Commentary
New Palestinian Islamic Jihad Leader ‘Will Seek to Satisfy Iran’
JNS.org - Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), the second-largest armed terrorist faction in the Gaza Strip, announced at the end of last month that it...
Iran, Assad Regime Using Palestinians to Train Bahraini Terrorists
Palestinian terrorists belonging to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC), the Palestine Liberation Army (PLA), and Hezbollah have trained Bahraini Shiite terrorists in camps near Damascus. Dissident Syrian military officers told...
Conspicuous Irony: Lecturing to a Trump Rally Against ‘Mob Rule’
President Donald Trump and his supporters were largely correct that Judge Brett Kavanaugh had been treated shabbily and without proper regard for due process. Still, this ought not obscure or justify Trump's visceral affections for a mob...
A New Neighborhood in Hebron
The upcoming Torah reading on Shabbat -- Chaye Sarah -- recounts Sarah’s death in “Kiryat Arba, now Hebron.” Abraham, in his grief, approached Ephron the Hittite to purchase a burial place. To assure its indisputable...
Is Canada Knowingly Funding Extremism and Terrorism — Including Through UNRWA?
Canadian taxpayer money may be finding its way to Hamas, a known and documented terrorist...
Billy Rose — and Why We Can’t Write Off ‘Secular’ and Non-Religious Jews
Who was Billy Rose? If you have visited the museum complex in Jerusalem, not far...
Lech Lecha: How Abraham Learned to Speak
In the summer of 1725, a group of hunters near Hamelin, Lower Saxony, spotted a...
Pressure Mounts on New York Times to Cancel Its Iran ‘Journeys’
Pressure is mounting on The New York Times to cancel its money-making trips to Iran. The...
The Problem With B’Tselem
JNS.org - The UN Security Council heard testimony on Thursday about the Israel’s conflict with...
New Palestinian Islamic Jihad Leader ‘Will Seek to Satisfy Iran’
JNS.org - Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), the second-largest armed terrorist faction in the Gaza Strip, announced at the end of last month that it had...
Iran, Assad Regime Using Palestinians to Train Bahraini Terrorists
Palestinian terrorists belonging to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC), the Palestine Liberation Army (PLA), and Hezbollah have trained Bahraini Shiite...
Conspicuous Irony: Lecturing to a Trump Rally Against ‘Mob Rule’
President Donald Trump and his supporters were largely correct that Judge Brett Kavanaugh had been treated shabbily and without proper regard for due process. Still, this ought...
A New Neighborhood in Hebron
The upcoming Torah reading on Shabbat -- Chaye Sarah -- recounts Sarah’s death in “Kiryat Arba, now Hebron.” Abraham, in his grief, approached Ephron the...
Is Canada Knowingly Funding Extremism and Terrorism — Including Through UNRWA?
Canadian taxpayer money may be finding its way to Hamas, a known and documented terrorist group. The Criminal Code of Canada forbids funding terrorism, as...
Billy Rose — and Why We Can’t Write Off ‘Secular’ and Non-Religious Jews
Who was Billy Rose? If you have visited the museum complex in Jerusalem, not far from the Knesset, you will be familiar with the Billy...
Lech Lecha: How Abraham Learned to Speak
In the summer of 1725, a group of hunters near Hamelin, Lower Saxony, spotted a strange looking creature, unlike any animal they had ever seen...
Pressure Mounts on New York Times to Cancel Its Iran ‘Journeys’
Pressure is mounting on The New York Times to cancel its money-making trips to Iran. The “Times Journeys” tours are back in the news after the...
The Problem With B’Tselem
JNS.org - The UN Security Council heard testimony on Thursday about the Israel’s conflict with the Palestinians from B’Tselem. The group, which dubs itself “The...
The Kavanaugh Imbroglio and Jews
Although I am not American, I must confess that I was glued to the screen watching the Kavanaugh hearings in the US Senate. With the hindsight...
We Will Never Understand God’s Motives and Must Learn to Accept It
And God said to Noah: "The end of all flesh has come before Me, for the earth has become full of robbery because of them,...
After Khashoggi, Will US Continue Faustian Bargain With the Saudis?
For decades, many in the United States looked the other way as the Saudis undermined US values and interests. Then the Saudis committed an unpardonable sin that merited the...
How a Bedouin Settlement Can Help Solve the Israeli-Palestinian Dispute
While there is little doubt that the Bedouin settlement of Khan Ahmar on the Jerusalem-Dead Sea road was illegally built, the decision to move its...
Parshat Lech Lecha: Having the Strength to Move Forward Alone
Within the first words that God addresses to the bearer of a new covenant, there are already hints as to the nature of the heroism...
Livni: Netanyahu Government Secretly Wants Hamas to Stay in Power
Saudi Arabia Admits Khashoggi Died in Consulate
Iran, Assad Regime Using Palestinians to Train Bahraini Terrorists
Trump a Reluctant Critic of Saudi Arabia Despite Pressure to Act
New Palestinian Islamic Jihad Leader ‘Will Seek to Satisfy Iran’