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JOOL – The Future of Jewish
Join host Joshua Hoffman, author of the book "The Future of Jewish," as he interviews guests about the future of Judaism, Jewish life, Jewish Peoplehood, and Israel.
Returning the Israeli hostages without destroying Hamas is like treating cancer with painkillers.
In the IDF, we see the Jewish story itself — because, when Israelis fight, they fight for life.
The real history between Israelis and Arabs isn’t about land or religion, but about pride, culture, and a civilization struggling to face its own reflection in the Jewish state.
It's not activism. It's a 100-year propaganda war. The Nazis invented the "genocide" lie about Jews, and the Left revived it.
Today, social media can invert reality. It's not "a terror group hides behind civilians" but "Israel slaughters children." Hamas has perfected it, and the world swallows it whole.
October 8, 2023 was when the world changed for Jews, and when Jews began to change for the world.
Even when everything breaks, the Jewish People build again. That is the lesson of October 7th, just like it is throughout the Jews' extensive history.
Survival is no longer enough. After centuries of virulent antisemitism which still haunts us to this very day, Jewish strength, unity, and faith must become our victory. No permission required.
U.S. President Donald Trump, with the help of Hamas' backers, is turning the Jewish state's surrender into his "Peace Prize."
The lesson of history is unambiguous: Those who love dead Jews will never defend living ones. Only Jews can do that. And we must.
Jews are murdered in the UK, just like they were on October 7th, and far too many people still won’t say why.
The contrast between the emerging consensus among the “pro-Palestine” crowd and the cries of actual Palestinians in Gaza could hardly be starker.
The UK, Canada, and Australia were once the world's most tolerant multicultural societies. Now they are hotbeds of antisemitism. It spells major decline not just for their Jews, but for these entire nations.
Most people know it as a solemn day of self-denial and synagogue services, but there’s so much more to this holy day.
Judged in the context of Jewish history, it is more likely than not if something isn’t done. And what needs to be done is to smash the Red-Green Alliance.
Much of the West still clings to the fantasy that Islamists can be coaxed into moderation. But Islamists only see such gestures as weakness to be exploited.
To oppose Zionism is to say that everyone deserves sovereignty except the Jews. That is not edgy activism; it is antisemitism.
Retreating on our own terms transforms weakness into sovereignty, dignity, and renewal — before history repeats itself again.
If the old two-state solution is dead, but the Palestinians can’t expel the Israelis, Israel can’t expel the Palestinians, and the status quo is untenable, then we need bolder alternatives.
Traits typically recognized as disordered (such as splitting, narcissism, hysteria, and cruelty) are now celebrated as moral virtues in activist culture, with "Palestine" as their perfect stage.
This is what Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu probably won't say when he addresses the United Nations General Assembly on Friday, but should.
Journalists should be honest: Israel’s roots lie in ancient Jewish history and the Zionist movement long before the Holocaust, which only underscored the urgency of a sovereign homeland.
Save for a few courageous souls, this deeply troubled and inept organization has become the United Nations of Jew-Haters.
The Jews agreed to a Palestinian state in 1947. The Arabs didn't because that meant agreeing to a Jewish state in the Jews' indigenous homeland. And much of the West still punishes the Jews.
All the empires the Jews have outlived to return to our homeland reads like a “Who’s Who” of history’s greatest powers. Our current foes, Islamists and the Far-Left, are destined to join this list.
This Rosh Hashanah, let's stop fighting antisemites and start loving thy Jewish neighbor. In our post-October 7th world, Jewish unity is no longer optional. Our very survival depends on it.
Rosh Hashanah isn’t just apples and honey. It’s one of the richest holidays on the Jewish calendar, filled with history, symbolism, and meaning you might not know about.
The Red-Green Alliance is increasingly influencing leftist politics across the West — and Israel pays the price. No self-respecting diaspora Jew can trust the Left anymore.
Palestinianism is not about building roads, or governing a territory, or seeking coexistence. Its highest aspiration, its unifying ideal, is the genocide of the Jews.
The institution created to prevent the scourge of war has now perfected the politics of scapegoating. The State of Israel should quit this troubled entity once and for all. Enough of the circus.
As willing collaborators in Hamas’ strategy, the UN has incentivised terrorists going forward to replicate what Hamas has done — and the price for that will be paid by civilians.
Lies, double standards, and open Jew-hatred have replaced reason in much of the global discourse.
The IDF will win this battle, Hamas will win the propaganda war, and much of the world will punish Israel for achieving yet another military victory against a brutal and barbaric terror group.
But being caught in this political trap also presents a hidden opportunity. Instead of pleading for recognition, Jews can turn the tables.
When everything becomes about Palestine, nothing is left for Jews — not safety, not dignity, not truth. The obsession with Palestinianism is not about Palestinians; it’s about Jews.
What began as a movement claiming to fight fascism now mirrors its hatred, totalitarianism, and obsession with Jews.
The Jewish state’s response to Hamas’ October 7th pogrom has exposed gross double standards across academia, the modern Left, Europe, NGOs, Qatar, and beyond.
Nazism runs unbroken from Hitler to the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, through the Muslim Brotherhood, into Hamas, and out into Western streets today.
When parents withhold Judaism, they deprive their children of history’s greatest inheritance: resilience, purpose, and pride.
And if some two million Jews who live in New York cannot defeat an unapologetic Jew-hater like Zohran Mamdani, then we deserve to ask if we have learned anything whatsoever from the Holocaust.
Sombreros are a serious threat, but somehow Hamas isn’t. Welcome to the wacky world of academia.
In warfare, creating fear and hesitation in your enemy can be as valuable as eliminating them outright.
The implications of Israel's strike on Tuesday against Hamas leaders in Qatar are profound, and the entire Arab world has been put on notice.
Where exploitation and manipulation are all part Hamas’ plan, Israel acting irrationally in the very short term makes it highly rational in the long term.
Until the international community confronts this culture of celebrating and glorifying violence, they will never understand the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Western academics punished Russia, excuse Hamas, and condemn Israel. How very unintelligent.
This is how you know the "pro-Palestinian" movement is a farce for modern-day antisemitism at its core. Every Jew must take notice.
We need to wake up to what this really means for the Jewish People, and what it means we will have to do in the years to come.
Hitler’s racial utopia collided with two Jewish teenagers’ creation of the most enduring superhero of our time.
To be truly “pro-peace” is to be “pro-strength,” “pro-defense,” and when necessary, “pro-war.”
Now that the political construct of Left and Right has collapsed, the Israel question exposes who defends civilization — and who's enabling its destruction.
Genocide is not determined by the likes of a student council election. You cannot vote it into being. Either there is evidence of systematic extermination, or there is not. And, in Gaza, there is not.
When ideology trumps reality, when slogans replace law enforcement, when politicians care more about "activists" than about parents afraid for their Jewish children, this is the predictable result.
This story reveals the mindset of many Westerners (including some Western Jews) steeped in the self-righteous, virtue-signaling posture of today’s deranged “woke” culture.
If other countries want to impose a Palestinian terror state on Israel, then Israel will have to do what it has to do.
Now more than ever, Jews need a rallying cry — and Israel offers the only call strong enough to overcome division and indifference.
Ultimately, the terror group’s most significant weapon is not rockets or fighters, but its capacity to endure and adapt.
Hating Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his coalition has become a global sport — and let’s stop pretending that it’s actually about policy. It’s about the world’s oldest double standard.
Holocaust inversion is a rhetorical strategy in which Jews are depicted as having become the new Nazis, while others, in this case the Palestinians, are cast as the new Jews.
Photographs of Gazan children are repeatedly being manipulated, while these children have no choice about whether they should be used as sick clickbait to make a lie-infested political point.
The forgotten story of the Damascus Affair united Jews worldwide, and we must learn from it today.
Hamas exploits the press badge, and Western media aids and abets them in playing this cynical game.
The world benefits enormously from Israel, even if it refuses to admit it. It’s time we stop apologizing for existing and begging for fairness.
Thousands of years later, we’re still wrestling with the same question as our ancestors: Should Jews immigrate to their motherland?
This is not moral equivalency. This is moral distortion. Real "Tikkun Olam" means having absolute moral clarity.
He spent his career fighting for justice. Then he realized he was fighting the wrong fight. Indeed, many Jews fell for the "woke" lie.
Too much of what passes today as Jewish “thought leadership” is utterly useless to Jews who need real answers amid skyrocketing antisemitism, political uncertainty, and social insecurity.
I love Israel not because she is flawless, but because she is ours. If we're not advocating for our Jewish state, we're letting others write her story.
It is not enough to merely outlast those who wish to harm us. Our calling is to transform the blows into a deeper resilience, a renewed culture, and a flourishing Jewish future.
The courage activism once demanded has been replaced by the performance of it. Announcing you’re “anti-war” or want to “save the planet” doesn’t mean you have the faintest idea how to solve either.
From Brooklyn to Melbourne, too many Jews see Israel not as it is, but as a canvas for their politics, nostalgia, and illusions.
Israelis have always been politically engaged. Demonstrations are part of the country’s DNA. But one of Israel’s enduring truths is that the silent majority is often drowned out by the street.
We don't demand equal numbers of Laotian ballet dancers or left-handed plumbers, but many folks single out Jews for being too represented in certain fields. It makes no sense.
Behind closed doors, the IDF is admired and studied in great detail. Yet, in public, it’s denounced. Condemnation without context or consistency will not produce peace.
The Jewish cause is not every cause. We must stop funding everyone else’s problems. We don’t need to prove our morality. We need to ensure our survival.
To be pro-Israel is to affirm belief in moral clarity, civilizational inheritance, and national sovereignty — all core components of what makes the West great.
Telling the Jewish story without including Mizrahi, Sephardic, and other global Jewish histories is like reading a book with half of its chapters missing.
In human history, the most persecuted minorities aren’t always the poorest or the weakest; they are often the ones who, against all odds, succeed.
Israel isn't depriving Gazans of food, water, and medical supplies. The crooked United Nations, in bed with Hamas for years, is the actual culprit.
When "progressives" preach human rights but excuse terrorists, you know there's something fundamentally rotten with their calculus.
