Netta beats ‘nakba’
The results of the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest and the reactions to it were as disturbing to foreign Israel-haters as they were to some of the nation’s most fervent domestic critics. At a time...
The Judeo-Amazigh Substratum of the Moroccan Culture
A Moroccan old gate to lasting tolerance
One of the most unique countries in Northern Africa and the Middle East is, undoubtedly, Morocco, not simply because of its many different coexisting identities and cultural roots,...
Milbank: Trump’s weak response to racism unites Jews, blacks
President Trump has united us, after all.
He brought together the Rev. Al Sharpton and the Jews.
This modern-day miracle was on display Monday, at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial on the Mall, 54 years...
Politics and coronavirus in Israel
It’s been two weeks since the election, and just now the President has interviewed party heads, and selected Benny Gantz to have the first chance at forming a coalition.
Earlier signs of a minority government...
Twin perils for Israel: Iranian nuclear weapons and “Palestine”
"I think, therefore I am." - René Descartes, Discourse on Method
Although difficult to calibrate or measure, Iranian nuclearization and Palestinian statehood are likely progressing at roughly the same pace. To be sure, this coincident...
A Message from the Jewish Federation of Broward County on Marjory Stoneman Douglas High...
Alyssa Alhadeff, age 14; Scott Beigel, age 35; Martin Duque, age 14; Nicholas Dworet, age 17; Aaron Feis, age 37; Jaime Guttenberg, age 14; Christopher Hixon, age 49; Luke Hoyer, age 15; Cara Loughran,...
Don’t think a ‘reality czar’ would spare Israel and the Jews
It’s easy to scoff at some of the latest ideas being floated in some prestigious quarters for new limits on freedom of expression. But at a time when Big Tech companies are flexing their...
The ‘peace plan’ is coming
A new Middle East “peace plan” is gestating and, according to the Trump administration itself, nearly ready to hatch.
It is easy to be cynical. Peace plans have been produced by various administrations and yet,...
BDS has successes, but not so for P.A. and Gaza
From the looks and sounds of BDS it would seem that Palestine is on the verge of something big.
BDS prevails on a number of campuses, often with Jews as well as Palestinians and others...
Is J Street U attempting to ‘hijack’ the Birthright experience?
When Taylor King boarded the airplane in 2012, she was a newly minted college graduate who, like most of her fellow Birthright Israel travelers, had never been to Israel.
“I didn’t really know what Israel...