Supporting Israeli Democracy

We are Zionists who believe that when the people of Israel exercise the sovereign right to vote, the result should be respected by all, by non-Jews and Jews throughout the world, and by Jews within Israel.

Jew-Hate at American Universities

The report paints a stark picture of an increasing, intensifying and carefully coordinated campaign of attacks on Jewish identity at over 60% of the colleges and universities that are popular with Jews,

The New Government Must Not Make A Chillul Hashem

Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. This law has held true almost without fail in human history.

The Temple Mount could be Israel’s symbol of victory

If the Israeli flag had been allowed to fly atop the Mount in 1967, the conflict might have ended then and there.

Accommodation Is The Way Forward In America

Let me explain what Rabbi Feinstein is hinting at. An alternative to “live and let live” is that the government promulgates (to use Rabbi Pruzansky’s word) substantive moral values such as family values, revealed truth, social justice, or national identity.

Biden Compares Illegal Immigrants to Holocaust victims. Where’s the Outrage ?

Millions of economic migrants crossing the U.S. southern border want a better life. But most are neither refugees nor analogous to Jews fleeing Nazi slaughter.

Time to ‘Shackle’ Israel’s Supreme Court

The court is primarily responsible for the criticism that now calls for a legislative remedy.

TOO Woke to Say The Prayer

Hmm. So a Rabbi and Temple of “Conservative Judaism” Now Will Not Recite the Prayer for Israel

Palestinian Terror Groups Challenge PA Forces

During 2022, the PA lost its security control over the Nablus and Jenin areas in the northern West Bank

LET MY PEOPLE PRAY

ISRAEL-JORDAN PEACE TREATY (1994) GUARANTEES JEWS ACCESS TO THE TEMPLE MOUNT

Happy Anniversary Mahmoud!

Today, Abbas starts the 19th year of his first 4-year term as Chairman/Dictator of the PA.   No doubt, he will celebrate more anniversaries in the years to come.

Antisemitism and THE NY TIMES

The paper of "Record" is obsessed with exposing wrongdoing in the Hasidic community-whether or not it exists

Why Christian Zionism is MORE Important than we Think

Despite some troubling trends among their youth, evangelicals remain the most ardent custodians of the US-Israel bond.

Table D’Hôte

I never knew my paternal grandparents. They died in Auschwitz, Hy”d. My father didn’t speak much of his life before the war, and much of what I’ve learned about my family has been supplied by Shayna.

Background: The Fight Over the Temple Mount

AFTER 150 YEARS OF CONFLICT, IT IS TIME FOR THE ARABS TO SHOW SOME MATURITY AND RESPONSIBILITY AND STOP THEIR RACIST INCITEMENT,

Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: No Solution Other than Permanent Resolution

Jordan must be recognized as the homeland of Palestinians.

Your Jewish Observance Is Between You And G-d

It makes me feel good when my non-observant friends come over and they’re excited to say the blessing for washing their hands or they hum along to the bentching. I’m happy when they like my cooking and learn that hey, kosher food is actually quite delicious.

United Nations: Empowering Terrorists

The "human rights defender, " about whom the UN is so worried, was arrested in 2005 and accused of plotting to murder Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, founder of the ultra-Orthodox Shas Party and former Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel.

The Death of Eternal Truths and the New Paganism

What happens when we discard those truths? Disaster

Jewish Values: The Real Issue

It is hard to refute the fact that the American exile has been the stopover most amenable to fulfilling the Gemara’s teaching (Pesachim 87b) that G-d only exiled the Jewish people among the nations of the world so that we should gather in converts.

Rav Chaim Druckman, zt”l – A Personal Reflection

My political and theological views diverged sharply with those taught by Rav Druckman, and my reverence for him became the stuff of childhood memories.

Why the Spike in Online Antisemitism is Worrying Israel

Since its founding, the State of Israel has faced many boycotts, all aimed at leading an agenda in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict or bringing about...

Are Attacks Floodgates Against Israel About To Open Further?

Does Israel have to be pluralistic as well as democratic to earn support?

Countering pro-BDS Jews

The alarming reality is that a significant number of the calls to boycott and punish Israel – come from Jews who grew up in a pro-Israeli environment.

American Jews Must Embrace Identity Politics-Their Own

To defeat antisemitism, U.S. Jews should finally admit that assimilation has failed and find a new way of being Americans.

Is the UK Turning into Something Extremely Different?

In 2013, British journalist Vincent Cooper wrote: "By the year 2050, in a mere 37 years, Britain will be a majority Muslim nation."

Israel’s New Government Must Not Abandon Jerusalem

The coalition negotiations demonstrated that preserving Israel’s capital is a low priority for the incoming government—this is a mistake.

Watch What I Do, Not What I Say

Those who see Israel’s new government as “racist” and “homophobic” prefer not to be confused by the facts.

Why the Upsurge in Black Attacks on Jews?

Antisemitism in the United States is being exploited by separatists in order to destroy the integrationist ideal.

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