This is a fractured testament to October 7th, where memory, grief, and history speak in whispers only the living can still hear. Listener discretion is advised.
The Israel-Hamas conflict is not just about bombs and bullets. It also involves heavily biased hashtags, headlines, and live feeds — propagated, in large part, by the Qatari outlet against Israel.
Like all domino effects, the results have been a mix of tragedy, resilience, and unexpected opportunity.
I'm not overly religious, so I wanted to know what our ancient sources say about Israel's pending conquest of Gaza City. The answers may surprise you.
From elite schools to cultural dominance, we need a bold blueprint to make antisemitism irrelevant and Jewish power permanent.
There is no inherent contradiction between liberalism and Zionism, but there is an obvious contradiction between liberalism and the Palestinian movement. Why, then, do so many liberals support it?
By co-opting the hostage cause, amplifying enemy propaganda, and undermining unity in wartime, Israel’s Far-Left is weakening the country from within.
Jewish history is littered with real-life examples of what happens when sociopolitical movements become messianic doctrines. The outcome is rarely pretty.
If we define ourselves predominantly through the fight against antisemitism, we risk reinforcing the very image they project onto us.
Our enemy is not just fighting with guns and bombs. They are experts at weaponizing emotion — guilt, shame, grief, fear, rage — and turning it against us. Let's not fall into their pernicious trap.
For those who courageously stand with Israel, here is a step-by-step strategy to shut down the false genocide narrative levied at the Jewish state and expose the dangerous double standards fueling it.
This one "what if" could rewrite 2,000 years of Jewish exile, suffering, and persecution. Now, the path to be taken rests on our shoulders.
When it comes to Jews, longtime social work ethics have become voided as an integral part of our field.
Far too many Palestinians and their "supporters" choose terror over peace and coexistence, propaganda over truth, and endless sympathy without any accountability.
Israel can’t both rescue the hostages and defeat Hamas. It’s a devastating moral dilemma, but reality always beats wishful thinking.
How has Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu come to be seen as the embodiment of evil? Is he really the monster that the media often portrays him to be?
The UK wants to recognize a Palestinian state based on bizarre logic. Hamas is thrilled, of course — but what happens when we apply the British prime minister’s own reasoning to the Palestinians?
We have to stop sounding the alarm about antisemitism as a political strategy to get our neighbors to care. It’s not working, and it may even be hurting us.
Hamas isn't a government. It's not a liberation or "resistance" movement. It's a gang, a mafia. Maybe that reframing will wake up more people to the reality in Gaza and other parts of the Middle East.
Feeding the enemy, trading hostages for terrorists, and extending the war under the banner of morality are not acts of ethics; they are acts of madness.
Feeding people in Gaza isn’t simply a humanitarian issue. It’s a power struggle, and the United Nations is not impartial. They are aiding and abetting Hamas.
When Jews turn on Jews, everyone loses. And yet we keep making the same ignorant mistake.
External parties can dream about "Palestine" until they go blue in the face, but the reality is that Palestinians have zero capability to self-govern, no less zero desire to live in peace with Israel.
In 2018, I visited two refugee camps in Lebanon, a place where Israelis are banned and Jews aren't welcome. What I saw shattered what I thought I understood about humanitarian aid.
No, Israel doesn't owe Gazans breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Would you seriously feed your neighbor who's trying to set your house ablaze and viciously murder your family?
Here’s the uncomfortable truth: Most of this caring is performative. It’s cheap outrage, a way to feel righteous and stroke the ego without paying a price. Meanwhile, people in Israel and Gaza suffer.
The only real way to understand this saga is to understand its perpetual cause-and-effect nature.
"Anti-Zionists" cheer for the side whose game plan for victory is sacrificing as many of their own civilians as possible.
Now they found their man — an Israeli! a Jew! — to give Times readers exactly what they want to hear: that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, no matter how remotely untrue and unverified this is.
To define the Jewish state by its current government or any of its governments or politicians is to misunderstand what Israel is, and worse, to pollute its very essence.
Empathy itself being used as a weapon instead of a bridge. I call this phenomenon “empathicide.”
If current trends continue, and if voting patterns start to reflect the shifting views of the electorate, we may find ourselves in uncharted territory.
It makes no moral sense — until you recognize the real ideology at play: stay oppressed, or be villainized. Liberation is only acceptable if it never actually arrives.
The State of Israel is younger than McDonald’s, Coca-Cola, Harley-Davidson, JCPenney, Colgate, and your grandma’s microwave. Yet the world expects it to have the wisdom of a centuries-old monastery.
Jews must use their power in many ways, and the most effective is to employ wildly disproportionate means to achieve deterrence.
Ali Khamenei lives today not because Israel can’t kill him, but because Israel believes some lines should not be crossed, even when facing an enemy that respects none.
Can we develop the courage to be despised, and the strength to be beloved? That is the Jewish paradox.
"Students for Justice in Palestine" is not about Palestinians. It's about hating Jews. It's Hamas' PR team at Western universities.
In “The Merchant of Venice,” the English playwright provides a description of Judeophobia before the word existed.
Instead of apologizing, Jews should remind the world: We were here before you, and we will be leaving after you. We are fine just the way we are.
Despite its reputation for tolerance, Britain has long nurtured antisemitism — from Shakespeare to the BBC, from street protests to state policy — and today it’s resurfacing with alarming intensity.
From British blueprints to billionaire fantasies, every grand vision for Gaza has collapsed under the weight of war, terror, and history.
Now, I’m an Israeli citizen living in one of the country’s most diverse cities, where coexistence isn’t just a buzzword but a real way of life.
As one of the greatest politicians of our time, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu isn't just strategizing; he's rewriting the rules of power.
Welcome to the "TikTok Intifada," delivered by the Chinese Communist Party, amplified by the Muslim Brotherhood, and coming to a smartphone near you.
Israel isn’t judged because it’s uniquely brutal. It’s judged because it’s uniquely Jewish.
At a time when the Jewish state is in great need of rehabilitating its global image, Israel’s youth are poised to do so with authenticity and passion.
New York City's recent primary elections are a wake-up call for many Jews who realize we've grown too comfortable, too complacent. The political ground beneath us is shakier than we thought.
Does the Left actually want to see minorities succeed? Or has it grown too attached to eternal victimhood?
Antisemitism has taken root in segments of the black community, fueled by envy, ideology, and a distorted view of Jewish identity.
I chose to move to Israel without ever setting foot in it because I believe, deep in my soul, we are fighting for a future that felt out of reach anywhere else.
So long as you say you hate “Zionists.” As if adding a few syllables makes the hatred more righteous.
I lost many Jewish friends since October 7th — not to death, but to indifference. They fight for everyone, except their own people.
Welcome to the ultimate cognitive dissonance in Israel: exhausted by war, unshaken by purpose.
The Jewish community made New York City, and it cannot allow itself to be harmed by Zohran Mamdani.
The two countries don’t have a ceasefire. Whereas a ceasefire has an enforcement mechanism, Israel and Iran just stopped shooting at each other for tactical reasons. At best this is a truce.
After decades of defending its existence, Israel has redefined its role on the world stage — not as a survivor, but as a sovereign force shaping the future of the Middle East and beyond.
If you're a so-called "anti-Zionist," you're not criticizing a policy or a political stance. You're trying to erase thousands of years of Jewish identity.
Letting Ali Khamenei walk away from this war would be like letting Hitler retreat to Berlin in 1944 with his army bruised, but his ideology intact.
Even in war, even under fire, even when the enemy starves its own, only Israel is endlessly condemned for not doing enough.
While the world fixates on Israel, it is Iran’s terror networks, proxy wars, and nuclear ambitions that pose the greatest threat to regional stability.
Israel would welcome American assistance against the Iranian nuclear regime, but Israelis have what most nations today lack: a rare combination of creativity, resourcefulness, and moral clarity.
This Egyptian philosopher's words inspired al-Qaeda, the Iranian Revolution, and generations of jihadists — all in the name of "freedom."
Israel doesn’t ask America to fight our wars. We ask only for courage, the kind of courage that once made America the leader of the free world, not a hesitant observer of history.
Biblical times don’t demand fearlessness. They demand the courage to step forward anyway. To witness God’s greatness, and to dare to see our own.
They say that to be Jewish is to carry memory, and to be Israeli is to carry responsibility. Naturally, Israel has embraced this burden.
The collapse of Iran’s Islamic Republic, once almost unthinkable, is now a distinct possibility. These are all of the possible outcomes.
Today, a complete Jew is rooted in tradition, but capable of self-defense; fluent in Torah, but unafraid to fight.
The psychological warfare element — that the strike had come from Iranian soil — amplified the attack’s kinetic effects, leaving Tehran paralyzed.
The Talmudic advice of "rise and kill first" does not glorify violence; it acknowledges evil. It does not desire war; it seeks to prevent death in a world that has rarely cared for Jewish survival.
The Israelis understand Iran's jihadist regime for what it truly is, something much of the postmodern West has lost the ability to do and the courage to undertake.
Throughout history, powerful empires have made the same fatal mistake: believing they could erase the Jewish People. The Islamic Republic is next on a long list of Jew-haters who have vanished.
This is not a conflict over two competing national claims. Israel wants to survive, Iran wants to conquer.
For decades, the West has played whack-a-mole with Iran, hoping that diplomacy, sanctions, or deals could contain the threat. But Israel lives in the real world, not in international conference rooms.
Now we need to decide whose side we are on. Now we need to get over our fear and take action.
“This is a democracy. You fight dangerous ideas at the ballot box, not with bans from foreign nations.”
In 10 years, millions will remember Israel as having committed a genocide it didn’t commit — and forget the genocides that actually did.
The holiest site on earth for the Jewish People is not the Western Wall. It's the Temple Mount, in the heart of Jerusalem.
It’s never really been about helping Palestinians; it’s about blaming Jews. Let's not get it twisted.
"Unfortunately, the malign forces — unmatched in human history — threaten to consume Jews once more. However, this time, we are winning. The question is, do we have the will to achieve victory?"
Today's "anti-Zionism" is just yesterday’s antisemitism — with better PR. So much of the world always finds a new excuse to despise the Jews.
