Is Netanyahu responsible for this latest conflict?

As far as the many critics of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are concerned, there’s very little that goes wrong that can’t be attributed to what they consider to be his malevolent influence. Even the actions of Palestinian terrorist groups. Read more

When Hamas fires missiles at Israeli homes, forget nuance

It’s been almost seven years since the 2014 summer war in Gaza, but the discussion of the current fighting going on between Israel and Hamas seems as if it’s being read from the same script. Read more

How the Biden administration set the stage for a new war with Hamas

America’s European allies don’t get it. Read more

Can Israeli restraint keep the peace in Jerusalem?

After several days of unrest, the government of Israel is once again presented with a dilemma to which there are no easy answers. Read more

The upside of Israel’s electoral mess

If someone in Israel just woke up after being in a coma for the last two years, they’d have a lot of catching up to do learning about what happened while they were asleep. Read more

Israel has no choice but to act on its own to stop Iran

The head of Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency and the government’s national security adviser are in Washington this week on an important mission that has failed even before it began. Read more

What Bernie Madoff proved about America and the Jews

On Dec. 11, 2008, one of the worst events to rock the organized Jewish world was revealed on the front pages of newspapers. Read more

Why are Jews and Poles still arguing about the Holocaust?

It’s a controversy in which there are no heroes, as well as one that in a more rational world no one would bother with. Read more

The antisemitism permission slip Israel-haters wanted

Did the world need a new definition of antisemitism? Actually, no. Read more

Will Biden’s moves bring the Saudis closer to Israel?

President Joe Biden’s foreign-policy team has talked a lot about re-emphasizing diplomacy and re-engaging with allies after what they claim was the trashing of old friends during the presidency of Donald Trump. But that doesn’t appear to include America’s two most important allies in the Middle East: Israel and Saudi Arabia. Read more

Religious pluralism won’t be achieved in the courts

Reactions to this week’s Israeli Supreme Court ruling about recognizing the validity of conversions to Judaism by non-Orthodox denominations are all out of proportion to its actual significance in terms of the number of those affected by the decision. Read more

A gag about Israel and vaccines is more than a bad joke

A comedian telling a bad joke that hurts someone’s feelings isn’t news. Or at least it didn’t use to be. Read more

What is it that Jews actually value?

We already knew that the Genesis Prize was not really the “Jewish Nobel Prize” as its public-relations flacks have trained so many journalists to call it. Read more

Will a Palestinian election matter?

This once would have been the sort of gesture that would have inspired hope for peace in the Middle East, as well as gestures of support and friendship from the U.S. government. Read more

Unity or deprogramming? How about defending free speech?

Inauguration Day is a moment when it ought to be possible for both the winners and the losers in America’s political battles to set aside their enmity and at the very least pay lip service to the notion of national unity. Read more

There’s no such thing as an acceptable violent riot

A day after Americans were shocked by the horrifying images of a mob assaulting the nation’s Capitol, questions about the event abounded. Read more

When the rule of law breaks down, no one is safe

What happened at the Capitol on the day both Houses of Congress assembled in a joint session to certify the votes of the Electoral College in the 2020 presidential election was a disgrace. Read more

The COVID vaccine blood libel against Israel

The headline in The Guardian showed why so many people think Israel is the sum of all evil and deserving of international opprobrium. Read more

The most consequential Jew of 2020: Jared Kushner

He and his wife have been warned never to return to New York. Read more

The verdict of history and Benjamin Netanyahu

As far as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s most ardent supporters are concerned, those preparing his political obituary are again wasting their time. Read more

Is there something wrong with a program that encourages in-marriage?

What’s the point of programs that were designed to encourage young people to embrace their Jewish identity? Read more

Stop pretending that anti-Zionism isn’t antisemitism

In case you haven’t heard, people who want to eliminate Israel are very interested in stopping antisemitism. Read more

Biden makes the Netanyahu-Gantz divorce necessary

This isn’t what Israelis want to hear right now, but it’s nonetheless true. They need to hold another election. The prospect of a new administration in Washington is cause for concern, even if it may not prove to be the end of the world. But the challenge that this will pose requires Jerusalem to speak with one voice. Read more

The foreign-policy establishment strikes back

Their sigh of relief was heard around the globe. The foreign-policy establishment’s nightmare is finally over, and the keys to the American government are back in the usual hands. Read more

Conspiracy theories and political insanity

There was a time when conspiracy theories were confined to the fever swamps of American society. Read more

Can Democrats finally repudiate ‘The Squad’?

Not everybody in the Democratic Party is in love with “The Squad.” Read more

The personal diplomacy delusion

There are some ideas that are so seemingly logical and reflective of our best hopes about human nature that it doesn’t matter how often they are proved wrong. Read more

Should we care if Biden cools off relations with Saudis?

It’s the greatest of ironies. It wasn’t that long ago that Saudi Arabia was thought of as an implacable enemy of Israel and the Jewish people. Read more

A man who exemplified what it meant to be a Jewish leader

You didn’t have to agree with everything Rabbi Jonathan Sacks said or wrote to understand the value of what he was trying to teach. Read more

What a Biden presidency could mean for Israel

For some supporters of President Donald Trump in both Israel and the United States, the prospect of a President Joe Biden is a scenario they never wanted to contemplate. Read more

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