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Sadly, some things never seem to change – including the excuses that some people make for antisemitic thugs.
More than fifty world leaders will arrive in Israel’s capital to commemorate 75 years since the liberation of Auschwitz.
It is one thing to adopt a definition of antisemitism. It is another thing to start enforcing that definition and hinging state funding for organizations on their decisions to adopt it or not.
Identifying Jews as white in the context of American history is not only a perversion of the Jewish past but a denial of its peoplehood.
On January 17, 1945 – 75 years ago – Raoul Wallenberg was arrested by the Soviet military intelligence apparatus, never to be seen again.
President Donald Trump’s order to kill Qassem Soleimani is one of the most reckless acts taken by a president.
One must wonder what Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef was thinking when last week he launched into a tirade against non-Jewish Russian immigrants to Israel.
When Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, Hitler was delighted. Japan, as an ally, he reasoned, was going to attack the Soviet Union from the East.
My Word: This being 2020, when even discussion of the weather is political, the decision by Harry and Meghan (we’re all on first-name terms now) quickly became split along Left-Right lines.
Neda was among the millions of Iranians of all walks of life who had taken to the streets of Iran to protest the regime representative’s false claims of victory.
The removal of Iranian IRGC Maj.-Gen. Qasem Soleimani in an efficient, limited action by the US on January 3, was a praiseworthy move.
IF YOU needed an example of how the political wheel works, all you had to do was watch the dramatic last-minute developments at the Knesset on Wednesday night.
‘Does it sound logical?” wondered Defense Minister Naftali Bennett. “Imagine an American congressman hanging in his living room the picture of a man who murdered tens of Jews in a synagogue.
It is not only Arab voters who are deeply disappointed with the construct of the merged list. Israel needs a new vision and pragmatic camp of leaders.
Much debate has been conducted over whether the world is safer now, and many liberal Americans have been shuddering in their shoes over the likelihood of Iranian retaliation.
In defense, the KAN people claimed that Seeing the World is no longer needed.
As administration rationales seemed to shift hourly, Trump dropped “imminent” (which he misspelled “eminent”) and insisted “it doesn’t really matter because of his horrible past.”
Ironically, the concept of America being a “melting pot” was created back in 1909 by a British Jew who wrote a play about a fictional Russian-Jewish immigrant intent on moving to the United States.
The media are wrong: Politics isn’t always the answer – leadership is.
Meeting with Assad sent clear messages to the countries of the region.
From all the stories that have emerged in the aftermath, it’s become evident that the storm could have been worse
The decision of Tel Aviv University to close the Steinmetz Center is worrying for several reasons.
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Acre is a pearl in the Land of Israel, a paradigm for others in that it exemplifies the fact that people of different faiths and cultures can live together in harmony.
“We are building a global coalition of leaders who can send a strong message that will resonate around the world."
Ironically, if there is indeed a secret to Jewish genius, it’s precisely that Jews don’t believe the brain is an operating system you download from your parents
Palestinian rejectionism of the Jewish state, not the settlements, is the driving force of the prolonged Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
Lebanon’s “parliament, government, president, and all of the other state institutions are nothing more than a façade for players directed by [Hassan] Nasrallah.”
The truth is the time has come for the US to downgrade Saudi Arabia as its main strategic partner. To fill the gap, the US can reinforce its relations with Qatar.
In the last few years, several cases came to the surface in which the source of incitement, hatred and encouragement for violence were some popular tech products and their social media platforms.
Reflections from a Brooklyn Jew
Members of the coalition can only complain that the opposition offers no clear alternatives.
Yinon’s defenders say that he is weighing procedural matters, of the kind that are at the core of his job.
Readers of the Jerusalem Post have their say.
Imagine if the voice of a white person was valued over a black person in speaking out against brutality against the black community.
The Islamic Republic is engaged in a version of the Game of Thrones in which the iron throne is Mecca and Medina.
What President Trump did was to make it perfectly clear to the largest terrorist regime worldwide that it was a zero-sum game; that Americans would not be besieged on his watch without consequences.
After the Jersey City attacks, some local blacks despicably blamed Jews for living in the neighborhood and thus supposedly causing the attack.
As a successful ethnic group in America, we should be able to withstand these attacks and see them as only glancing blows in an otherwise very positive picture of our place in American society.
In what became a formative moment of my life, glaring into my eyes, she punctuated every word with her calloused finger wagging in my face: “We’re not Lithuanians. We are Jews.”
Every time Israeli leaders have trusted the pen over the sword it has ended in bloodshed and destruction, as in Oslo.
While Ben-Gurion’s belief that the Diaspora would disappear is undermined by existence of millions of Jews in countries outside Israel, Rawidowicz’s argument has suffered over the past six decades.
The European Union and the Palestinian Authority have developed a plan to destroy Israel.
The two-state solution should not be considered to be a partisan issue, but rather an issue over different values.
The continued delay in ruling on the Malka Leifer case has strained Israel’s ties with its close friend Australia.
What this week’s rains have shown is that solutions need to be found to the mundane challenges, even though laying drainage pipes might not be as exciting as developing algorithms for a laser sword.