Israel doesn’t oppose peace. It opposes suicide. Every nation has the right (and the obligation) to neutralize a threat that has already murdered its civilians and promises to do it again.
The moral software we use to detect antisemitism hasn’t been updated in years. It no longer recognizes the new strains of Jew-hate. That’s what makes it so dangerous.
Welcome to the UN, where Israel is cast as the world's greatest villain, and its executioners get a standing ovation.
What is it about this popularized Hebrew phrase that seems to drive people batsh*t crazy and leads us to disaster?
As the late, great Rabbi Jonathan Sacks said, a nation is held together by a covenant: a shared story, identity, and responsibility. Israel understands this; much of today's West does not.
The truth is France, Canada, and the UK are so morally confused that Israel pays attention only as a political formality.
If you’re going to shout slogans, at least know what you’re talking about. Because peddling lies helps no one, least of all the people you claim to support.
Shavuot, which begins Sunday evening and continues throughout Monday, is the most important Jewish holiday that many Jews never truly celebrate.
Legendary writer John Steinbeck walked Israel’s soil. What he saw stunned him. For better and for worse, very little has changed.
“Hasbara” has become a religion, a ritual we perform to prove to the world that we are “the good Jews.” But “good Jews” are not spared of murder. So stop explaining, stop apologising, stop pleading.
Apparently Jews control everything (even that random cloud that looks like the Israeli flag). Here's our user manual.
After a killer's political delusions of "righteous violence" drove him to murder random Jews on the streets of America, it is clear that the disease of terrorism has metastasized from Right to Left.
A hatred so irrational, so obsessive, and so resistant to facts and history should no longer be treated as mere prejudice. It should be diagnosed.
The Holocaust made Jews sad. October 7th and its aftermath made us angry. Two-thousand years of suppressed Jewish rage ends now.
The "Free Palestine" chant doesn't have to make sense. It only needs to unite all against the symbol of "evil" — the one they declared the barrier to a more "just" world: the Jew.
If your commitment to justice is consistent and honest, then you already know that supporting Israel isn’t extreme. Pretending it’s controversial is.
Today's war dresses itself in "progressive" language, legal briefs, and diplomatic forums — but which remains, at its core, a war against the Jews.
Jewish identity cannot be contingent on outside approval. It must be rooted in self-respect, strength, and knowing that our values are only meaningful when paired with the power to protect them.
Through all this chaos, death, and shock, something keeps coming up for me: the strength and moral character of the Israelis.
Powerful politicians across the West are "fighting" antisemitism with one hand, while feeding it with the other. Sadly, they don't seem to understand the link, and it is now costing lives.
For too many U.S. politicians, activists, and everyday citizens, antisemitism is only condemned when it is perfectly convenient. But Jews are not a political football; we are people.
Israel is not the side that made child death a war strategy. We are the ones trying to stop it, while the world ties our hands and lectures us on the perversion of “morality.”
The fantasy of an Israeli-Palestinian peace process is a comforting lie we told ourselves. We believed in a future they never wanted.
Israeli Jews ask for forgiveness. Diaspora Jews ask for permission. In our post-October 7th world increasingly hostile to Jewish identity, both are necessary.
The post-World War II European war on nationalism has made it a safe space for antisemitism.
According to Jewish law, yeshiva students should not be exempted en masse from military service.
If Israel wants to be known not just for the tiring Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but for its boundless creativity, it might do well to borrow a page or two from Thailand’s cookbook.
When Jews look into the eyes of their haters, they may feel weak, but antisemites are really acknowledging Jewish greatness.
"Let someone else praise you, and not your own mouth; an outsider, and not your own lips." — Proverbs 27:2
After spending decades of time and billions of dollars, October 7th showed us how much this strategy was an utter disaster.
It has massive gas reserves and some of the cheapest electricity prices in the world. The Iranian regime's "civilian" nuclear program is as much of a front as a mafia's chain of pizza parlors.
A familiar pattern has re-emerged: The media revolts, the world unravels, and the Jews absorb the blow.
The phenomenon of “lone soldiers” predates the modern State of Israel. Today, the country is home to an estimated 7,000 of them.
Is anything we experience today unprecedented? Should we be surprised by the obvious rise in antisemitism? Is that really new?
While Israeli analysts debate whether there’s a rift with the United States, the real story is more complex. There’s no rupture, but there is recalibration.
The aftermath of this unprecedented massacre was an important reminder that Judaism isn’t just a religion; it’s a revolution of the spirit.
Welcome to the year 2025, where spiritual leaders help fund terrorists and European bureaucrats hallucinate Israeli Club Meds in the rubble of Hamas bunkers.
Progressive Jews often insist on assessing Judaism through the lens of progressivism, but the reverse could save progressivism from itself.
Prior to the founding of the State of Israel in 1948, there was British Guiana: a Jewish homeland in South America that never happened.
When we bother to notice Jews on the Right as well as the Left, throughout history and across the globe, then antisemitic grand theories fall apart.
Various datasets explain why so many young people despise Jews — and what it says about all of us.
I've long wrestled with my doubt in God. But especially after October 7th, I’ve come to believe that, even if I’m unsure about Him, I completely believe in His people.
When even the great institutions of the UK are more likely to be standing against British Jews than standing alongside them, is it just time for me to pack up and leave?
“Judaism is a living protest against the herd instinct. Ours is the dissenting voice in the conversation of humankind.”
The Druze are the most loyal minority in the Middle East, and Israel is the country that protects them.
Muslim antisemites and their collaborators hijack sympathy as yet another excuse to smear and hate on Jews.
And if you’re Jewish, you’re living a miracle. You weren’t supposed to make it this far.
If you genuinely cared for Palestinian well-being, you would never encourage setting fire to the very land Palestinians also claim indigeneity.
The West loves dead Jews, fears religious Jews, and hates Zionist Jews. No other minority is treated this way.
What’s happening to Israel has also been happening to us. If only we weren’t too blind to see it.
As they say in Israel, Memorial Day reminds us about the cost of having a state, and Holocaust Remembrance Day about the cost of not.
Jewish professors are provoking the next pogrom, and universities are training the next generation of antisemites — with Jewish donor money.
The bludgeoning of Israel with appropriated Jewish trauma is a textbook case of Holocaust envy, in which the singular destruction of European Jewry is softened, relativized, and rendered fungible.
Boycotting Israel is an art form that requires immense effort to maintain your righteousness, while dodging the inconvenient realities of modern life and Jewish history.
Despite claiming to champion women's rights, many leftists now excuse or ignore the brutality of misogynistic regimes like Hamas — so long as it fits their "anti-colonialist" narrative.
This Jewish-themed Broadway musical is not just a tragedy. It's a warning — one many Jews keep ignoring.
The Jews of Medina failed to accept Muhammad as their prophet, and from that point on, fully 17 percent of the Koran is hateful towards the Jews.
Zionism is the Jewish People’s greatest response to the six million Jews systematically murdered and countless more traumatized by the Shoah.
As the next federal election nears, the Conservative Party still remains Canada’s most unquestionably pro-Jewish party, and their policies will be best for Jews among all the parties.
October 7th fundamentally changed the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Our paradigms must change too.
They’ve replaced religion with politics and purpose with performance. Identity has become the altar, tweets are sacred texts, influencers our prophets, and disagreement a form of heresy.
Stop using our grandparents' suffering to justify your politics. Holocaust survivors didn't die to be a social justice hashtag.
Yasser Arafat must be laughing from hell (or paradise with his 72 virgins) as he watches Western civilization destroy its own symbols, while embracing his.
At its best, Judaism never feared questions. It embraced complexity, speculation, the unknown. But in many religious communities today, innovation is suspect and questioning is a threat.
As Israel fights for its survival, much of the world seems to be fighting for its own moral confusion.
If we Jews are too afraid to accept our own government stepping in to enforce our rights, whose violations are incontrovertible, then we learned nothing from our ancestors and our own history.
The Reform Judaism movement, as it exists in much of the West today, is no longer Judaism reforming itself for the modern world. It is crony progressivism with Hebrew subtitles.
At least Israel offers me a point of entry into the political debate that doesn’t require me to disavow my Jewishness.
This is the lesser-known story of how Hamas returned from exile to rule Gaza and execute the October 7th atrocities.
Historians debunk the Exodus, and yet Jews turned it into the most successful piece of fiction ever recorded.
Yes, being Jewish (especially today) can sometimes be or at least feel like a burden. Yet, these are precisely the moments when your connection to our people matters most.
Palantir, a U.S. publicly traded company, sees in Israel a kindred spirit, a nation that embraces the “founder personalities” and “interpersonal friction” — prerequisites for defense innovation.
“Activism” has turned into a witch hunt: less about progress, more about punishment. It’s intimidation dressed up as moral conviction, like demanding nonviolence with a Molotov cocktail in hand.
Our enemies know that they cannot defeat us on the battlefield, so instead they attack our peace of mind.
Incidents like the recent killing of 14 rescue workers in Gaza would be far less likely if Hamas did not routinely commit the war crime of misusing emergency vehicles as taxis.
In America's two-tiered justice system, you get five years in prison for attacking Muslims, but merely probation for attacking Jews.
Israeli kids — raised within a culture of independence, national purpose, and unfiltered Jewish pride — grow up differently.
Anyone who believes concessions will encourage the Palestinians to agree to peace is ignorant of facts and history.
Left-wing political parties and groups across the West claim to be protecting Jews, while advancing an agenda that most Jews oppose.
One Israeli soldier’s legacy — and the lives he saved — offer a powerful glimpse into the quiet, courageous path toward healing.
The first use by Arabs of the name “Palestine” to refer to themselves didn’t occur until the 1960s. The choice of the name is almost comical considering that the Arabic language lacks the letter “P.”
In any honest conversation about the Jewish state, these facts must be front and center.
While I have experienced antisemitism throughout my life, it never infected my dating life like it does now.
Western countries purposely misinterpreted the Holocaust to avoid facing their own guilt. Not much has changed in our post-October 7th world.
Documentaries like "October 8" are important, but they can only really make an impact outside of our echo chambers.
These groups, such as "Palestine Action," utilize the same ugly tactics and ideologies that have defined every major Palestinian terror organization for the past many decades.
