Israeli democracy is still not in danger
As Israel heads to its fourth Knesset election in two years on March 23, polls show that the outcome is very much in doubt. Neither Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu nor any of his rivals...
Searching for new ways to fund a terrorist regime
Question: How do you get the American government to finance a terrorist regime when U.S. law prevents it from doing so?
Answer: Twist the meaning of words, claim that the law doesn’t say what it...
Impossible to say who’ll win Israel’s upcoming election
Where are we now?
Who knows?
Indications of infections are down. The parties and religious events at Purim do not seem to have produced an increase. Widespread inoculations are the explanation. They work to prevent a...
New decrees by Abbas restrict Palestinian civil society
Two presidential decrees recently issued by Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas aroused intense criticism in the P.A. The first, issued on March 2, imposes severe restrictions on the activity and finances of Palestinian civil...
Our German-made Passover seder plates
Storytelling is a central feature of the Passover holiday. The imperative for Jews to retell our history assures that our children will never forget it.
During the Holocaust, traditional Passover seder texts were handwritten in...
South Africa’s chief justice confronts the apartheid analogy
As of this writing, South Africa’s Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng was on day seven of a 10-day deadline to publicly apologize for a speech he made last year in which he offered a full-throated...
Moral Purity In An Overly Pure World
When we say that something or someone is pure, we are saying that within a certain category of being, they are consistently of one nature and have no other added components, elements or aspects. ...
With New COVID Critique, How Would Palestinian Leaders Govern Their Own State?
The Palestinian leadership is supplying SNL’s Michael Che with unexpected material for his Covid-19 vaccine punchlines.
The Palestinian Authority, which administers limited public services in Israel’s territories, is now accused by its own people of...
Is bipartisanship on Iran a lost cause?
On its face, it seems like very good news. A pair of gestures—a letter from members of the House of Representatives and a resolution introduced in the chamber—aimed at restoring a vestige of bipartisanship...
Proof that China is using Covid-19 to overtake the US
What is the source of the coronavirus that has wreaked havoc on the world? Most people today would agree that the source was China. But controversy exists and will continue to exist about how...