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French political candidate agrees photo with Nazi hat ‘in bad taste,’ withdraws

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After an image circulated online of Ludivine Daoudi wearing a Nazi hat, the candidate for office as part of Marine Le Pen’s National Rally party withdrew her candidacy, Politico reported. Daoudi was running for office in Calvados...

A Balanced Vision: Human Singularity, International Law, and American Survival

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Professor Louis Rene Beres l Purdue University The author, Professor Emeritus of International Law at Purdue University, argues that to secure a just and survivable global order, the world must transition from competitive nationalism to...
New York Democratic congressional candidate Dan Goldman participates in the New York City Pride Parade on June 26, 2022. Credit: Ron Adar/Shutterstock.

Anti-Israel candidate loses in New York primary; Nadler gets 16th term, defeating MaloneyIn the...

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Jewish Democrats in New York managed to avoid adding another progressive candidate whose position on Israel and BDS had elicited concerns over the weeks leading up to Tuesday’s primaries. Levi Strauss heir and former federal...
Yael Braun-Privet. Source: Twitter.

France elects Jewish woman speaker of National Assembly

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A Jewish lawyer and mother of five is the newly elected speaker of France’s National Assembly and the first woman to ever hold that position. Yael Braun-Privet, 51, whose grandparents fled Eastern Europe in the 1930s to escape the Nazis,...
Passover seder items. Credit: Phish Photography/Shutterstock.

Freedom isn’t possible without a nation

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It’s the most popular Jewish holiday of the year. Though the fastest-growing and perhaps soon to be the largest sector of American Jewry is the one demographers call “Jews of no religion,” Passover is...
Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D-Mass.) in his office in Washington, D.C. Photo by Dmitry Shapiro.

Rep. Jake Auchincloss: Democrats are ‘big tent party’ that in its totality is pro-Israel

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Pro-Israel organizations have recently been confronting the growing number of candidates for office with decidedly anti-Israel positions, in a very few cases, successfully defeating stalwart pro-Israel incumbent Democrats in primaries. While the growth of anti-Israel...
From left: Israeli Minister of Defense Benny Gantz, Foreign Affairs Minister Yair Lapid, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Israeli Minister of Justice Gideon Sa’ar during a plenum session and a vote on the state budget at the Knesset in Jerusalem on Nov. 3, 2021. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90.

The war to save democracy could kill democracy

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Are Israelis happy with their government? A poll published a few weeks ago by the country’s Channel 12 showed that a plurality preferred the current coalition comprising parties of the right, center, left and one Arab...
Protesters attend a demonstration against vaccines in Belgium. Credit: Alexandros Michailidis/Shutterstock.

Has the time come to bribe the unvaccinated?

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“How can we as a society stand by and watch people die when a simple shot could prevent a life-threatening illness?” That was the agonized question asked by a group of nine health-care providers...

Can Israel’s new government make up with Democrats?

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Like a student on the first day of a new school semester, the slate is clean for new governments seeking to improve relations with other countries. In such circumstances, hope and optimism are the...

Israel unveils composition of new diplomatic-security cabinet

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Three days after its inauguration, Israel’s new government on Wednesday approved the composition of its diplomatic-security cabinet. The government also approved the establishment of a ministerial committee on foreign service appointments. Prime Minister Naftali Bennett...