Category: Israel National News

“It seemed to me that I could smell the fumes and the fire.” Op-ed.  | Read More News from Israel 

The US has no obvious strategy to protect our culture and simultaneously undermine that of our enemies culture.  | Read More News from Israel 

The false accusations that reshaped the world’s understanding of Israel and the evidence that the oppoite was true that struggled to catch up. Opinion.  | Read More News from Israel 

Iran has already shown that it is willing to put Israel’s energy assets in its target bank, and Israel has already shown that it takes this threat seriously enough to invest in suitable defense capabilities and to shut down part...

An essay that examines, for the first time, a specific aspect of European Jewish art’s historical perspective over a period of 150 years, from the second part of the XIX century till today:  The aspect of  love expressed...

Mamdani leads the way. Good people. Decent people, they fall for it blindingly wholesale. Like the Germans were brainwashed by Hitler. Opinion.  | Read More News from Israel 

Faith does not mean pretending that suffering is not real. Faith means refusing to let suffering have the final word. When the physical Temple was destroyed, Jews took the idea of it with them into exile, learning the Talmud and...

My hope is that Tisha B’Av will increasingly become the day on which Jews ask not only why the Temple was destroyed, but whether Jewish society is becoming worthy and capable of receiving it again.  | Read More News from...

Mamdani is an Israel-hater, a Jew-hater, an America-hater, and a radical Islamist who was raised to hate. Opinion.  | Read More News from Israel 

Come greet Moshiach as a local Israeli resident and not as a tourist. Unfortunately, Jews did not do this during “Bayit Sheni” but history does not have to repeat itself.  | Read More News from Israel 

The expulsion of the Jews from Spain took place on  Tisha B’Av 1492. Now it is the Christians who will soon have no place in Spain. Opinion.  | Read More News from Israel 

New York’s mayor isn’t able to arrest Israel’s prime minister. But the widespread belief in the “genocide” blood libel illustrates how toxic ideologies, AI and social media are defeating facts. Opinion.  | Read More News...

If Tisha B’Av were taking place in a courtroom today, who would we place in the dock? Opinion.  | Read More News from Israel 

An entire maritime gateway is planned for outside the potential chokepoint at the strait, redirecting a growing share of energy exports and trade away from the direct line of threat. Opinion.  | Read More News from...

An interview with Rabbi Reuven Spolter, Director of English Programming at Herzog College on last week’s annual Bible Study marathon – and what he hopes the thousands who attended gained from their days of study.  |...

Iran is replacing blasted Fordow with a more impenetrable hiding place for centrifuges. What should the response be? Opinion.  | Read More News from Israel 

As Israeli minister Ofir Akunis put it, he might try running New York City and only New York City. The constituency being served here is not New York. It is the segment of his base for whom hating the Jewish state is the...

Britain suffers from a broken moral operating system. I want to suggest one treatment entirely within our own control. Opinion.  | Read More News from Israel 

We are only in the first act of an Israeli- Shakespearian drama of ‘reconciling ‘ the relationship of haredi society to mainstream Israeli society.  | Read More News from Israel 

Today when Israel is troubled on all sides, from without and within, here’s a short story to help cheer up our spirits.  Fantasy.  | Read More News from Israel 

JD Vance’s onspiratorial obsessions betray reality, undermine leadership, ancd misplace blame on Israel. Opinion.  | Read More News from Israel 

And where would JD Vance stand in that hypothetical scenario ? Opinion.  | Read More News from Israel 

The Massie amendment failed, but 103 Democrats voted to eliminate military assistance to Israel. The warning is not only for Jerusalem-it is for American Jewry. Op-ed.  | Read More News from Israel 

Even if Iran stays non-nuclear, its drone and ballistic missile capabilities could prod Israel to issue measured nuclear threats, with various options that must be carefully considered. Opinion.  | Read More News from...