Jewish state

After debate backlash, California Democrat Scott Wiener says Israel carried out 'genocide' in Gaza

The California State Senator explained that he had been reluctant to call the war between Israel and Hamas a genocide because of the term's creation in response to the Holocaust.

San Francisco city supervisor Scott Wiener comments on a pilot program to permit private commuter buses to use public bus stops in San Francisco, California, January 21, 2014
TRANSPORTATION MINISTER Miri Regev once stated: 'What is a public broadcaster worht if we cannot control it?'

Railway to nowhere: How Miri Regev, Likud politics stalled Israel’s role in IMEC corridor - opinion

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits the Moriah War Memorial College in Sydney, Australia on February 23, 2017.

Israel-Diaspora relations are fracturing - both sides must invest in repair - opinion

The Zionist Congress meeting in April 2023 in Jerusalem.

The World Zionist Congress must reflect reality across the Jewish Diaspora - opinion


The hametz conflict requires common sense, not theocracy - editorial

While Israel is a Jewish state, it is not a theocracy, meaning the state cannot force its citizens to follow Jewish law.

Hametz is covered at a store in Israel

Rabbi Kanievsky's funeral a moment of truth for the Jewish state - opinion

The funeral of rabbi Kanievsky was a moment of revelation of the profound essence of the Jewish nation.

 RABBI CHAIM KANIEVSKY studies and ponders at his home in Bnei Brak, last year

My Word: Gut feelings on Amnesty International

When it comes to the Jewish state, Amnesty International’s US director Paul O’Brien doesn’t have healthy gut feelings so much as hateful Irritable Bowel Syndrome.

 JEWS AND ARABS wait for a tram at a Jerusalem light rail stop.

All 25 Jewish House Democrats blast Amnesty head’s comments on Israel

Paul O’Brien defended Amnesty’s recent report designating Israel as an “apartheid” state.

House impeachment manager and Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-NY) sits in his seat reading a pocket copy of the US Constitution as he waits for the start of US President Donald Trump's State of the Union address to a joint session of the US Congress in the House Chamber of the US Capito

Prof. Boehm's new book is latest in the two-state fantasy - opinion

In his new book, Prof. Omri Boehm claims that a Jewish state is not the answer to Jews' rights to self-determination.

 HAIFA, 1930s.

US Jewish convert ends hunger strike after gov’t promises citizenship by 2023

David Ben Moshe has ended his hunger strike to be recognized as an Israeli citizen after being assured he will receive full citizenship by January 2023.

 David Ben Moshe hunger strike.

Mansour Abbas crossed the Rubicon, more need to follow - opinion

This conflict will not end until the rejectionists accept defeat and recognize the legitimacy and permanency of the Jewish State.

 PRIME MINISTER Naftali Bennett and Ra’am Chairman Mansour Abbas confer in the Knesset last month.

Celebrating New Year's in Israel? Why not? - opinion

As far as the Torah is concerned, we’re in the middle of Year 5782, but for the better part of our daily lives, we’re about to bid welcome to Year 2022.

 RINGING IN the New Year in Tel Aviv: I doubt any other religious or ethnic group has two calendars hanging on the refrigerator.

Mansour Abbas’s ‘Jewish state’ bombshell - opinion

Though he deserves kudos for breaking with the longstanding tradition of his peers in the Knesset, let’s keep in mind that he’s a politician with an agenda beyond what he touted in his campaign.

MANSOUR ABBAS, head of the Ra’am Party, is seen after signing the coalition agreement, at Kfar Maccabiah in Ramat Gan, earlier this month.

Mansour Abbas recognizes the reality of Israel - editorial

Abbas’s bold declaration diverges drastically from the traditionally held views of Arab parties in the Knesset that Israel should be a state of all its citizens, and not a Jewish state.

MANSOUR ABBAS in the Knesset.