Yearly Archives: 2023

Staci Blumenfeld is deeply curious about Judaism. She finally got to dig in over the past six weeks. “I have long had the desire to understand who I am, where my ancestors come from, the...

“Palestinians Must Have Hope for a Brighter Future,” urges a New York Times headline. It tops a Thanksgiving Day opinion piece authored by U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont. Hope for what? To kill more Jews? What...

 “An immortal person is a contradiction in terms.” Emmanuel Levinas, God, Death and Time (2000) EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Israel’s security policy decision-makers must take into account the desire of Israel’s terrorist adversaries to achieve immortality through violence. Israel must be...

Hamas's Oct. 7 slaughter was "just a rehearsal," the Islamist group's leader in Gaza Yahya Sinwar threatened on Thursday, in his first public statement since the terrorist organization massacred more than a thousand people...

Israel is carrying out a "genocide" and "cannot claim the right to self-defense," Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas claimed in a statement issued on Wednesday, as a Biden administration official credited Ramallah for keeping...

The agonizing dilemmas faced by Israel’s leaders in dealing with Hamas’s evil manipulation of infants and the elderly are by now well known. Military and strategic analyses of the war against Hamas are widespread,...

According to Israel’s Defense Ministry, 2,005 soldiers have been injured since Oct. 7, the first such figures have been released since the war began. The announcement coincided with the annual National Day of Appreciation for...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hosted U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken at his office in Jerusalem on Thursday afternoon. It is the fourth time the top U.S. diplomat has visited the Jewish state since the war...

The hostage-release list received by the Israeli government for Thursday includes 10 women and children, including two dual-citizen Russian nationals. The terrorist group will also reportedly release the bodies of three hostages. Previous statements by the...

The U.S. House of Representatives voted 412-1, with one voting “present,” on Nov. 28 to reaffirm Israel’s right to exist. “The House of Representatives reaffirms the State of Israel’s right to exist, recognizes that denying Israel’s right...