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Jerome Marcus

Jerome M. Marcus is a lawyer in Philadelphia and a fellow at the Kohelet Policy Forum in Jerusalem.

Soldiers of the elite Maglan unit. Credit: IDF.

Fighting to keep fighting for Israel

Within 24 hours, 60,000-plus reserve officers and soldiers signed a letter upholding their service.

July 20, 2023

How to fight the culture wars

These day-school children will be filled with their own traditions and with the knowledge that they are parts of a community that invests them and their commitment to that tradition with immense importance.

March 1, 2021

Israeli police officers clash with haredim during a protest against the enforcement of coronavirus emergency regulations in the Mea Shearim neighborhood of Jerusalem, Oct. 4, 2020. Photo by Nati Shohat/Flash90.

Respecting belief in prayer and a way of life

Much ink has been spilled by Jews proclaiming their inability to understand the haredi response to COVID-19 restrictions imposed in America and Israel. That failure to understand is a failure on our part.

November 4, 2020

Former U.S. President Barack Obama, flanked by Vice President Joe Biden, delivers a statement on the Iran nuclear agreement in the East Room of the White House on July 14, 2015. Credit: Official White House Photo by Pete Souza.

Thank you, Obama and Biden, for bringing peace to the Middle East

Now we have peace busting out all over the place between Israel and the Arab countries.

August 20, 2020

The cover of “Justice for All: How the Jewish Bible Revolutionized Ethics,” by Jeremiah Unterman. Credit: Jewish Publication Society.

Mistaking the Jewish tradition in support of others

Most troubling of all is the concept that every person alive today is guilty of the sin of racial hatred.

August 10, 2020

U.S. House Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) (left) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.). Credit: EPA/Jim Lo Scalzo/Israel Hayom.

The optics don’t matter on Israel’s ban of Omar and Tlaib

Israel was right to refuse to let them visit “Palestine.” What it did was simply to deny entry to enemies—something every reasonable country does every day.

August 16, 2019

Soldiers with the Israel Defense Forces' 906th battalion on a training exercise in the Negev Desert. Credit: IDF Spokesperson Unit.

Democracies obey laws of armed conflict, while their enemies flout them

The intentional blending of civilians and combatants is the foundation stone of Islamist “military” strategy around the world—a settled part of their playbook.

June 5, 2019

Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike in the southern Gaza Strip, following a barrage of rockets launched on Israel, on May 5, 2019. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.

The story behind Arab attacks that needs to be told

In Hamas’s view, death on either side of the fence is a win.

May 6, 2019

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, addresses supporters as the results in Israel's national elections are announced at party headquarters in Tel Aviv on April 9, 2019. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Only the Knesset should be able to unseat a prime minister. Even if his name is Netanyahu.

A law that immunizes a sitting prime minister from criminal prosecution does one thing and one thing only: It gives the people’s legislature in Israel the power to decide whether a head of state should be removed.

April 25, 2019