The immediate existential threat to Israel has been removed. For now, Israelis can breathe. But that is true only for this moment, not necessarily for the next one.
Hostile powers don’t invent a nation’s weaknesses; they find the ones it already has, fund them, give them prestige, and push them through the institutions that decide how a society sees itself.
The moral question, however, never changed. If recognizing the Armenian tragedy is a moral imperative today, why was it not one in 2006, or in 1996?
Raphael Lemkin was my cousin. He was a Polish Jewish lawyer who watched the Nazis murder dozens of our relatives and sat down and invented a word for the crime he could not otherwise name - genocide.
The reality is that being the mother or father of a fallen soldier or hostage does not prove political suitability, nor should it.
Antisemitism knows no political boundaries. While on the Left more seems directed at Israel with some spillover to the American Jewish community, the targets on the Right tend to be Jews.
The latest agreement shows Israel and Lebanon increasingly aligned in efforts to weaken Hezbollah and restore state control.
Occupation does not begin at a border. It begins inside the human mind. That is why sexual violence has remained such an effective weapon across centuries.
This fast day is a reminder that destruction begins inside when unity fails and division takes root.
Netanyahu is echoing false claims about arrests in yeshivas while ignoring practical proposals that could increase haredi enlistment.
Jonathan Spector’s “Birthright,” now at MCC Theater, uses the free Israel trip as the starting point for decades of wrestling with Israel, Judaism and friendship.
