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Rabbi Dov Fischer

Then-Vice President Joe Biden meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in March 2016. Photo by Amos Ben Gershom/GPO.

Imagine if Bibi sent this message to Biden

Friends should indeed be straightforward with each other.

Rabbi Dov Fischer

Mar. 30, 2023

Supreme Court justices arrive for a hearing in Jerusalem on the appointment of Shas leader Aryeh Deri as a government minister, Jan. 5, 2023. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

How to resolve Israel’s judicial reform debate

A “blue ribbon committee” must be appointed to shepherd the reforms into law.

Rabbi Dov Fischer

Mar. 8, 2023

Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu speaks with Religious Zionism Party head Bezalel Smotrich at the swearing-in of the 25th Knesset in Jerusalem, Nov. 15, 2022. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90.

The ‘death of Israeli democracy’?

In fact, Israeli voters have continually opted for the right-religious bloc.

Rabbi Dov Fischer

Jan. 24, 2023

Supreme Court justices arrive for a hearing in Jerusalem on the appointment of Shas leader Aryeh Deri as a government minister, Jan. 5, 2023. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Reforming Israel’s Supreme Court is perfectly reasonable

If a right-wing Court had been seizing extraordinary powers, the left would now be demanding the reforms it denounces.

Rabbi Dov Fischer

Jan. 16, 2023

How poisonous is the NSO scandal?

U.S. jurisprudence believes that, evil as it may be to turn a murderer loose, it is a much greater evil to countenance the government’s abuse of its vast powers.

Rabbi Dov Fischer

Feb. 10, 2022

Vice President Kamala Harris at George Mason University, Sept. 28, 2021. Source: YouTube/Screenshot.

Why Kamala Harris ignored a student’s anti-Israel remarks

Those of us who have followed her political career in California were not surprised by the recent firestorm she created.

Rabbi Dov Fischer

Oct. 6, 2021

Israelis participate in a march to celebrate Israel's 71st Independence Day, near Havat Gilad, in Judea and Samaria, on May 9, 2019. Photo by Hillel Maeir/Flash90.

Why rename Judea and Samaria?

No one calls Jersey City “the West Bank.” Why not? Too much history there? Too many biblical memories of Moses and Aaron buying shoes at Journal Square?

Rabbi Dov Fischer

Aug. 22, 2021

An anti-Israel protest in Rafah, in the Gaza Strip, June 15, 2021. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.

For anti-Zionists, ‘Palestine’ does not stop at the Green Line

When Israel’s enemies speak of “Occupied Palestinian Territory,” they don't mean just the Gaza Strip, Judea and Samaria.

Rabbi Dov Fischer

Aug. 9, 2021

Israelis participate in a march to celebrate Israel's 71st Independence Day near Havat Gilad in Judea and Samaria on May 9, 2019. Photo by Hillel Maeir/Flash90.

Applying sovereignty won’t be easy, but Israel is used to that

Time has run out on the Arab waiting game. Sovereignty won’t be simple—nothing of monumental historical consequence is. Only one more month to go.

Rabbi Dov Fischer

May. 26, 2020