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History and historiography matter. As Winston Churchill astutely said, “Everyone can recognize history when it happens. Everyone can recognize history after it has happened; but only the wise man knows at the moment what is vital and permanent, what is lasting and memorable.” Today, such sensitivity to the value of history is evaporating from the public consciousness. The willful blindness to the instructional value of the past is manifesting itself in attempts to erase history rather than reckon with it responsibly.

Gone is the refrain: “We’re all in this together.” In its place is: “Why are only some sectors allowed the privilege of congregating in close quarters?”

No wonder Israel-haters are unhappy. Their lie is crumbling. The Zionist state is turning into a source for solutions and hope rather than hatred.

Western intellectual discourse regarding anything connected to Israel has been taken hostage by pseudo-intellectual, radical extremists who use distorted information, flawed facts, “progressive” language, and accepted buzzwords.

The recent explosion at Beirut Port highlights both Turkey’s growing defense cooperation with Iran and its strategic interest in Lebanon, which facilitates Ankara’s provocative and worrisome agenda in the Eastern Mediterranean. However, Turkey’s unrestrained aggression in that region may be a diversionary tactic from its slow and patient pursuit of a complex strategy to surround Egypt with hostile forces on multiple fronts and undercut its powerful regional role.

Now that the UAE has broken the Arab taboo against normalization with Israel, other Arab states will be inclined to do so in ways consistent with their interests.

We will lose as Jews and as Americans if we continue accepting our prescribed role as the sacrificial canary in the coal mine

The lack of protest against the Israel-UAE breakthrough is a sign of political maturity as Arab and Muslim populations clamor for reform at home rather than destructive ideological visions.

Western democracies have paid dearly for the right to freedom of expression and, if not protected and exercised, it can disappear overnight.

Israel finally has a prime minister willing to take the necessary action to put a stop to the Supreme Court's power grab and so defeat the gravest threat Israel faces as a Jewish and democratic state.

When Pres.Trump calls that pact the most important advance in a quarter-century he is being uncharacteristically understated. It’s already Israel’s warmest agreement with any Arab state. It is, in fact, the single greatest step ever taken towards normalizing Israel within the region

Many of us have legitimate reasons for not wanting to run back to shul. But Hashem loves us and misses us and wants to see us come out for Him, especially when it's inconvenient.

How does the author know the details of these alleged conversations? Were they disclosed in the public memoirs of President Carter and Vice President Mondale?

Most Arab countries see common interests with Israel in the face of the mullahs in Tehran with their imperial aggression in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Yemen and beyond, coupled with insatiable nuclear ambition.

If order is not restored to American cities, communities will not grow, and people will start to think more and more as how to protect themselves from the violence

We all sense that we are living in momentous times and that the end may be near. So we need to pull together our brothers and sisters with ropes of love (as in the famous formulation of the Chazon Ish). Let’s find our fellow Jews and love them. Period.

It was only when Billy Penn let it be known on July 24 that Rodney Muhammad had posted a particularly outrageous anti-Jewish meme that others in the Jewish community joined ZOA.

When the left, with all their conspiracies and hoaxes, could not unseat President Trump, another approach became necessary and it relied upon the tried-and-tested method of spontaneous rage.

Israel could find itself one day fighting American F-35 aircraft just as it found itself fighting American Patton tanks.

Just as we cannot forget our shared ancestry, we cannot lose sight of the future.

The senior levels of government during the Obama Administration were colluding to prevent President Trump from winning the election, and then, after it, to frame him in an attempted coup d'état.

Dershowitz is now undergoing a Cavanaugh-type witch hunt and, without any evidence, is being accused

While Israel’s prime minister clearly prefers working with a friendly Trump administration, he has demonstrated his ability to improve Israel’s diplomatic position regardless of which American political party is in power.

A recent statement issued by William Evanina, director of the US National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC), warned the American public that other countries are using "covert and overt influence measures" to sway the vote. The Iranian regime is named one of three countries, alongside Russia and China, about which the NCSC is particularly concerned.

The ultimate objective of the global dimension of China's programs appear to be geared toward replacing the existing political, military and economic dimension of the West's liberal democratic order -- again not surprisingly -- with one dominated solely by the Communist Party of China.

Britain, France and Germany support Russia and China in shoring up Iran, a regime that has waged a 40-year war against the West, intends to wipe Israel off the map and seeks nuclear weapons.

For European and other diplomats to continue to scurry about the region without pressing inevitable truths on the Palestinians is mischievous, at best. To be overly solicitous of the Palestinians, a long-time mistake of professional peace processors, is similarly unhelpful. Dishing out some tough love and dialing down Palestinian expectations would be much more constructive.

{Reposted from the BESA website} Turkey is protesting the UAE for establishing diplomatic relations with Israel—even though Ankara has had diplomatic relations with Israel for...

The major persistent objection to the settlements is not niceties of international law but the claim that they are an obstacle to peace. Take that claim away and the settlers can look forward to a prosperous future, albeit without the fulfillment of the wilder dreams of some.

There isn’t a person on the planet who hasn’t heard of George Floyd. Why isn’t the name of Rabbi Newmann equally familiar?