"I think that even if there was a Palestinian state, it would fail. It wouldn't work. We Palestinians wouldn't know how to run it."
There is a growing double standard on denying visas for Israelis — while defending visas for Hamas supporters.
Israel’s example suggests that nationalism — healthy, principled nationalism — might not be the problem. It might be the cure.
The world must develop a solution to deal with groups like Hamas. There has to be a better way than an endless cycle of atrocity, bombing, and rebuilding, only to repeat the cycle again.
This is not education. It's the institutionalization of slander, and it pressures Jewish students to redefine — or abandon — their identity to survive.
"Pro-Israel" is exclusively about Jewish sovereignty on the Jews' historical homeland. "Pro-Palestine" isn't really about "Palestine." It's about the resistance, rejection, and destruction of Israel.
Israel can never leave Gaza again without assuming a level of risk which should be obviously unacceptable to any of us.
The Israeli Left’s unwillingness to face the truth is a betrayal that l cannot overlook anymore.
We are living in the twilight of exile. Every living Jew is the inheritor of thousands of years of tradition.
And like the Nazis, they have found the ready victim, the eternal villain and the eternal scapegoat. They have found the Jews.
Their national identity is based solely on hating Jews and destroying Israel. That is their mission statement. If they accomplished their goal, they would have no other purpose.
This peace proposal might seem unlikely or even virtually impossible, revolutionary or counter-culture, and certainly imperfect — yet one that could very well deliver what so many of us want to see.
Peace does not require lies. In fact, accepting these fabricated narratives only strengthens the ideological foundation of those who have long sought to erase Jewish history and identity.
Let’s be real: This was never about “saving Palestine” or the like. “Palestine” is a costume. A personality cult. A fetish.
Hamas declared the most hideous war on Israel and Jewish People, and the world did nothing. Israel can easily deal with Hamas if it is given the freedom to prosecute the war properly.
The Jews do not seek world domination. We do not need to. What we have built is something far more effective.
That the epicenter of modern Jew-hatred over the past year is Columbia University in New York City is no accident.
The Jewish doctor's socio-political views reflect his broader ideological commitment to a segment of the Left that supports and perpetuates anti-Israel, anti-capitalist, and anti-Western narratives.
The famed essayist and mathematical statistician Nassim Taleb called Israel a fragile country. He might be partly right, but Taleb overlooks many factors that make the country uniquely resilient.
The decision to deport Mahmoud Khalil is most remarkable for its grasp of America's spirit and academia at their best.
Here are a few of the many peculiar and often contradictory alliances formed against Israel over the decades.
That's the lesson of Purim, a Jewish holiday celebrated this week to commemorate the saving of the Jews from genocide in ancient Persia.
I hate to break it to you, but Israel isn’t “stolen land.” Every nation was built on war. Here's the history and lessons they won't teach you.
For the last 40 years or so, the West has thought entirely in terms of individual rights and not in terms of collective responsibilities.
The Anti-Israel Propaganda Network includes the usual suspects — Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood, Iran, and Qatar — but it doesn’t end there.
Sometimes Jewish trauma is weaponized against Jews. Other times it's raised as a prop for "social justice." Where is the empathy for actual Jewish persons?
The U.S. recently holding direct talks with Hamas, unprecedented in nature, is yet another example of Westerners making the Israeli-Palestinian conflict worse, not better.
Some 98 percent of reporters cite casualty figures fabricated by Hamas. Only five percent mention Israeli data. Jihadi propaganda has gone global.
Israel is not a cause. It’s a country. It exists so that Jews — real, breathing, imperfect, wonderful Jews — have unapologetic control of our own destiny.
If the Jews of 1898 — who were fleeing persecution in Europe — could push Islam back (which they did), it signified an intolerable theological disaster of Islamic weakness.
Accusing a country of genocide — the gravest crime humanity has defined — has real-world consequences. This isn’t just rhetoric; it’s jet fuel for a global surge in Jew-hate.
American negotiations with Hamas, unprecedented in nature, should infuriate Israelis. But more than that, they should inspire us to rethink what real independence means.
The Jewish People have forgotten how to be a people, but that doesn’t need to last forever.
The emerging Right-wing “love affair” with Israel is no coincidence. It reflects a deep ideological realignment that goes far beyond Israel itself, exposing what the Left has become.
“A people who will persevere in war beyond a certain limit ought to know the consequences.”
Of the many reviews of the newly Oscar-winning documentary “No Other Land,” none of them even hint at the facts. The film is pure propaganda meant to incite people to hate Israel.
Middle East expert Daniel Pipes delivers a profound and piercing reality check: Israel has not won because it has never pursued outright victory.
I propose that those who accuse Zionists of “settler psychosis” actually suffer from “folie antisémite à plusieurs,” an antisemitic group delusional disorder.
The terror group thought it could manipulate history. Now Israel is using Hamas' own tactics to defeat these Islamist barbarians.
With this awakening, again, of antisemitism, I called a survivor of Auschwitz and two death marches at the ripe age of 14. I felt a need to speak with him.
The entire field is centered around attacking Israel — not around studying Palestinians. If Israel did not exist, neither would “Palestinian Studies.”
The words of Yarden Bibas, the recently released Israeli hostage who just buried his wife and two sons, was a profound and painful reflection of what it means to be a Jew. Jews everywhere must listen.
Why in a million years would any Westerner put up with a “religion” that is so barbaric, just to prove how “tolerant” they are?
We watched a husband and father forced to bury his wife and two children, who should have been safe in their home, not torn from it by terrorists. In this war, we have no choice but to win.
The world will be a better place as long as international leaders don't step in the way of Israel finishing off the terror group in Gaza once and for all.
The dithering Europeans must step up if the latest misguided plans for Gaza are to have a chance of succeeding. Do not hold your breath.
In the realm of politics, some leaders transcend the mundane roles of governance and ascend to the status of near-mythic figures.
Last I checked, supporting the mass murder of Jews counts as, well, hate — under pretty much any definition and pretty much anywhere — except, apparently, here.
Don't be surprised by Hamas' Islamic barbarism. Be surprised by your neighbors, colleagues, and friends who excuse it — and then do something about it while you still can.
The real moral corruption is allowing a fantasy national identity known as "Palestinian" to justify perpetual war and genocide.
I have finally embraced this treacherous identity that is so filled with sorrow and tragedy, but also with resilience.
It is not an Israel that watches its children murdered in captivity, while the world debates the “complexity” of terror. It is not an Israel that should ever have had to endure this pain.
The question before Israel is not just how to win a war, but how to do so without breaking the very moral fabric that defines the Jewish state.
The truth is, it’s the liberals rushing to defend Islamists who fail to demonstrate real empathy.
We did not originally think we were “gap year in Israel” people. I need to start there, because this is a story about Israel, and not Bermuda or France.
Shocked at the would-be jihadist nurses? Then you haven't been hanging around universities lately.
As the war between Israel and Hamas hits its 500th day today, the question shifts from the present battlefield to the future: What will the next 500 days look like?
This almost guarantees that Arab proposals for post-war Gaza will be duds in terms of any regional political advancement, even if they would rebuild the Strip.
Indigenous identity is not determined by sociopolitical trends; it is cultivated by history, culture, archaeology, and genetics. By all these measures, the Jews have an uninterrupted claim to Israel.
One party goes to such lengths to protect their children, while the other so readily sacrifices their lives.
It is a culture and civilisation deeply rooted in our land, our relationship with God, and our peoplehood.
The terror group’s attempts to rebrand this moment as a “strategic pause” cannot mask the reality: They are running out of options.
To understand the link between misogyny and antisemitism, we need to look at one of the biggest crisis points in Jewish history — nearly 2,000 years ago.
A terrible slur often made by Palestinians against Israelis, but does the cap fit more accurately the other way?
Inside Hamas' hostage crisis tactics, Israel's strategic response, and the geopolitical implications of U.S. President Donald Trump's ultimatum.
A friendly and slightly comical guide for parents on how to raise proud Zionist children by teaching them confidence, resilience, and the ability to counter misinformation with knowledge and humor.
The only "famine" in Gaza has been suffered by Israeli hostages held captive for 15 months in unimaginable conditions.
“We plan to eliminate the State of Israel and establish a purely Palestinian state. We will make life unbearable for the Jews. ... They will have no choice but to leave.”
If martyrdom is glorified, then Israel's retaliation should, by the Palestinians' own standards, be considered a favor.
“What the Jewish F*ck” is a new series in which we bring you the most outrageous and absurd developments from around the Jewish world.
There’s something intrinsically anti-Jewish about being an "anti-gun" person. We have an obligation to each other, but the anti-gun Jew can’t meet it. That should be a source of shame, not pride.
At the very least, the “Gays for Gaza” would be able to visit the Strip without fearing for their lives at every turn.
Every year, the world mourns the Holocaust, only to turn around and justify new forms of antisemitism. If we can’t recognise its latest disguise, what exactly are we remembering?
October 7th was not just an act of war; it was an attempt to break Israeli morale. Instead, it did the opposite.
“Best we can do is Polish propaganda, graphic rape of survivors, and hyper-fixation on non-Jewish saviors.”
For Israeli Jews, the picture could not be clearer. For Jews outside Israel, this moment ought to serve as a wake-up call to the limits of goodwill and alliance-building.
First, admit that we can't. Second, treat it like a manageable chronic condition, not a curable bug.
In the name of “balance” — a mysterious thing reporters chase, but never seem to find — they have reported as though the democratic State of Israel and the jihadist terror group Hamas are equivalent.
If you can root yourself in reality — and that is what Judaism does — you are inoculated against dangerous ideologies such as “Woke.”
Israelis are not being conditioned to fear Hamas; we are being conditioned to ensure that Hamas, or any group like it, is never again allowed to thrive and embed itself in power.
Israel constantly gets blamed for the so-called "Palestinian plight" — but, in reality, it has little to do with the Jewish state.
We must prove to the world that we meant it when we said “NEVER AGAIN.” If we do not, this will happen again and again and again. Our enemies promised us that.
For many Palestinians, the desire to destroy Israel is stronger than the wish to build their own state. Not only is this bad news for Israel, but it's bad news for the Palestinians too.
