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A widely-respected veteran journalist with the JTA news service reported Biden's plan to visit Israel next month “appears unaffected” by Israel’s approval of the construction of some Jewish housing units in communities in Judea-Samaria. In other words, this “story” was—as in the mold of the classic Seinfeld sitcom formula—an article about nothing. He was writing about something that was NOT going to happen.

New Australian PM Anthony Albanese has called Israel an “oppressor” and accused it of collective punishment against the Palestinian Arabs.

There are 364 days a year during which one can discuss the challenges Jerusalem faces. For one day a year, let us simply rejoice in the fact that we are witnessing the vision of the eternal capital come true.

The past decade has been fraught with attacks on religious sites for Muslims and Christians throughout the Middle East. Only a free and democratic Israel will defend Jerusalem and all major religions.

The future of the Old City of Jerusalem will be decided by facts on the ground and the Jews who purchase and live in buildings along the route of the planned march.

Most of the partners in the coalition would rather bite their tongues than come out against the Arab MKs, whether their allies or those providing a safety net.

Almost every article on Israel, every report, that emerges in the west these days is rooted in skewed reporting and deliberate fictions.

Eleven years after the approval process started, the Jerusalem Municipal Preservation Committee gave final approval earlier this month to demolish this seven-story eyesore and replace it with a 30-story building containing retail shops along King George Street and residential apartments above.

Under the U.S. and International Definitions of “Refugees,” Palestinian Arabs Never Qualified as “Refugees”

In summary, Yitzchak lives a life in which he is grudgingly tolerated and respected, not loved.

Palestinians have been radicalized by their leaders and media to a point where they do not want to hear anything about a peace process with Israel. In fact, they want to see Israel vanish from the map, as the results of the student council elections and the polls clearly illustrate.

While I don’t support making abortion illegal – which the overturn of Roe would give states carte blanche to do – the idea of championing the practice as a glorious act of bodily freedom makes my body churn in disgust.

There is no phrase more Jewish than the basic declaration of faith "Shema Yisrael" and there is no more natural place to say it – quietly or demonstratively – than on the Temple Mount. The state's appeal against the decision permitting prayer on the holy compound sets a new record for absurdity.

When asked what the MVP means to him, his response was, It doesn't affect me that much, to be honest. When I see the list, of course there's great names. I never thought I would be on the list. It's a surprise.

The rules of the sabbatical year, shmita, require farmers to desist from working and open up their fields, with all their produce, to anyone.

As the U.S. moves into elections mode, the last thing the Democrats want to talk about is policy. Instead, they’re taking a page out of Saul Alinsky’s playbook and attempting to brand Republicans as racist and evil.

The “Nakba” resolution is only the next step in the quest to institutionalize antisemitism in American politics.

There’s a long history of playing fast and loose with footage and forensics when it comes to describing events that take place in the Holy Land.

The Russians aided the Arabs in their war against Israel; today, it has open dialogue and even friendly relations with us

Even those who dread another round of Knesset elections ought to take into consideration that Meretz MK Ghaida Rinawie Zoabi is a dubious (and dangerous) voice.

Given her performance to date, the actress, producer and author deserves not only an apology, but accolades, from those who doubted her abilities to serve as Israel’s first-ever Special Envoy for Combating Anti-Semitism and Delegitimization.

Israel’s leaders wax poetic about accepting the narrative of the “other” and pat each other on the back for their “courage” in effecting change, but here on the ground, the tensions between sectors of Israeli society are only getting worse.

If Israel is condemned no matter how it acts, perhaps it is time for its leadership to stop caring about what the world thinks and just tell the truth as it is.

When you examine the impact of the various anti-Zionist initiatives in the United States and Europe over the last 20 years, it quickly becomes apparent that their principle effect has been to diminish the security of Diaspora Jewish communities.

Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib wants to officially commemorate the “Nakba” but the resolution she presented has nothing to do with facts, ...

To Germany under Nazi influence, the Jew was a menace, representing the “enemy within.”

A culture self-destructs if its people choose not to defend it. Bad people get away with really bad stuff when everyone else chooses to look the other way.

For author Tamara Neuman, the return of Jews to Hebron demonstrates how “the aggrandizement of maternal roles” was used to claim rights in “Palestinian areas that have little remaining material evidence of a Jewish past.” She ignores Hebron’s place in Jewish history.

BDSers are single-minded; it’s all about the Jews. They could be called “Holocausters.”

When Biden last came, Israel was more isolated...Now, Biden enters a region where Israel has new ties and is working today on new joint naval drills with the US and Gulf friends, as well as growing ties with Greece, Cyprus and others in the Mediterranean.