Column
Jewish institutions have a hard choice to make about protecting their buildings in a world where even armed guards might not be enough.
How an out-of-context comment from Israel’s chief rabbi about a Pittsburgh synagogue doesn’t need to widen the Israel-Diaspora divide.
The decline of political civility damages democracy. Yet there is still a difference between offensive speech and violent actions.
Demonizing Zionism and Israel was always a key aim of Holocaust-deniers like Robert Faurisson. Bear that in mind the next time you hear someone say that anti-Semitism might be bad, but anti-Zionism is something noble.
Our outrage at the Saudis notwithstanding, is a tilt towards Turkey and Iran worth it? Or is this really all about Trump?
Artists don’t have an intrinsic right to state subsidies, but neither should government ministers play the censor.
When the Palestinians had exclusive responsibility for security in Bethlehem, Palestinian snipers sat on the rooftops, shooting at soldiers and Jewish visitors to Rachel’s Tomb.
The land in question isn’t important in and of itself, but it’s a symbol of peace with Israel.
The issue isn’t whether it’s OK to criticize the government of a democracy, but whether that democracy has a right to exist and to defend itself.
This recent decision reeks of cowardice and makes a laughingstock of Israel’s sovereignty and commitment to law and order.
The purpose of the rocket attack was to pressure Egypt to increase efforts to end the Gaza embargo and to serve as a warning to Israel before making a decision to launch a military strike against Hamas.
For Jews, the 80th anniversary of Kristallnacht and the centennial of the end of World War I are occasions for profound historical reflection, in a year that has already witnessed the 70th anniversary of the State of Israel’s creation.