If politicians think they can get away with, at best, taking Israel for granted, and at worst, disparaging the Jewish state, without any repercussions, they will do so.
Some so-called "feminists" have become so entrenched in their own confirmation bias — that reason, research, or even a smidge of empathy for someone outside their bubble has become impossible.
The “situation” is not that complicated. The Arabs — who have violated the world’s peace for over a century — have never had to sacrifice anything for peace. And the time has come for that to happen.
The Jews essentially invented liberalism. In recent years, nefarious actors have corrupted it beyond measure.
“What the Jewish F*ck” is a new series in which we bring you the most outrageous and absurd developments from around the Jewish world.
There are four fundamental principles underlying much of the West's technocratic view of war and peace, including the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
That, of course, no one seems to care about because, when it comes to the Jews, ethics and morals fly out the window faster than the ink dries on empty promises.
Historian Richard Landes' book is a must-read for anyone trying to make sense of the mainstream media’s aggressively anti-Jewish and anti-Israel biases.
Why now? What does Lieutenant General Herzi Halevi know that the ordinary public currently does not?
In 2024, my brother’s home was vandalised with “Free Gaza” and “Jews kill babies” scrawled across his car window. Antisemitism in Australia is spreading like wildfire and becoming the norm.
Israel's hostage-ceasefire deal with Hamas is necessary but unendurable. It is what Israel does from here that really matters.
Israel is uniquely burdened with trading its security for its citizens' lives, forced into lopsided hostage deals that no other nation would tolerate.
Dive into the murky multi-dimensional politics surrounding the Israel-Hamas deal, including domestic Israeli politics, Palestinian politics in Gaza and the West Bank, and international politics.
"I fear that Israel may have bought itself a great many problems for the future, but pessimists are not always right, even in the Middle East."
Despite decades of failed diplomacy and billions in international aid, the Palestinian Authority remains entrenched in corruption, extremism, and its refusal to recognize Israel's right to exist.
From diverse perspectives to emotional insights, our guest writers share their thoughts on the implications and impact of this week's Israel-Hamas deal.
The outgoing U.S. secretary of state's plan is less a roadmap to peace and more a patchwork of impractical ideas that fail to account for the complexities of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
While mass casualties of war in Gaza are absolutely devastating, I think it’s easier to view pictures of war than it is to view video footage of sadistic evil.
There are no shortage of moral, strategic, and societal challenges of Israel negotiating a hostage deal with Hamas, balancing the urgency of saving lives with security concerns and regional stability.
Jews rose up from disenfranchisement but never forgot where they came from. It took a betrayal of epic proportions to separate them from the liberal movement and the world may never be the same again.
Imagine if the Black Lives Matter movement had framed its messaging around “All Lives Matter.” Such an approach would have been seen — rightly — as dismissive and counterproductive.
History matters. And perhaps, by understanding it better, we can all help move closer to a peaceful reality that has eluded us for far too long.
Israel is forced to walk a razor-thin line between its ethical imperatives and strategic interests.
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict stands as a unique tapestry of history, faith, and identity — one that defies easy categorization.
The unchecked spread of antisemitic narratives under the guise of academic freedom, diversity initiatives, and political activism signals a dangerous shift.
The international news media talk in codes that allow them to defame Israel while pretending to cover the Israeli-Palestinian conflict fairly. They have fooled many. It is time to crack the code.
While Polish support for Ukraine has been exceptional since day one, the parallels between what Ukraine and Israel are facing seem to have escaped Polish leaders.
Could it be that Israel is so misunderstood because the "culture codes" other people have for Israel do not match the code Israelis have for our country?
Yes, Ashkenazi Jews are indigenous to the Middle East. Take your historical revisionism someplace else.
A critical examination of how so-called "humanitarian" organizations are entangled with terror groups throughout the Middle East — proving systemic complicity in their opposition to the Jewish state.
Feelings exist in the mind, ideologies manifest in the real world. This is why the distinction matters.
The modern State of Israel is an example of auto-decolonization, not settler colonialism.
It has been one tough year for Israel, but 2024 has also been one of extraordinary achievements for the Jewish state. It proves that good things happen when Israel is strong.
And why it is so important to the Middle East, even as their story is continuously buried by mainstream Western media.
Nothing is scarier than a Maccabee — and this holiday is neither politically correct nor "woke."
Healing is heroic. We ought to be inspired by the courage and bravery of these young women.
By amplifying selective narratives, the Vatican is distorting the realities of war and reinforcing dangerous biases that undermine efforts toward genuine peace.
Unless we actively fight back, we are at risk of losing the vital Diaspora culture that has made the West hotbeds of innovative Jewish creativity during the last hundred years.
This is the bitter truth about Arab hatred of Jews and how to model anti-Israeli sentiment.
If the Democrats do consult the Torah, they will realize — right at the beginning — something that may surprise them: They should be feeling great right now.
And they are exposing the "genocide" blood libel against Israel precisely for what it is.
Jews make up 0.2 percent of the world's population, but have won about 22 percent of Nobel Prizes. What explains this?
Israel doesn’t need my worry; it needs my solidarity, my support, and my love. It needs me to celebrate its successes, and to believe in its capacity for resilience and renewal.
Citizens should be encouraged to remember the purpose of free speech, namely the improvement of public policy and the flourishing of every human being.
If the Israeli Left fails to seize this moment, it will find itself in the dustbin of history.
From cultural shifts to political reckonings, this year proved that the Jewish experience continues to evolve in surprising and thought-provoking ways.
While those on the Far-Right tend to like Jews more if they are seen as white, the Far-Left likes them less if they are seen as white.
With all due respect, there is a certain difference between injustices, as horrible as they are — committed years ago — and a crowd of people threatening my personal family’s safety today.
Germans were not, even retrospectively, opposed to the national project embodied by the Nazi government. On the key issue, surveys of Germans after World War II showed that 40 percent remained antisemites.
Some Jews have been on the liberal reservation so long that they openly celebrate people who punch them in the face — and expect the rest of us to do the same.
As history’s wounds fester, a bold Jewish movement emerges, transforming pain into powerful defiance against hate and death.
The collapse of Syria's Assad regime is already reshaping the Middle East, from Israel's high-stakes military maneuvers to emerging alliances and power struggles that could redefine the region.
The more antisemitic you are, the more you are sure the Jews are lording their superiority over you, the more you hate them, and the more antisemitic you become.
Amongst Jews there is a saying: "The pessimists fled, and the optimists stayed behind."
The notion of a “chosen people” is divisive, literally. But when understood in full context it just might help bring us together.
Few seem to know about the Palestinian Authority's vast illegal settlement program in Judea and Samaria (also known as the West Bank) and the strategy behind it.
“Just one arson attack,” some might say. “Not indicative of a broader trend.” But this would be a lie, a self-soothing fiction.
Only through empathy and intellectual honesty can the world begin to grasp why Jews so fiercely defend and cherish our homeland.
Like so many Jews since October 7th, I am not okay. I smile. I laugh. I work. I write. But I’m faking it. Underneath all of it, I am anxious, scared, heartbroken for the hostages and their families.
The UK, Canada, and Australia were once the world's most tolerant multicultural societies. Now they are hotbeds of antisemitism. It spells major decline for these nations, not just for their Jews.
A military's goal should not be to win a theoretical contest of virtue. It should be to win the war it is forced to fight — as humanely as possible but, ultimately, as decisively as necessary.
Comparing the war in Gaza to the Holocaust is morally wrong, historically inaccurate, and horrifically dangerous. Those who do have fallen prey to Hamas propaganda, similar to Nazi pseudoscience.
This idea of a high-tech, low-grunt army came from the "woke" universe, and this whole disaster goes to show how much damage can be done by bad ideas, and how hard it is to reverse their effect.
“Unless being a Jew is of absolute significance, how can we justify the ultimate price which our people was often forced to pay throughout its history?”
Reducing Israel to a binary stance is not just reductive; it is the intellectual equivalent of a fast-food meal: satisfying in the moment, but devoid of any real substance.
This was Israel’s second War of Independence, not from the British, but from all the world’s other nations.
As for the next bout? Israel will be ready, as always, long before its adversaries realize the game has changed yet again. But what about the rest of us?
I now realize what it was like to be my ancestors, feeling public opinion building against the Jews, powerless to stop it. We thought we were free, but maybe we have always lived in the "shtetl."
How many dead Palestinians would be acceptable? The honest answer is, of course, none — and this question is not really a question. It is a trap.
The 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran offers a great deal of lessons for contemplating today's far-Left "Woke" movement.
In blessed memory of Rabbi Zvi Kogan, who was kidnapped and murdered in the United Arab Emirates this past weekend. That could have been any one of us Jews.
Here is a taxonomy of today's antisemites, so you do not confuse the Jihadist with the Social Media Ignoramus and make a fool of yourself.
When I was growing up, Canada seemed like an open and liberal society where Jews could feel at home. Today, this is no longer the case. Most Canadians of my generation probably agree.
The leftist imagination of pre-state Israel is one in which Jews were the only immigrants into Ottoman-era and then British-era Palestine; everyone else already lived there. This is patently false.
Many people are insisting that only 21 percent of U.S. Jews voted for Donald Trump and the Republicans. I dove into the data and realized that they are deliberately misleading us.
The irony, as history and contemporary cases reveal, is that lawfare often generates outcomes precisely opposite to its intentions.
Countless Jews have stood up for others throughout history. Now it is your turn to stand with us.
Focusing solely on the Israeli settler movement, while ignoring other pertinent realities, is not just intellectually lazy. It is a double standard creatively disguised as antisemitism.
If there are no consequences for starting and losing a war, is it any wonder why people start wars so often?
As a makeshift sign I recently saw in Israel said: "Tolerating antisemitism is antisemitism."
"Here, people do not ask you if you are Jewish — they presume it, and that assumption becomes a powerful experience."
In the West, where women are freer than anywhere else in the world, thanks to long years of fighting for that freedom, it is shocking that women want to go backwards to support anti-women oppression.
The results of last week's weighty U.S. election for the White House are irrelevant to Jews in America. And the rest of Diaspora Jewry ought to take notice.
This is not just a whine about the state of journalism and media bias. The stakes are incredibly high in terms of the war itself and the rise in antisemitism globally.
