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Tehran apologists on both the right and left share a desire to stop the United States from stopping Iran. Does antipathy for Israel and its supporters explain this unusual coalition?
An Israeli Supreme Court ruling recognizing non-Orthodox conversions is more symbolism than substance. The fight to curb the power of the rabbinate must be resolved at the ballot box.
Contrary to common wisdom, the overruling of the ban on Ibtisam Mara’ana-Menuhin’s run in the Knesset election is good news for the right.
The launch of Iran’s first solid-propellant space rocket is highly significant.
Andrew Yang, the frontrunner to be the next mayor of the world’s largest Jewish city, took a stand against anti-Zionist hate, though backed down when Linda Sarsour pressed him on it.
When what some observers called the “new anti-Semitism” began to gather pace at the turn of this century, there were a handful of scholars, Gerstenfeld among them, who were equipped to explain that while the wine was new, the bottles were old.
Journalists, leftist Jewish groups and politicians like Bernie Sanders are lending weight to the toxic lie that Israel is denying the COVID vaccine to Palestinians.
Today’s Persians running Iran’s Islamic revolutionary regime consistently declare their intention to annihilate Israel and are building the capacity for nuclear weapons to achieve that infernal aim. And then, there’s the Western media and academia …
The foreign-policy establishment is warning Israel to watch its step with Biden. But Trump’s policies fostered regional changes that mean that total dependence on Washington is finished.
With Purim, we complete a full cycle of festivals that has shown that while much has changed in Jewish life, in some respects, it’s been business as usual.
The grieving relatives of the Israeli mother and fetus who died of COVID-19 should not have to argue with anti-coronavirus-vaxxers, whose arrogance is outweighed only by their ignorance.
Pop culture may have more influence over young viewers than news shows. That makes a so-called comedic endorsement of an anti-Semitic blood libel a serious problem.