Column
The carnivals mocking ultra-Orthodox Jews and even victims of the Holocaust were all in good fun—the “just kidding” of kitsch without any malignant intent. Honestly, can’t Jews take a joke?
Traffic jams, crumbling and inadequate infrastructure, and a clunky political system are lamentable; however, historical perspective is needed on all of the Jewish state’s challenges.
Ahead of Israel’s March 2 elections, Blue and White leader Benny Gantz asserts that it’s time to make a change and promises to be “the prime minister of all Israeli citizens.”
Ahead of Israel’s March 2 elections, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calls on the public to vote for Likud to ensure that Israel’s security, political, diplomatic and economic objectives are met.
In a world where the best-case scenario has a Democratic Party that’s openly hostile to Israel, how is Israel supposed to deal with Hamas, the sweethearts of the radical left?
For many in the Jewish world, it will be a seminal moment in the relationship between Catholics and Jews since the Second Vatican Council of 1965 famously exonerated the Jewish people of the charge of “deicide”—collective, eternal responsibility for the suffering and death of Jesus.
He has been demonstrating to his direct Likud supporters, as well as to members of his right-wing and religious party bloc, that after 11 years running he still wants the job more than ever.
What Pro-Israel Democrats needed was for one of their presidential candidates to directly take on Sanders on the issue. It’s not going to happen.
The real cause of the descent into anti-Zionism and hatred of Jews is secular liberalism, and the cultural fissure that has opened up along fault lines going back to the 18th-century Enlightenment.
Sanders is criticized for his attitude towards Cuba, but it matters that while other Jews were protesting Soviet anti-Semitism, the Socialist had other priorities.
As Israeli voters approach a third election with resignation, the country may be sick of Netanyahu, though rests easy knowing that he’s still in charge.
Even members of the public forced into bomb shelters on a regular basis realize that the prime minister is doing the best he can to keep Hamas at bay, while reserving the option to launch a ground incursion into Gaza as a last resort.