The Jewish story of immigration serves as a model often neglected by more recent immigrants.
"Good" liberal Jews genuinely feel compassion for those killed and displaced on both sides. They want peace. But they are also embarrassed.
It is time we stopped conflating propaganda operatives with journalists. If we are going to call out Israel for “attacking the press,” let’s make sure it is actually the press we are talking about.
The reality of this war, which Israel did not start, can only be understood at truly the most personal levels.
When you shoot yourself in the foot, do you blame the gun — or do you blame the person who pulled the trigger?
We should stand with the Jewish People today — not because tomorrow may be too late, but because today is as bad as it should have to get.
We, the Jewish People, are the 'chutzpah' people. We have stood against the mightiest of empires and outlived them all. We will outlive these troubles too, and so can you.
Jew-hatred, both old and rebranded, should have no place within a movement that preaches justice and equality. Yet it has been allowed to thrive under new disguises.
Like Hamas prioritizes killing Israelis rather than prosperity for Gazans, the Muslims of British Columbia ignore practical socioeconomic factors and vote solely based on their anti-Jewish stance.
Kamala Harris sidestepped a proudly Jewish politician to be her vice president — and it cost her and the Democrats a pivotal U.S. election.
This is the expected outcome of the intellectual epidemic plaguing the new Left, where narratives have replaced truth and reality has become irrelevant.
On Tuesday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu relieved Yoav Gallant of his duties — in the midst of Israel's seven-front war.
I used to think that Jews did not need a homeland. Now it is clear to me that they have no real allies.
In a world where “anti-Zionists” try to obnoxiously recruit more folks to their so-called cause, they are also creating a group just as, if not more, powerful: “anti-Palestinians.”
In our post-October 7th world, we must diversify how the world sees the Jewish People and our homeland, Israel, so that the Jewish experience is not reduced to political headlines and stereotypes.
While the sale of aristocratic land was not widespread throughout the Ottoman Empire, the amount of land sold in the Palestine region was exceptional.
Progressives might call their enemies Nazis, but now they are acting very much like Nazis themselves. Nothing kills the saint faster than hypocrisy.
Israelis’ indifference to outside judgment is not arrogance. It is something much more interesting.
Enjoy this brief history of the many empires that the Jewish People has seen off — and why Israel's modern-day Islamist enemies are destined to join them in historical ignominy.
Israelis vote primarily based on which party best represents their priorities and beliefs, making the election process a direct expression of policy preference, as opposed to a contest of personality.
Both Arab and Muslim states want nothing to do with Palestinian immigrants or refugees. In the West, we should pay attention to why that is.
Comparing the former U.S. president to Hitler is very disrespectful to Nazi Germany's millions of victims and minimizes the horrific, unprecedented crimes that Hitler encouraged and committed.
Their postcolonial and neo-Marxist perspective makes the pro-Israel retort of "Hamas would throw you off a building" ineffective and exacerbates the Jewish state's predicament.
Recognizing and validating anxieties concerning antisemitism is not a concession to fear, but rather a call to action.
Unfortunately, Islam has been less flexible than Christianity or Judaism in adapting to modernity.
When we Jews are resilient, when we fiercely defend ourselves, the world’s comforting narrative of helpless Jews to pity, to memorialize — but not to respect — falls apart.
In addition to failing to prevent genocide, now the "Genocide Convention" is actually a source of incitement. Jews are most likely to pay the price.
Why does everything feel worse? Simple: The world has gotten better at telling you it is falling apart.
The State of Israel and Jewish People must prepare for this ahead of time. Our very existence in the future could very well depend on it.
It is easy to target Israel because that is the fashionable cause among those who enjoy adding to their ever-expanding collection of luxury beliefs.
October 7th exposed a harsh reality: We need a significant culture shift across Jewish organizations of all kinds.
I do not care for telling people how to vote and charging people with political stupidity is very unlikely to persuade them, but American Jews must sit down and seriously think about their vote.
I believe we must recalibrate our Jewish senses and focus on three core tenets that will lead to a stronger, safer, and more enduring Jewish People.
Though the power of narrative to drive meaningful action is plain, so is the power of narrative to drive immoral action.
They do not foster peace, do not promote justice, and do not advance the causes of human rights and liberation. Instead, they hinder constructive dialogue and resolution, harming all parties involved.
Being “anti-Zionist” is the fashionable and politically correct opinion to hold in almost all of the West's creative communities at the moment.
If we truly cared about civilian casualties, we should proactively work to defeat those who instigate and celebrate them.
The history of Jews in Islam, and with 25 percent of today's world identifying as Muslim, unequivocally inform the obvious need for a Jewish state.
Despite everything that drives me away from Republicans, there is more that’s drawing me toward them as a Jewish American and dual U.S.-Israeli citizen in 2024.
The images and testimonies that emerged from Hamas’ October 7th, 2023 attacks bear a chilling resemblance to the massacre of one of the world’s most ancient Jewish communities in 1929.
“These are people who have taken an oath to a cult and have had to remake themselves in the image of the cult. If they follow ‘Palestine’ they must give up their soul.”
Some intellectuals argue that the conflict is not really about land — and they are wrong. This conflict is precisely about the fact that two objects cannot occupy the same space at the same time.
“Palestine” is just a smokescreen for Iran and its proxies, an effective platform for undermining the liberal democratic world.
The corrupted and maligned United Nations has become a key player in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, serving entities and people who have no interest in seeing it resolved.
From "you cannot defeat Hamas because it is an idea" to "disproportionate" Israeli force, nothing quite matches the sheer idiocy of the arguments people trot out against the State of Israel.
Jews and Israelis having different ideas in a liberal democracy is not a sign of menacing division. It is the opposite: a sign of Jewish cultural and intellectual health.
Their brutality is not a display of strength, but a sign of growing desperation, humanitarian bankruptcy, and profound ignorance of the civilized world's resilience and unity.
A rabbi's insights as we approach Yom Kippur, a period of atonement and the holiest day for Jews.
Many Americans effectively think that the Jewish state is their 51st state and, therefore, Americans are free to impose whatever they want on Israel — no questions asked. Thanks, but no thanks.
The organization "Jewish Voice for Peace" rejoices in Jewish deaths, celebrates Jewish murderers, and then expects to be welcomed into the Jewish community with open arms.
What happened to Lebanon? In two words: radical Islam. In three words: Palestinians and radical Islam. The U.S. has also played a significant role in the wreck, as has the abominable Iranian regime.
I am struggling to see any good in the “pro-Palestine” “woke” “activist” crowd anymore.
The long history of Jews who loathed their brethren may help us understand those who do so today.
It is commonly believed that the Romans changed Judea’s name (which literally means “Place of the Jews”) as a way of severing the Jewish connection to the land.
A better way to achieve peace, which is what the Geneva Conventions and United Nations were supposedly set up to do, is to focus not on “proportionality” but on deterrence.
Israel has the Iranians on the ropes, and the optimal time to deliver its knockout punch is approaching. Ultimately, this could lead to elusive stability and a more promising future for the region.
According to the American playbook, Israel should prioritize the comfort of its enemies over the safety of its own citizens.
We (Israelis) are not responsible for their choices. We are only responsible for how we respond to their behaviors.
A recent Hebrew-language report revealed that Israel's greatest strength — its mind-bending innovation — appeared to be its greatest weakness in the run-up to October 7th.
The world hates us far more than we will accept. And it does not at all matter. This is not a popularity contest. Let it go.
Jihadists are infatuated with martyrdom. Israel is just giving them a fast-pass to their deepest desires.
To be honest, I am still not sure why so many people insist on having an opinion about a conflict that has nothing to do with them, but I guess "everyone is entitled to their own opinion."
Warning: This piece contains “bad language.” After 2,000 years some things need to be said.
The Jewish state has turned the unbelievable debacle of October 7th into an impending victory in what will eventually become known as the First Israeli-Iranian War.
Diaspora Jews should not deny their natural sympathies and, in some ways, their natural interests. But they must find the strength to face unpleasant facts about unrestricted immigration in the West.
Instead of gratitude, Israelis are often met with condemnation, scrutinized under a microscope of hypocrisy — even though we embody the spirit of defiance against unhinged anti-Western violence.
The terror group secured its greatest propaganda victory in its war against Israel when it took the simple but effective decision not to publicize the deaths of its combatants.
When we raise kids unaccustomed to facing anything on their own — including antisemitism — the Jewish People are threatened.
This is what it's like to live in Haifa as tensions and military operations between Israel and Hezbollah have significantly increased during the last few days.
Understanding Zionism's key terms can provide deeper insight into its principles, goals, and challenges.
Antisemitism, racial hierarchy, violence, and an alliance with radical Islam have seized the commanding heights of the "progressive" movement.
Iran and Qatar (and the Jihadist proxies they support across the Middle East and North Africa) understand something: An all-out war against Israel will doom them to the dustbins of history.
Too much journalism today begins with an ideological or political point of view already in place. Readers deserve journalism that begins with a blank slate, a mission of open exploration.
“The ultimate purpose of debate is not to produce consensus. It’s to promote critical thinking.”
Auschwitz was not meant to forge alliances between its survivors. Then came October 7th, perhaps the first time in Jewish history when people en masse risked their lives to save other Jews.
By properly going after Hezbollah in Lebanon and Syria, the Israelis will be inviting a bonafide six-front war on themselves — and that does not include Iran. But the price for not is even greater.
In a battle of civilizations, Israel is fighting to show that a free and decent society can defend itself against barbarians who have virtually all the cards stacked in their favor.
The UN seems to be blaming Israel for the organization's own failures, a classic antisemitic ploy.
One cannot accept the Palestinian narrative without admitting the core destructive aim at its heart.
Tuesday's developments — a foiled assassination attempt and hundreds of Hezbollah pagers simultaneously exploding across Lebanon and Syria — are among a long list of remarkable Israeli operations.
Moses urged his congregation and its descendants to choose life and good over death and evil, that they may live and prosper and dwell in the land. His teachings are as relevant as ever.
What poses an enormous threat to Israel and the greater Western world is the complete and utter hypocrisy disguised as "liberalism" — what I call "fraudulent liberalism."
