A Passover lesson for Jews who oppose Trump more than antisemitism
Is there such a thing as being too opposed to antisemitism? Can fighting those who call for the genocide of Jews be somehow bad for the Jews? Is it better to let bigotry flourish...
Against racism, for antisemitism: The message of a march in Paris
Thousands of people marched through Paris at the end of March in what was billed as a protest against racism. It was another display of the long-standing alliance between the far left and Islamist...
Who will speak when the last survivors are gone?
As Holocaust survivors pass away, so, too, fades our most powerful defense against hatred: their stories. In a time when antisemitism is rising and historical distortion runs rampant, we must ask ourselves: Who will...
Jewish ambivalence about fighting antisemitism
Jews have long been champions of freedom of speech in the United States, yet they often have not hesitated to advocate canceling speakers who are antisemitic or virulently anti-Israel. Many Jews feel that those...
Western myths about Palestinians vs. what they say and do
Well-meaning liberal Americans sympathize with the Arab-Palestinian cause because of the group’s determined, decades-long struggle against Israel’s superior military might. Recently, that favoritism among Democrats for the first time shifted to a majority who...
Volunteer of the Month: Robin Kaufman, Founder of 4 Paws of Love
Poodles are known for being smart and easily trained dogs, but what makes them even better as therapy dogs is the fact that they don’t shed and leave fur everywhere. These are some of...
Anti-reason in Israel’s defense policy: Addressing the Jihadist threat
“There is something inside us that yearns not for reason, but for mystery…. for whisperings of the irrational.” Karl Jaspers, Reason and Anti-Reason in our Time (1952)
In matters of national security, anti-reason can be as determinative as...
Pesach signifies the joining of the Jewish people
Passover has been described as the “Independence Day of the Jewish People”—the day of our national liberation. It is possible to describe the exodus from Egypt as the moment Jewish peoplehood was founded.
The fact...
A ‘terror’ for Erdoğan
"There is no fear like that of the one who sells out his people." — Nâzım Hikmet
On March 19, the Turkish government under President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan arrested Ekrem Imamoglu, who has been mayor of Istanbul...
Israel needs a new Lebanon strategy
Anti-tank missiles in garages and artillery stashed in children’s bedrooms. Weapons stockpiled in nearly every house. This was what one of us encountered, in village after village in Southern Lebanon, during the October 2024...