Column
Post-election blowback from moderates against the radicals could complicate the left’s progress in moving the party away from a pro-Israel position.
Saeb Erekat spoke honeyed words of peace to those in the West determined to ignore ineradicable Palestinian anti-Semitism and Israel-rejectionism. Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks chose to enlighten, inspire and console.
While some lament those who refuse to accept the election outcome, others continue the battle by stigmatizing those on the other side. How can Jewish communities come together after this?
The pro-Israel community should speak up against a new administration downgrading ties with Gulf states and others pursuing peace with Israel.
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks wasn’t just a scholar, philosopher and teacher. His attempts to bridge the contradictions in Jewish life provided a model that should be emulated.
Shame on Reuven Rivlin for marking the anniversary of Kristallnacht by taking a general stand against all forms of hatred.
The Israeli media grotesquely cheers the apparent defeat of Israel’s best friend ever in the Oval Office and his replacement by the vice president of the most hostile U.S. leader in history.
When journalists and social-media oligarchs declare some stories or ideas out of bounds and then discredit voter decisions, trust in the media and democracy is lost.
Only at the United Nations is the Palestinian question still regarded as the key to regional, if not global, peace, when that view has become an anachronism everywhere else.
There are good reasons to worry about the chances for greater tension, but as Netanyahu showed Obama, the Jewish state knows how to say “no.”
A seemingly unbridgeable cultural chasm now divides people in the West, including Diaspora Jews.
Trump’s better-than-expected showing, despite many Jews thinking that he’s a hatemonger, speaks volumes about the chasm between the two warring Jewish political tribes.