Historically there were no accurate warnings in advance of catastrophes. Only vague prophecies about human imperfections.
Much less has been reported in international media about the Israel-Hezbollah portion of this conflict. Soon, seemingly, it will replace the Israel-Hamas war as the Middle East's major conflict.
No need to bother with facts or historical truths — why would you when you have a ready-made comparison to 20th-century South Africa?
The combination of a morally confused society, foreign propaganda, and social isolation has created a toxic environment in which extremism thrives.
The main Israeli security concept, the security triangle, includes three pillars: deterrence, intelligence warning, and battlefield decision.
Again, you are tasked with answering the poignant question: Do you hate us Jews more than you love yourselves?
We are often our own worst enemies, seeking to find favor with majority fashions or ideologies, while at the same time, we face campaigns from the outside to denigrate and disenfranchise Jews.
“They don’t want to talk about the conflict. They want to talk about investments, business, and economic opportunities, bilateral relations between Israel and their countries.”
The success of the Zionist project has placed Jews — both within and outside of Israel — in complex and oftentimes fraught positions.
The Jewish state has repeatedly conceded territory. The only result was more terrorism and more attacks on its citizens.
Trauma is an invisible force that shapes the way we live, the way we love, and the way we make sense of the world.
The fact that some Israelis have now descended into parroting pro-Hamas propaganda is shameful and an indication of how insidious and successful Hamas has truly been.
To defy the obscene assault on truth by many Palestinians and their morally depraved supporters, let's get back to the lost art of fact-finding, Israeli style.
Avoiding accountability is the Palestinian national trait, to the extent one can call a cluster of Islamist terrorists a nation. And the broader "international community" enables this. It must stop.
It is time we Jews cut through the crap. To hell with being “accepted” and “acceptable.”
Believe women? Nope. An organized campaign is afoot to undermine the realities of targeted violence against Jewish women on October 7th.
European political and media establishments sell out women, Jews, gays, and democratic principles in general — all to pacify radical Islamists and perpetuate the illusion of multicultural harmony.
Democratic Party presidential nominee (and current U.S. Vice President) Kamala Harris' Israel policy sounds reasonable — but is carefully worded code for far-leftist and Islamist ears.
From idealism to realism, there are a multitude of viewpoints about the Israeli hostages, and all of them are equally valid.
“I want to dedicate my acceptance of this award to the people of Israel who in the face of death, choose life.”
Defense and deterrence are not one in the same. If Israel is to survive long-term, it must restore its all-important doctrine of uninhibited deterrence, no holds barred.
How did our open-minded, progressive kids come to stand side by side at protests and encampments with those condoning terrorism, murder, kidnapping, torture, and rape?
The terror group is manipulating the Israeli public to pressure its government to bend to Hamas' demands as part of a ceasefire-for-hostages deal. It is psychological warfare at its finest.
Progressives have made “Palestine” so central to their worldview and activism that they ignore every other issue on Earth.
In our post-October 7th world, the need for Jewish diversity has never been more crucial.
The two-state solution is an ignorant idea because it will not afford Israel security, not bring peace, and not liberate Palestinians from dictatorship. It fails on all counts.
“Once we are not economically dependent on them, the partnership can flourish on its own merits.”
We cannot be expected to contribute to the general good at the cost of our committing collective suicide.
When you apply the opposite to “pro-Palestinian” sayings, they always seem to make a lot more sense.
When it comes to a broad and detailed analysis of antisemitism, the late Robert Wistrich was in a league of his own.
The vast majority of Israelis on the Right-wing spectrum are there as a matter of practicality, of survival.
First a bookstore employee looked into my background and opted to shut down our scheduled event. Then I got a flood of eye-opening phone calls.
For those who are so concerned about their countries funding initiatives abroad, maybe they should start by telling their governments to end corrupted foreign aid to the Palestinian Territories.
It would be a major mistake to assume that political leaders with Jewish family members will automatically be pro-Israel and good for Jews in their country. Their policies and decency must be tested.
By preemptively attacking Hezbollah today, Israel likely prevented a far more devastating Hezbollah attack and thus an all-out war. Now it is time to apply the same working logic to Iran.
Only a fundamentally unserious person could consider the two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict a serious policy.
Arab and Palestinian leaders have been explicitly and openly supporting anti-Israel, anti-Jewish, and anti-Zionist positions for many decades. When will more people listen?
In Western countries, we often group religions together, but this is a monumental mistake — because all religions are not “created” equally.
The obsession with Israel and the Palestinians allows actual genocides, ethnic cleansings, and other crises across the world to go ignored.
If we truly want to return as many of the hostages as possible and prevent more October 7th-like attacks in the future, a ceasefire is the last thing we need.
“The real significance of this war is that it is for you as well as for us, and not only for the Jewish People but for protecting the free world.”
Jew-haters are extorting U.S. voters and the Democratic Party to cower to their un-American demands. And it seems to be working. Jews in the U.S. must take notice and quickly change our tactics.
The row in Australia about taking refugees from Gaza is going to play out across the West. The level of denialism about Islamism and the threat it poses is extraordinary. Australians should fret.
Subscribers to Zionism are, for no good reason, made to feel dirty, defective, and controversial. Now more than ever, we must reclaim the term and — more importantly — its meaning, value, and purpose.
No other country is expected to even remotely come close to living up to the expectations and judgments that plague Israel for no other reason than the fact that it is a Jewish state. Keyword: Jewish.
Why is Whole Foods Market, a subsidiary of Amazon, allowing hecklers just outside of their stores who are championing a make-believe "cause" that directly funds Islamist, genocidal terrorism?
Israeli settlements habitually grab headlines, while the mainstream media never show the Palestinians' outrageous illegal construction over ancient Jewish archaeological sites in Judea and Samaria.
Deterrence does not work when sitting across the table from antisemitic, genocidal, death-cult terrorist organizations. But the Israelis are negotiating as if it does.
The country is a microcosm for the Western world increasingly becoming a joke — a well-deserved one — and Israel would benefit from keeping its distance.
Equating antisemitism with Islamophobia is a tactic designed to conflate the victims and perpetrators of racism and reduce antisemitism to just another form of bigotry.
President Joe Biden’s team is, in effect, representing Hamas at ceasefire negotiations. Meanwhile, Israel is represented by its lonesome self, as America lies about its "ironclad" support for Israel.
According to one very experienced American political pundit, who is not Jewish but is a Democrat, “antisemitism has become marbled into the Democratic Party.”
Some Jews believe it is permissible to visit and pray at the Muslims' Temple Mount in Jerusalem, while others do not. This is the backstory.
Based on much evidence, Israel is clobbering Hamas, Hezbollah, and even the Islamic Iran of Republic — for the betterment of the Western world. One day, more of the West will thank us.
Since the reestablishment of Israel in 1948, Jews know that they can mourn in relative peace, because they now live in the reconstitution of their third commonwealth after 2,000 years of exile.
"Don't" has been one of the U.S. president's favorite words. If only he would actually walk the walk.
Arguably the most successful “pro-Palestinian” strategy, the BDS movement spells disaster — for Palestinians.
Many blame Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for Israel's handling of this war. The reality is that most people do not understand how peace in the Middle East is actually achieved.
Israel could beat Hamas' ideology with the right international help. Too bad the Western world is an enabler that does not understand Islamism and has the spinal fortitude of a jellyfish.
A large swath of people are engulfed by the illusion that "Palestine" is a lot more important than it actually is.
Especially after October 7th, is the time to recall that the enemies we Jews face — in Israel and elsewhere — are profoundly influenced by our enemies from the darkest chapter in Jewish history.
Israel, with the aid of its regional allies, must start taking a significantly more aggressive posture against the Iranian regime — on Iranian soil — to create a safer, more stable, less war-torn Middle East.
Blinken, Biden, and other Western leaders are deceiving us. As long as Iran and its proxies are enabled, no less empowered, the battles might temporarily end — but the war will continue to rage on.
Ideas can no longer be challenged, since every course of study has begun to embed an ideology that is working to divide people and demonize select groups, like us Jews.
Now it is time to dismantle the Jihadist regime in Iran and its nefarious nuclear program, while this option is still plausible.
Hezbollah's worsening attacks on northern Israel show U.S. defense credibility has reached a nadir. Frankly, it is pathetic. Israel bears some responsibility, too.
It is a strategy that provides Palestinian leaders with a cover for their rampant kleptocracy, plus an easy-to-sell narrative that nefariously generates billions of dollars in international aid.
“We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere.”
Judging the Jewish state as if it was a quintessential member of "the West" only puts unrealistic and misguided expectations on Israelis and, by extension, the Jewish People.
A "moderate" Islamist is like a married bachelor, something that cannot exist in any possible world — except, it seems, in the world of mainstream news media.
What too many people do not understand is that historical associations of Jews with blood are among the most ancient and pernicious ideas in Western civilization.
Since World War Two, Israel has probably assassinated more people than any other country in the Western world — and there is nothing wrong with that.
Neither Donald Trump nor Kamala Harris is driven by an excess of love for the Jewish state — and antisemitism plagues both of their parties.
By acknowledging and appreciating this trauma, we can begin to realize the extraordinary Palestinian-led PR trick that has cast Israel as the “Goliath” in the Middle East.
It seems to me that the time has come to put an end to all the stories of the "poor Palestinians."
Far-Right Israelis want the Jewish state to have sovereignty over Gaza and Judea and Samaria (aka the West Bank). They think this is the path to security and peace. It is worth analyzing their case.
When children die in Gaza, the world becomes a collective Palestinian parent. But when children are killed in Israel, folks tend to respond with a strange mix of justification and silence.
This is a guest essay written by Pat Johnson, including 15 things to consider about antisemitism and “anti-Zionism.”
For centuries, the role and standing of Jews in the world has been given symbolic status well beyond their numbers or actual importance, and this has often revolved around questions of freedom.
The alliance between the “progressive” Left and Arab/Muslim antisemites is now a formidable portion of the Democratic Party — and electing Harris as the 47th U.S. president would make it even worse.
No one can deny that there have been tremendous tragedies in this war, but anyone who places the blame on Israel when Hamas has been planning this war for a decade is either foolish or antisemitic.
