Where we’ve been, and why it matters
The collapse of the Bashar Assad regime in Syria over the weekend sent me back to the Jewish Policy Center archive.
Incoming President Donald Trump is correct—who governs Damascus and its environs is not a choice...
Harvard’s chaplain slanders Israel
Alexander (“Shabbos”) Kestenbaum, the Jewish student activist at Harvard University who gained national prominence for speaking at the Republican convention in July, recently shared how the chaplains at Harvard are falling Jewish students.
On Nov....
Syria’s current conflict and its implications for Israel
The evolving situation in Syria demands scrutiny, especially regarding its repercussions for Israel’s security and the stability of the broader Middle East. Syria has become a focal point for the intensifying Sunni-Shi'ite struggle, a...
Trump voices the moral clarity on hostages the world needed
We don’t know yet what impact President-elect Donald Trump’s bombshell statement about the fate of the Israeli hostages still held by Hamas will be. But in one post on his Truth Social site, he neatly summarized...
Israel’s gift
Do you recall the Cedar Revolution?
Almost 20 years ago, the Lebanese rose against Syria’s domination of their country, including an occupation force of roughly 14,000 Syrian troops and a government that was all too...
Should your child with special needs go to Israel for the year?
I remember the first time a student with special needs told me she wanted to study in Israel after high school. It was 24 years ago, and I was running a program for teens...
A 60-day ceasefire
Let’s be clear about why Israel signed onto this ceasefire. There are three reasons:
1. Joe Biden has been slow-walking aid to Israel. That slow-walking has gotten Israeli troops killed. The ceasefire is designed to...
America’s future depends on Trump’s promise to punish woke universities
Occidental College seemingly waved the white flag last week in its efforts to defend itself against charges of tolerating antisemitism on its Los Angeles campus. The school agreed to a “sweeping settlement” with the Anti-Defamation League...
First military rabbi killed in combat since Yom Kippur War
Hearing that Rabbi Avi Goldberg was killed shook me up a bit more than usual, though I did not know him. Somehow, it’s different when you share the same last name, even if we’re...
Israel faces an uncertain path in the wake of the ICC arrest warrants
For the past several months Israel has been fighting on multiple fronts, however, one of the war's most critical theaters has increasingly been not Lebanon or Gaza, but The Hague. Anti-Israel activists have been...