Column
Part I of a series reviewing the facts of what we know has happened and an analysis of the horrific catastrophe in Beirut on Aug. 4 itself. Part II will focus on the ramifications.
The stockpile of weapons-grade ammonium nitrate and the collateral damage it caused to the Beirut port may well have been earmarked for Israel.
Twitter’s refusal to censor Iran’s leader the way it does President Trump is appalling and hypocritical. But that’s also why it’s a mistake to demand that the same people ban hate speech.
Whether the national leadership likes it or not, their point man in Philadelphia has embraced a view of the Jewish people that would sit happily with any and every white supremacist.
The head of the JCPA and the editor of JNS debate whether and when Jews should engage in dialogue with anti-Semites and questionable groups.
Jewish groups aligned with the Black Lives Matter movement in order to demonstrate support for social justice are ignoring the bloody chaos it has enabled.
The pandemic has become an educational disaster, but as the Seth Rogen kerfuffle reminds us, it’s also an opportunity to inform and inspire kids about Jewish life.
With all their verbiage, the one question that the protesters are not able to answer is how Netanyahu is harming Israeli democracy. That’s because he isn’t.
Both Trump and Netanyahu had the bad luck to be in power during a pandemic. But even the latter’s crisis-management skills weren’t enough to solve the problem.
They’re mad at their parents for being pro-Israel, so they take it out on the rest of us, battering the Jewish world with their incessant whining.
As in the United States, left-wing protesters in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv have hitched a ride on the economic distress the pandemic has induced with the full support of the media.
We know that there are those who are perversely reinforced in their worldviews when they encounter Jews (or those they perceived as Jews) speaking about the Holocaust, or the evils of racism, or the difficulties faced by immigrants in their host societies.