Remember the six days — and the soldiers — that saved us
y mother said: “No one expected Israel to survive.”
The Straits of Tiran were closed to Israeli ships, strangling the 19-year-old country from its much-needed oil supply. Egypt and Syria had amassed troops on the...
In photos: The story of the liberation of Jerusalem a century ago
On Yom Yerushalayim, which this year falls on May 24, Israel will celebrate the 50th anniversary of Jerusalem’s unification in June 1967. Marking the climax of a swift defensive victory over the armies of...
Conversion: time to end the stigma
Last month, I did something I never thought I’d do — not publicly, anyway. Until recently, I wouldn’t have entertained the idea. But in April, I wrote in the JC about Pesach in the...
Revelation for the resistance
What precisely are we showing up to receive? The debate over the extent of revelation has raged for millennia: Were the ten utterances revealed? Or the five books? Or did Moses simply receive the...
This Jewish holiday is about way more than cheesecake
When the sun sets next Tuesday, the Jewish holiday Shavuot will officially begin and continue until sundown on Wednesday, exactly 50 days since the first Passover seder.
If you only know one thing about Shavuot,...
Democrats, Jewish groups join Trump in protesting Palestinian terror payments
Prominent Democrats and major U.S. Jewish organizations are joining President Donald Trump in calling on the Palestinian Authority (PA) to stop making payments to imprisoned terrorists and their families.
Trump raised the issued during his...
Trump’s titanic foreign-policy shift
(The Washington Post) - This newspaper’s legendary former publisher, Philip Graham, famously described journalism as the business of writing the “first rough draft of history.” This week, as President Donald Trump gave a historic...
The Reality of Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia, kingpin of the Arab League, is still at war with Israel.
The Arab League declared war to decimate the nascent Jewish state in 1948. On May 15, 1948, on the very day that...
Hebron: Fifty years since its liberation
This week not only marks the 50th anniversary of the reunification of Jerusalem, Yom Yerushalayim, but, the next day, the 29th of Iyar, marked the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Hebron, site of...
Jewish languages forgotten in exile
When Mr Harvey Goldstein came to Singapore in 1969, the New York native was surprised to find another Yiddish speaker.
"Somebody from an inner room says, 'Eh, Goldstein, come and see here!' I go in,...