter at Liberty U. Raises Concern Among Christian Israel Supporters
JNS.org – Just days after US President Donald Trump is scheduled to inaugurate America’s embassy to Israel in Jerusalem on May 14, a former president with...
Israeli Supreme Court Turnover: A ‘Win-Win’ for the Public and for Policy
JNS.org - Rising political star Ayelet Shaked just confirmed the fifth and sixth Israeli Supreme Court justices in her short tenure as justice minister. In a historical...
On AIPAC Sidelines, Israeli Ministers Express Support for Settlements
JNS.org - On the margins of the AIPAC policy conference in Washington, D.C., more than 300 conference attendees gathered at the prestigious Sixth & I Historic...
NYU Convocation Speaker Calls for BDS Against ‘Apartheid Government’ in Israel
UCLA Student Gov’t Passes Resolution Defending SJP From Antisemitism Claims
Palestinians Have No Historical Connection to Tel Aviv
‘Zionists’ Writing White House Speeches on Iran ‘Word for Word,’ Rouhani Alleges
Swedish PM to Meet His Party’s Youth Wing Over ‘Crush Zionism’ Chant