The only answer to hatred of Jews is Jewish pride

This week on Twitter, a Jewish writer in Los Angeles decided to dispense some advice to her followers. Read more

The Whitney again

A month ago, I wrote a blog about the Whitney Biennial 2019 Exhibition that included a piece which, among other things, contained a distorted smear job against Israel over its use of tear gas to break up the Gaza protests. Read more

New Zealand continues to proudly fund corruption and extremism

New Zealand is proud to support a UN agency that has recently been accused of serious corruption and other abuses of power and no official or minister has even acknowledged any issue. Read more

A most dangerous season

We are now in the midst of the three weeks, that period between 17 Tammuz and 9 Av, which commemorates the destruction of both Temples and other historical calamities. Read more

In today’s world, Orthodox and Conservative Jews should be natural allies

Jewish tradition holds that the Second Temple was destroyed by baseless hatred. Read more

Is this Netanyahu’s last hurrah?

Although Benjamin Netanyahu has now become Israel’s longest-serving prime minister, projections suggest that MK and former defence minister Avigdor Lieberman will achieve his objective and bring about Netanyahu’s political demise. Read more

Schadenfreude and the UNRWA scandal

Revelations of rampant wrongdoing in the corridors of the United Nations Relief Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) couldn’t have shamed a more worthy organization. Read more

Another United Nations mockery and New Zealand’s hypocrisy

It’s all too easy when there are active efforts against Jewish self-determination in their indigenous land to focus on the haters and assume they are large in number. Read more

PLO suicide note leaves Jordan to decide fate of West Bank

President Trump has been given the clearest notice that his deal of the century will be stillborn if he designates any role for the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in its implementation. Read more

In the next election, let Israel win!

For many years, a key element in the Israeli psyche has been missing. Gone is the passion, not for our land, not for our state, but for our leadership. For both those in power and those in the opposition, enthusiasm has waned considerably. Read more

Shaked shakes up politics again with new merger on Israeli right

Israel’s politics got another major shakeup in recent days—this time on the right, with the announcement of the merger between Ayelet Shaked’s New Right Party and Jewish Home. Read more

Feintooner

This week’s cartoon – Gender Offender Read more

Why do we fast? Ask the rabbi

This question and others answered by Rabbi Raymond Apple. Read more

On the other hand

In most countries summer vacation time means a virtual shutdown as employees, employers and their families take a well-earned rest and the pace of life slows down. Read more

Can Israel’s new left-wing alliance shift the political landscape?

With the deadline to file party lists ahead of the September election fast approaching, a major shake-up within Israel’s leftist could bolster its camp after weak results in the April election. Read more

What are Jews to do about Trump?

Most American Jews didn’t need the latest controversy involving President Donald Trump in order to be convinced to resist him. Read more

A blow to BDS in the House

For one day at least, the Democratic Party’s leadership made it clear that the adults are still in charge. Read more

Is Boris Johnson good for the Jews?

Britain now has its first celebrity prime minister. Read more

Rabbis who ban

People have every right to decide what they will read and what not. Read more

Who blinks first?

“The whole idea of deterrence is to convince your enemy that you are willing and able to make it so painful for them to continue on a threatening or bellicose course that they change their behaviour.” Read more

The Writing on the Wall: a book review by Geoffrey Zygier

The Holocaust may be the most written-about episode in modern history. More than seventy years have passed since the liberation of the extermination camps, yet interest never seems to flag. Read more

For Israeli children coping with loss, a week of hope and healing

Losing members of one’s family to violence is traumatic for anyone, let alone the very young. Read more

Power struggles over ‘day after Abbas’ rage largely under the surface, for now

In the West Bank, a number of factions, militias and armed terror organizations have been thinking for a while now about the day after the leadership of Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas comes to an end. Read more

PLO blocks West Bank Arabs leaving for a better life

Secretary-General of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) – Saeb Erekat – has told a political symposium in Jericho that West Bank Arabs would not be allowed to voluntarily leave – virtually holding them captives against their will. Read more

Does God have a tallit and tefillin….?

Ask the rabbi… Read more

Feintooner

This week’s cartoon…The Fatuous Four. Read more

How we feel about technology today matters for tomorrow

If we took a surgeon from 100 years ago and placed them in an operating room today, it would be unlikely they would be able to do their job. Read more

As Netanyahu strides by a longevity record, his biggest challenges may lie ahead

History was made on July 20 as Benjamin Netanyahu, 69, became the longest-serving prime minister that the nation—only two years older than he—has seen. Read more

What will history say about Netanyahu?

The numbers are staggering, no matter how you count them. Whether you say 13 years and 128 days or just call it 4,876 days, on Saturday, July 20, Benjamin Netanyahu became Israel’s long-serving prime minister. Read more

AMIA 25 years on: Insult, injury and Argentina’s upcoming election

In 2006, Argentine government lawyers led by the federal prosecutor Alberto Nisman formally named the eight leading Iranian officials who planned the bombing attack 12 years earlier, at 9:53 a.m. on July 18, 1994, on the AMIA Jewish centre in downtown Buenos Aires. Read more

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