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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a statement to the media in the Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem on April 1, 2019, ahead of the Knesset elections. Credit: Hadas Parush/Flash90.

Netanyahu’s brilliant victory and the battles yet to come

In addition to the nightmare of satisfying conflicting ministerial demands, the prime minister now faces enormous external challenges.

April 21, 2019

Coffins containing the bodies of Jews killed in the Kielce pogrom in Poland post-Holocaust and World War II, July 6, 1946. Courtesy of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.

Lessons from the Polish imbroglio

We must neither forget nor forgive those who betrayed us. But politicians should never generalize. The details should be left for historians to compile and for our children to learn

February 28, 2019

More than 500 evangelical Christians and Jews from across North America gathered at Mar-a-Lago for the “Together in Fellowship” gala on March 25, 2018. Credit: Capehart Photography.

American Jewish leaders: Time to stand up for Israel

American Jews are at a turning point. They should unite to oppose the rapid radicalization of the Democratic Party before it’s too late.

February 1, 2019

Palestinian demonstrators burn tires as they demonstrate on the Gaza-Israel border on Oct. 12, 2018. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.

Attention, Israelis in power: Stop treating us like morons!

We must demand more than just feeble rationalizations of a truce. We need to restore our power of deterrence, as it used to be our principal strength but now appears to have lapsed.

December 2, 2018

U.S. President Donald Trump with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at United Nations headquarters in New York City on Sept. 26, 2018. Photo by Avi Ohayon/GPO.

Trump, Nazis, anti-Semitism and US Jewry

The most obscene aspect of anti-Trump mudslinging is the concerted attempt to portray him as an anti-Semite. This lie, frequently reiterated by progressive rabbis and Jewish lay leaders, has become embedded in the minds of many Democratic supporters.

November 18, 2018

U.S. President Donald Trump with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at United Nations headquarters in New York City on Sept. 26, 2018. Photo by Avi Ohayon/GPO.

A call to American Jewish leaders

In the past, mainstream Jewish organizations strove to be nonpartisan. But no longer, with the majority of the non-Orthodox strongly opposed to their president.

October 23, 2018

Ultra-Orthodox Jews celebrate the end of the Shavuot holiday in Jerusalem’s Old City, June 12, 2016. Photo by Shlomi Cohen/Flash 90.

The devastating impact of non-Jewish Jews

American Jews and their leaders, except for the Orthodox, have distanced themselves from their Jewish identity.

October 11, 2018

The perils facing Anglo Jewry

Anglo Jewry is confronting painful challenges. The fact that “Zionist” youth can publicly express such hostility towards Israel reflects a serious breakdown in education.

July 18, 2018

An Israeli border policeman tries to comfort residents in an apartment building after a Grad missile fired by Palestinian terrorists inside the Gaza strip exploded outside their building in Ashdod, Israel, on Oct. 29, 2011. Credit: EPA/EDI ISRAEL.

Testing Our Resolve

November 1, 2011