Daily Archives: December 19, 2018

There can never be any greater form of power in world politics than power over death. Paradoxically, this pre-eminent form of power is almost entirely unrecognized by both scholars and policymakers. The principal result is that...

I would like to share with you my reflections on the tremendously tumultuous period that my family and I experienced this past week. It was marked by the two extremes of the death of...

It sounds outrageous. A speech pathologist in a Texas school district was asked to sign a pro-Israel pledge. If she refused to go along, she would lose her job. Described in that way, the...

B’nai B’rith presented outgoing U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley with its Award for Excellence in Diplomacy. The award was given to her at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations in New...

Despite an increased public outcry and international condemnation for the practice, the Palestinian Authority has allocated more than $319 million as “pay to slay” salaries for Arabs convicted of attacking Israeli Jews in 2018,...

Since Avigdor Lieberman’s resignation as Defense Minister and Yisrael Beytenu’s departure from the government in mid-November, the ruling coalition led by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu now has just 61 Knesset members out of...

Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas would apparently lose to the head of Hamas were Palestinian elections held on Tuesday, according to a survey. Administered by pollster Khalil Shikaki, Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh would be expected to...

The Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi of Jerusalem, Aryeh Stern, issued an unprecedented halachic ruling that Israel has an obligation to help free Palestinians who have been imprisoned for selling land to Jews. In a letter sent to Lt....

Lt. “Yod” will officially become the Israeli Air Force’s first pilot of Ethiopian heritage when he completes the elite pilots’ course on Wednesday. The new pilot’s name could not be released, due to security concerns. As...

 Israel voted in favor of a U.N. General Assembly resolution on Monday condemning the Russian occupation of Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula. The resolution calls on Russia to withdraw armed forces from what the signers call “temporarily...