Some of the harshest critics of Israel have, as we have mentioned in these pages, repeatedly accused the Jewish State of “genocide” toward the Palestinians. The Movement for Black Lives recently produced a platform containing this false and inappropriate...

In the past several years there has been a steady drumbeat of attacks on “Zionism” by European educators, politicians and media that amount to thinly disguised anti-Semitism. One that came to light this past week was particularly poignant, and not...

While the November elections are front and center for Americans right now, interesting forces are simmering in Israel, ones that could remake the political landscape as they come to a full boil in the near future.Former Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon...

Fifty Black Lives Matter movement groups have just committed a genocide on the English language.See what we did there? We casually used a highly charged and extremely serious word — “genocide” — to describe a gross rhetorical inaccuracy.Yet that...

Mostly below the inescapable buzz of the political campaigns and conventions, the United States and Israel appear to be on the verge of a major defense agreement. Don’t be surprised to see the deal finalized prior to the November elections.With the...

Why do we care when deluded anti-Semites allege conspiracies? There are several reasons, but the most notable ones are that their status as crazy racists doesn’t always keep people from paying attention to them, and their words can have profound impact...

Pieces in Tablet, The Forward and beyond this week took to task those activists who dipped their pens in the online poison inkwell to rip Modern Orthodox Rabbi Haskel Lookstein for agreeing to deliver an invocation at the Republican National Convention.As...

“It’s my normal to live in a society that’s had a long history of racial strife. We’re in a much better place than we were when I was a young man here, but we have much work to do, particularly in our profession. Leaders in my position need to...

“Of course, indifference can be tempting — more than that, seductive. It is so much easier to look away from victims…for the person who is indifferent, his or her neighbor are of no consequence. And, therefore, their lives are meaningless. Their...

There are seemingly as many takes on the implications of Great Britain’s departure from the European Union as there are stars in the sky.From our corner of the universe, though, we consider a couple different questions than those being asked by most:...

For at least the past two decades, we have come to expect the relentless drumbeat of harsh criticism, unfair treatment and marginalization of the State of Israel by the United Nations. Thus it came as a most welcome surprise that Israel has been elected...

There are multiple reasons we mourn together, both in Judaism and beyond.We do so to respect the deceased, to comfort the family, to allow ourselves the opportunity to put the needs of others before our own needs, to create space and time to heal before...