Farley Weiss

The author is President of the National Council of Young Israel.

 SECURITY FORCES guard Jews visiting the Temple Mount on Tisha Be'av, a day of mourning the destruction of the Holy Temple

Hanukkah celebrates restoration of Jewish sovereignty over J'lem - opinion

US PRESIDENT Donald Trump takes on US Representatives Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar. Are American Jews stuck between a rock and hard place?

Barring antisemitic House members from visiting Israel is morally right

Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard leaves a federal courthouse in New York

Justice Department’s double standard toward Pollard


Changing world opinion starts with Israel asserting it owns the land

While the vast majority of Israelis realize that land for peace did not work, it seems opportune that Israel changes the public narrative to help with world opinion.

Israeli flag

On a Palestinian Arab state and the Obama administration’s commitment to Israel

The fight over Israel’s lack of support for the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state has led to a schism with the American government.

US President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Netanyahu in Congress

The American Jewish community shares Israel’s concern about Iran and we at the National Council of Young Israel supported the prime minister’s decision to speak to Congress.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his speech to US Congress on March 3, 2015, with US Speaker of the House John Boehner and President pro tempore of the US Senate Orrin Hatch applauding behind him

Implications of the Supreme Court’s ‘passport’ case

In what most concede to be a shrewd political play, the US administration has vigorously opposed attaching Israel’s name to the passports of citizens born in Jerusalem.

US Supreme Court

Moral distinctions

The Palestinian Authority has embraced mass murderers as heroes and Israel punishes all murderers, whether they murder Arabs or Jews.

Missing yeshiva students (left to right)Naphtali Fraenkel, Gil-ad Shaar and Eyal Yifrach.

Drawing the line on J Street

The Conference of Presidents’s rejection of J Street’s membership application was the right decision.

AIPAC and J Street

Extradite terrorists with American blood on their hands

The goal is peace. A real, sustainable peace. Without a system of justice for those who murder there can be no peace.

Israelis protesting Palestinian prisoner release

More questions than answers

Is there anyone who seriously believes a Palestinian state will help Israel’s security?

Palestinian flags waving in West Bank 370