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Arlene Kushner

Arlene Kushner is co-founder of the Legal Grounds Campaign, which provides courses to law students regarding Israel’s legal rights in the Land of Israel.

The Al-Aqsa mosque compound in the Old City of Jerusalem, Jan. 3, 2023. Photo by Jamal Awad/Flash90.

Clarity on the Temple Mount

Temple deniers cannot erase the mountain of evidence showing the Jewish connection to the site.

June 4, 2023

Israeli flag. Credit: Maxim Studio/Shutterstock.

Israel’s remarkable heart

A beautiful antidote to all the ugliness.

February 16, 2023

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken at a Jerusalem press conference on Jan. 30, 2023. Photo by Yoav Ari Dudkevitch/POOL.

The onus is not on Israel

The distorted international narrative must be countered.

February 6, 2023

Galina Kovalenko, one of more than 40,000 Jews in Ukraine currently cared for by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) as part of their Ukraine crisis response efforts, celebrates Hanukkah in her home in of Lviv, Ukraine. Credit: Yura Malenko.

Looking towards the light

This Hanukkah, let’s celebrate Israel’s incoming government as well.

December 20, 2022

Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu addresses supporters at party headquarters in Jerusalem on election night, Nov. 2, 2022. Credit: Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90.

The right-wing victory saved the Jewish state

Too many have become disconnected from Jewish and biblical values.

November 13, 2022

Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid delivering his speech to the United Nations General Assembly on Sept. 22, 2022. Credit: Avi Ohayon/GPO.

The two-state paradigm comes round again

Some errors in thinking never go away.

October 4, 2022

Israeli security forces escort a group of religious Jews as they visit the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City, on Simchat Torah, Oct. 1, 2018. Photo by Sliman Khader/Flash90.

We must always remember the extraordinary gift of Israel

Why has this truth not been internalized by all the nation?

September 25, 2022

A ball of fire and smoke rises during Israeli airstrikes in Khan Younis, in the Gaza Strip, Aug. 5, 2022. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.

‘Operation Breaking Dawn’ was a mixed bag

We must guard against conclusions based on superficial impressions.

August 16, 2022

A woman and her children walk towards Kochav Hashachar in Judea and Samaria on June 4, 2009. Photo by Abir Sultan/Flash90.

A new Zionist effort to protect the land

The Nachala movement understands the danger of illegal Palestinian construction in Judea and Samaria—and intends to do something about it.

July 28, 2022