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Yom Hashoah is a day when aging survivors—many of whom are widowed or have no offspring—have the opportunity to be honored and, above all, heard.
Israel’s longest-serving premier is now expected to add at least 18 months to his premiership, while guiding Israel through a critical period of security, economic and diplomatic uncertainty.
American Jews turned Shoah observance into their civil religion. If belief in that secular faith is gone, then is there a place for the Holocaust in the community’s future?
Should we ever get confused about who the good guys and bad guys are, we need look no further than how each government behaved during the coronavirus pandemic to tell which is which.
The fact that the Communist regime has been included on a panel to decide some of the world’s human-rights issues is just another example of how the various agencies that compose the U.N. system can be twisted to favor one member state even as they discriminate against another.
Jails are coronavirus breeding grounds, but the efforts of Jewish anti-Zionists to free Palestinian terrorists speak volumes about their goals.
If the Democrats are to defeat Trump, Sanders’s leftist and anti-Israel supporters must embrace the nominee, but what will he have to give them to secure their support?
Apparently, the two sides are close to resolving the dispute. We’ll believe it when we see it.
This year’s seders will be remembered as those that depended on gadgetry and shunned the human touch. Computer screens, no matter the resolution, will never have enough pixels to replace a physical presence.
Coronavirus cooperation between Israel and the Palestinians was encouraging. But both the P.A. and Hamas have since reverted to their usual incitement against Jews.
We cannot know if Trump will beat the virus or if, with the lavish support of the Democrats, the “experts” and the media, the virus will beat him. Netanyahu is right: The time to act on Trump’s peace plan is now.
When he took the stage at the United Kingdom’s annual Glastonbury Festival in 2017, reveling in the thousands of audience members chanting his name to the tune of “Seven Nation Army” by the White Stripes, many commentators saw this rock-star moment as inaugurating a boldly new and potentially unstoppable Socialist opposition.