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Is Ruth Calderon unfit to head the Jewish Agency?

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When Israel embarked on “Operation Guardian of the Walls” following massive rocket fire from Hamas in the Gaza Strip in May, the country needed national unity. Then-Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu received full support for the...
Kingsborough Community College, part of the City University of New York system, in Brooklyn, N.Y. Credit: Kingsborough Community College.

Inside Kingsborough College’s systematic failure to protect pro-Israel Orthodox faculty, students

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Professor Jeff Lax says that in his 17 years working at Kingsborough Community College in Brooklyn, N.Y, one of his worst days was one he never expected. He said he was blocked from leaving a...
A gate at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Credit: Hanson L./Shutterstock.

USC outlines concrete steps to respond to campus anti-Semitism

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After receiving criticism for what some Jewish members of the University of Southern California Jewish community have called an insufficient response to anti-Semitism on campus over the last few years, the university announced on...
Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion speaking in the Knesset on Jan, 1, 1957. Credit: National Photo Archive via Wikimedia Commons.

Historic scroll found at Ben-Gurion House ‘shines with the Zionist story’

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A scroll presented to Israel’s first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, during a tree-planting ceremony in 1949 was recently found at Ben-Gurion House in Tel Aviv. The scroll was presented to Ben-Gurion by students at the...
A Bahraini man chats with an Israeli at Jerusalem's Machane Yehuda outdoor market, October 2021. Photo by Josh Hasten.

The emergence of Arab Zionism?

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While Western liberals and the U.N. Human Rights Council double down in their determination to demonize, delegitimize and destroy Israel, support for that beleaguered country is coming from a surprising direction. In 2020, people were...
Businessman Elisha Wiesel, the son of Holocaust survivor, human-rights activist and Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel, speaking at the Washington National Cathedral on Oct. 12, 2021 Source: Screenshot.

Honoring his father’s story, Elisha Wiesel sees fighting anti-Semitism inextricably linked to Zionism

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The late Holocaust survivor, human-rights activist and Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel became the first modern Jew to have a bust of his face sculpted into the stonework of the Washington National Cathedral’s Human Rights...
Effi Eitam speaks during the Gush Katif conference at the Tel Aviv Museum on March 23, 2017. Photo by Yossi Zeliger/Flash90.

‘Allowing Arab Israelis into the government is equivalent to losing a war’

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Effi Eitam cannot seem to stop fighting. At 69, the retired brigadier general says he is now waging war to save his home or, as he puts it, “A war against the mighty forces...
Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin delivers an address at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland upon his arrival in the United States for a state visit, Jan. 1, 1978. Credit: USAF

The inspirational life of Menachem Begin

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Winston Churchill once wrote, “The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to go.” I thought of those words recently after watching “Upheaval,” a new documentary film produced by the Hidden...
From left: Brig. Gen. (res.) Amir Avivi, director of Habithonistim; Irit Linur, Israel Hayom columnist; Shabtai Bandat, Peace Now activist; and Jackie Levi, moderator and Israel Hayom columnist. Photo by David Isaac.

Gush Katif conference relives loss of Gaza communities, studies rifts in Israeli society

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It was 16 years ago Monday— the 10th of Av in the Hebrew calendar—that more than 8,000 Jews were evicted from their homes in the Gaza Strip in what was officially known as the...
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Rabbis for Hamas

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The recent fighting between Israel and Hamas once again forced American Jews to pick sides: Israel versus their universal ideals, which they see as incompatible with the Zionist enterprise. A case in point: a...