Editor's Note: Both Iran and the US are now licking their wounds and learning their lessons. They are well aware though that the next round is just over the horizon.
I am a firm believer that setting goals is imperative to achieve sought-after milestones.
When it comes to genetics, variables are limitless, and it’s mind-blowing to see how each of us, in our own unique way, essentially won the genetic lottery.
The case is relevant to most Israeli merger and acquisition deals (“exits”).
The Foreign Ministry’s core work, under the guidance of Foreign Minister Israel Katz, include combating the ICC’s decision in The Hague.
Iran has crossed the threshold on low-enriched uranium, shortening significantly the time to produce enough fissile material for a nuclear device.
It is hard to get back to everyday matters when we consider the heart-breaking disaster that led to the deaths of Dean Yaakov Shoshani and Stav Harari last Saturday in Tel Aviv.
Turkey is often blamed for being a commercial and financial conduit for Iran in reducing the bite of US-led sanctions, and Istanbul Airport is by and away Iran’s major gateway to Europe.
While Israel is certainly a beneficiary of America’s latest actions, its enthusiasm for America’s entrance into this conflict should be tempered,
Trump has made it clear that attacks on American personnel are going to elicit a military reaction.
It is time to consider the causes of this trend, and what if anything can be done to reverse it.
The political tangle and the future of civil society in Israel.
Know Comment: The Islamic Republic of Iran is a self-declared radical power that openly seeks to create Greater Persia.
The most impressive “siyum” took place at Metlife Stadium in New Jersey, where 92,000 people attended to rejoice over this accomplishment.
My Word: Israelis did not shed tears for Soleimani. He was an arch-terrorist, responsible for the deaths of thousands of people across the globe.
Right from Wrong: In fairness to Israel’s top man-in-uniform, there were signs suggesting that Jerusalem would have to go it alone in any actual confrontation with the Islamic Republic.
One common thread that has emerged from my recollections of personal experiences with antisemitism is that there are good people who stand up for what is right.
KH is an Iranian-sponsored Shi’ite militia operating in Iraq and throughout Syria. Founded in 2003, it is in sympathy with the Lebanon-based Hezbollah organization.
Notwithstanding Iran’s several violations of the deal last year, it was still significantly far from having enough enriched uranium for a weapon.
This announcement has sparked considerable reactions and commentaries on whether it was legally grounded or not.
Iranian leaders and their militia allies must be contemplating these constraints. But they don’t show it.
In September, Stav Shafir and the “Green Party,” along with Ehud Barak and “Democratic Israel,” joined Meretz and created the “Democratic Union”.
Shrinking the freedom of expression is a strategic move by the PA.
Israel is in much the same predicament. It is a country fighting ruthless, anti-democratic powers that the United States considers dangerous, like Hezbollah and Iran.
Many are apathetic and indifferent to what is happening because we are considered to be in a special category. As a successful ethnic group in the US, we should be able to withstand these attacks.
The crux of Duda’s rejection of the invitation is the continued dispute between Warsaw and Moscow over whether their countries collaborated with the Nazis during World War II.
"Hadran alach, ve’hadrach alan”, Aramaic for “We have returned to you and we will return to you, dear tractate, and you have returned to us and will return to us.”
The freedoms America provided were unique; historically Jews were considered second or third class citizens – if citizens at all.
All the cringing and hand-wringing surrounding America’s targeted killing of Iran’s top military commander Qasem Soleimani is sickening.
The chief rabbi then made the conspiratorial claim, which has no factual basis, that these immigrants “were brought to Israel so that they would be a counterweight to the haredi community.”
Looking across the globe of where the most amount of money is being invested in new technologies, I believe that the next disruptive technology will be energy storage.
No Holds Barred: Soleimani was the man responsible for Iran’s operations in Syria, which he oversaw in person through dozens of visits. His goal: to keep Assad in power at any human cost.
The answer may be found in missed perceptions and miscalculations, primarily on the Iranian side.
Historically, Israel has had well known foreign ministers befitting a country on the world stage. But in the last decade that has been eroded.
My voice joined with all those others at Met Life Stadium in New Jersey, a short drive from midtown Manhattan, the stadium that is home to the NY Giants football team.
Reflections on the MetLife Stadium event with 92,000 people
Israel’s April and September 2019 elections produced deadlock after the main issue, effectively, was “Bibi or not Bibi.”
For years, Israeli officials reiterated that regional energy cooperation was not designed to exclude any other state
Antisemitism is a national security issue. This ongoing threat appears in many forms – and violent attacks only scratch the surface of this form of domestic terrorism.
Rebecca Algrisi, director of the Consulting and Research Division at Bank Hapoalim, has good answers to all these questions - and gives worthy advice
British Ambassador to Israel, Neil Wigan visited ALYN Hospital in Jerusalem, which specializes in the rehabilitation of children and teens.
The old wall of Arab anti-Zionism has fractured, but lingering hostility against Israel could explode anew.
What do they want from these elites and their descendants? To repent, to stop hoping that the Mizrahim will change their right-wing belief systems and traditional ways.
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