Column
A CNN host’s false analogy reminds us that blaming Trump for mass shootings is nothing like Palestinian incitement.
The family of a slain Israeli soldier is outraged that Hamas continues to hold their son’s body hostage. But whose fault is it that the terror group has gotten away with this crime?
Sanctions on the Iranian foreign minister indicate that hawks are still calling the shots for “maximum pressure,” despite the influence of Sen. Rand Paul and Tucker Carlson.
In the 20th century, Jewish lawyers, jurists and other activists sought to fashion international human-rights law into a defense mechanism to protect powerless minorities. The process through which it became a weapon to be used against the Jewish people is a tragic history.
The threat of anti-Semitic violence is real. But American Jews are not in the kind of danger that should force them to hide their identities or stay away from synagogues.
On the fundamental issue that has preserved the Jewish people for millennia—the binding nature of “halachah”—the Conservatives are formally on the Orthodox side of the divide. In a world where personal autonomy increasingly reigns supreme, that’s no small thing.
The claim that the Republicans love Israel because they are white supremacists is a big lie that smears Zionism and Jews as much as the GOP.
UNRWA Commissioner-General Pierre Krähenbühl collected money for business-class trips with his mistress, whom he fast-tracked into a role he invented for her so that she could accompany him around the world in style.
Yes. But no one should be laboring under the delusion that Russia or India can or will do much for the Jewish state.
Fifty-two years after rushing to be in Israel during the Six-Day War, Zubin Mehta retires after a lifetime of service with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.
As the old English proverb has it that there are none so blind as those who will not see; the reason the writer of a controversial journalistic series fell for such a poorly executed hoax is that he had already arrived at his conclusions.
His opponents argue that even if he is friendly to Jewish interests, Jewish values mandate that he be opposed. But those assumptions need to be questioned.