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Rabbi Uri Pilichowski

Rabbi Uri Pilichowski is a senior educator at numerous educational institutions. The author of three books, he teaches Torah, Zionism and Israel studies around the world.

Anti-Israel demonstrators from Jewish Voice for Peace protest at the Canon House Building in Washington, D.C., on July 23, 2024. Photo by Tierney L. Cross/Getty Images.

Who are the anti-Zionist Jews?

Anti-Zionist Jews exist on the fringes of Judaism and aren’t representative of today’s mainstream Jewish community.

Rabbi Uri Pilichowski

August 18, 2024

An illustrative image of two people having a discussion. Source: DeepAI.

Rules for civilized political discourse

Keep to the truth, don’t be extreme and put Jews, Israel and country over party.

Rabbi Uri Pilichowski

August 11, 2024

"The Egyptians Drown in the Sea" by Gustave Doré, 1886. Source: Wikimedia Commons

We don’t spike the football

Israel will eliminate its enemies but its Zionist philosophy encourages humility over showboating.

Rabbi Uri Pilichowski

August 5, 2024

Israeli founding father and first prime minister David Ben-Gurion declares independence beneath a large portrait of Theodor Herzl, founder of modern Zionism, at the Tel Aviv Museum, today Independence Hall, on May 14, 1948. Photo by Zoltan Kluger/GPO.

Zionists took responsibility

The early Zionists' insistence on taking responsibility for their own destiny was key to their success.

Rabbi Uri Pilichowski

July 7, 2024

TikTok. Credit: Pixabay.

Social media and the campus aren’t real life

To pour millions upon millions of dollars into combating a problem that isn’t that big of a problem seems foolish.

Rabbi Uri Pilichowski

June 24, 2024

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads the weekly Likud Party meeting at the Menachem Begin Heritage Center in Jerusalem on March 14, 2016. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

It’s our responsibility to rescue the hostages

Israel did not give in to kidnappers in the past and it should not do so now.

Rabbi Uri Pilichowski

June 9, 2024

An illustrative image of U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres. Source: DeepAI.

It’s time to review international law

Israel is expected to observe the rules of war while fighting an enemy that deliberately violates them.

Rabbi Uri Pilichowski

May 22, 2024

A letter by Nachmanides to his son, engraved on the Ramban Synagogue in Jerusalem. Credit: Deror Avi via Wikimedia Commons.

Antisemitic persecution always happens in stages

In the absence of order, mutual respect turns to suspicion of the other.

Rabbi Uri Pilichowski

May 7, 2024

Palestinian youth demonstrate their skills during a graduation ceremony of a military-style camp organized by the Hamas movement in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, Aug. 18, 2017. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.

Palestinian hatred is caused by Palestinians

The claim that Israel’s anti-terror operations only create more terror is disproven by history.

Rabbi Uri Pilichowski

April 25, 2024