If you would deny your own people the same right that you would fight for on behalf of others, well, that is an act of self-sabotage that is more of a you problem than an Israel problem.
The international community is trapped in binary thinking that equates a two-state solution with supporting the Palestinians and opposing it as being against them. This is senseless.
The dehumanization of politicians and their supporters distorts society's ability to deal with sociopolitical conflicts and divisions.
“Pro-Palestinian” is like the term “family values” in the 1980s and 1990s. It sounds harmless. But in reality, it is not.
In a world where entities do not come close to agreeing on the so-called “rules of the game,” international law cannot be valid. Indeed, it is not.
Anyone who wishes to see a stable and safe Middle East needs to stand against Iran’s axis of evil, and support Israel’s fight against Iran and its proxies — in Yemen, in Gaza, in Lebanon, everywhere.
Dr. Tal Becker, a would-be peace maker and advocate of power, has an urgent message for Jews across the world.
Israel and the Jewish world are filled with contradictions, which is perfectly okay. Holding space for opposites allows us to embrace the complexity of our human experience.
The Palestinians are trying to weasel their way out of their Oslo Accords responsibilities via the quasi-legal entity known as the International Court of Justice.
The presence of antisemitism in these movements — even a hint of it that is left unchallenged — undermines everything progressives and liberals do on every other issue.
Actually, the more accurate question is: What if Palestinians saw Israeli lives as equal?
The Palestinian Territories have dismal economies that barely function, yet many of their leaders, administrators, and supporters flaunt lavish lives of sheikhs. How is this the case?
Generally, journalistic standards have been in significant, exponential decline. Dishonesty about coverage of the Israel-Hamas-Hezbollah war shows how bad it has become.
If you are looking for a black-and-white scope through which to judge Israel's prime minister, you won't find it here. Politics lives in the gray, and this situation is no different.
The political hypocrisy is pungent and completely unproductive to building a better country, both in the United States and Israel.
Things are getting weird. Israel is aligning with the European Far-Right and its Sunni Arab neighbors. The global political order is shifting — and the Jewish state must tread carefully.
To end a particular situation you have to find out what is causing it and then remove the cause.
While many Democrats are truly well-intentioned, their foreign policies and general views of other countries are typically more aligned with idealism that is irrelevant in the Middle East.
When we accurately view the Western “pro-Palestine” movement not as a serious campaign for justice, but rather as a masturbatory exercise in virtue exhibitionism, the pieces begin to click into place.
We know who stands a chance to benefit from the much-talked about "permanent ceasefire" deal between Israel, Hamas, and Hezbollah — and it sure as heck ain't Israel.
While Israel’s story is indeed remarkable, the over-romanticism often overshadows its complex realities on the ground.
“The artist and curators of the Israeli pavilion will open the exhibition when a ceasefire and hostage release agreement is reached.”
Israel must not, under any circumstances, acquiesce to the West’s delusional, corrupted, conceited approach to the Israel-Hamas-Hezbollah war and a potential hostage deal.
The word "apology" has two very different meanings. I prefer the old-school one, if any, when it comes to my undying support for Israel and the Jewish People.
No other country or group would be able to get away with the Palestinians’ (unfathomably abhorrent) conduct.
Hezbollah will not accept a ceasefire unless Hamas does. Hamas will not agree to a ceasefire. Hence, Israel will go to war against Hezbollah.
Since the Hamas-led atrocities in Israel, I have been on an emotional and psychological rollercoaster like many others across the world. Here are some of the ups and downs.
While making assumptions sometimes makes people feel good in the moment, they don’t say for no reason: “Assuming makes an ass out of you and me.”
Against the backdrop of a potential hostage and ceasefire deal with Hamas, the Jewish state would be wisest to resist international pressure to choose an illusion of "peace" over existential security.
“If you came here to survive, you’re in the wrong place. We’re not surviving, we’re cultivating.”
Jews in America will be the first to feel the adverse effects, but the buck will not stop with them. All non-Muslim Americans should be terrified — because the takeover has already begun.
It is time to question why so many people raised in Reform Judaism become “anti-Zionists” and why many Reform Jewish spaces tolerate antisemitic rhetoric.
Trying to do so enables their destructive behaviors and make-believe narratives, which only pushes plausible solutions to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict further away.
The Labour Party is poised to win the UK election this week. Soon-to-be Prime Minister Keir Starmer may claim to have purged his party of antisemitism, but British Jews remain worried. Rightly so.
No one seems to care or mention that it would not be a democracy. Indeed, quite the opposite.
The Democratic Party, at least under President Joe Biden, is not what they brand themselves to be. Jewish Democrats and other such Americans ought to urgently take notice.
Codifying so-called "Anti-Palestinian Racism" in Canada is harming Jewish Canadians and infringing on our rights, liberties, and safety.
There are "Jewish Israelis" and then there are "Israeli Jews." How each Israeli defines themselves according to this paradigm determines how they perceive the Jewish state and its conflicts (generally speaking, of course).
If your principles are killing the very people you claim to be advocating for, maybe water down the wine.
Claims that Israel is colonialist and imperialist are unabridged nonsense. A dictionary and a map are all that is needed to prove it. Too bad that both seem to be in short supply.
If you bitch about all the “women and children” in Gaza but don’t have much to say about the women and children in Israel, then you are not a humanitarian, apolitical organization.
What’s going on is the constant blurring of truths to fit one narrative — as has always been when it comes to Israel — and it is exhausting.
Thousands of people who have made donations to “the Palestinians” are effectively funding Palestinian terrorist organizations.
In pre-Holocaust Europe, Jews were told to go back to “Palestine.” Now we’re being told to get out of “Palestine.” Which one is it, exactly?
Jews are in a "competition" of victimhood. But they didn’t want it and they didn’t start it.
Of course it can. The terror group is not just some amorphous concept that solely exists in the mind.
The West has convinced itself, against all evidence, that the Palestinians are fighting for their own state — and that creating one will bring peace. Spoiler: It won't.
The ancient Chinese taught us: “Know your enemy.” Too bad many of us have not been listening.
Indeed, military aid is provided as a means of leverage. Always has been and always will be.
In the Arab-mentality landscape of the Middle East, weakness is an invitation to be more aggressive. It would be wise for Israel to seize the opportunity.
Former U.S. President Barack Obama's foreign policies in the Middle East are one of the reasons why the region is currently inflamed — and on the verge of a greater war.
Perpetuating this conflict, rather than solving it, is in the self-interest of "White Saviors." Without dead Palestinians, their entire purpose in life would disappear.
You cannot defeat terrorists by playing your game. You defeat them by playing their game — better than them — while being unapologetic about it.
The United Nations is a racist and corrupt institution that is beyond reform. Israel should ask itself if it wants to remain part of it. Probably not.
Dozens of terms have been grossly misused by media professionals, pundits, politicians, and social media types throughout the Israel-Hamas war, notably these eleven.
Many people confuse "a Jewish state" with the present reality of "a state for the Jews." Here is the nuanced difference, and what it means for Israel's future.
Never did I think that you would choose a group of people whom you have zero connection with over our friendship, but as they say: When it comes to the Palestinians, you can do no wrong.
Enjoy this satirical piece about the first AI-powered perfection in double standards management.
Israel cannot build a Palestinian state for them. Only Palestinians can, but first, they must listen and learn how.
The media has become less a reporter of this conflict and more of a supporting actor in it.
The amorphous nature of Palestinian statehood allows the world to view atrocious Palestinian violence as not quite real — sort of imaginary, like the state of "Palestine" itself.
Western countries must snap out of their parasympathetic freeze before things get even uglier. Jews are always the first, but never the last. Everyone should be rightly scared.
There is still hope, plenty of it, but it starts with being honest and accepting reality for what it is, not as we wish it to be.
The “pro-Palestinian” mobs are a problem. But they could not have taken over various Western movements were it not for a cadre of cowards who let them.
It is a war between the Muslim Brotherhood and, ultimately, the freedom-loving, democracy-driven Western world. Hence why all Westerners should defiantly pick a side if they appreciate what they have.
Yesterday’s rescue mission is an excellent demonstration that the IDF is performing much better than expected, including two massive deviations from the plan that occurred during the operation.
Until activists and other forces around the world reject the Palestinian movement’s core ethos — endless war until Israel disappears — there will be no peace and no “Palestine.”
The Nova Music Festival Exhibition in New York City is an in-depth remembrance of the brutal October 7th massacres at the “Tribe of Nova” festival in southern Israel.
It does not work. Here is why it is best to not waste your factual breaths on those who are allergic to the truth.
In our “post-truth” society, history is now just someone’s opinion. But it turns out, there are (still) some objective facts.
Who needs books, documentaries, historians, and first-person testimonies when we have overly edited ego-maniacs and self-righteous virtue-signalers screaming from atop their ivory towers, like you?
The virtue-signalers of the Western world will never put their armies where their mouths are, nor will they have to. Their Muslim clients will soon be picking over their remains.
The West must reduce its arrogance and accept that the Middle East is a tribal region. Western politicians lack the right framework to understand it, hence why the West habitually endangers it.
Some want to make Jews "White" so that they can feel more comfortable sitting in their privileged shell of ignorance while spewing Jew-hatred and inciting genocide against us worldwide. Shame on them.
Your opinion is not going to save more lives, achieve peace in the Middle East, or save the Palestinians from their dreadful, oppressive, antisemitic leadership spanning decades.
Some 76 years ago today, a single act of courage may have saved the newborn State of Israel.
But this is nothing new. They have been lying since October 7th — and way before then as well.
Israelis are defending the West, which is essentially our own creation to the extent that the West is ultimately a product of Judaism and Christianity.
Enjoy this satire about only the purest love and peace on Earth, where antisemitism is imagined paranoia, Israel is the only country in human history founded "on stolen land," and Palestinians are perfectly perfect.
The Islamic Republic of Iran's hostility towards Israel is rooted in a complex interplay of historical, ideological, political, financial, and regional factors.
Want to lay blame for dead Palestinians? If you are blaming Israel, you are playing the role Hamas wants you to play. Look in a mirror. You are the reason Palestinians are dying.
One thing you do not “receive” when you move to the Jewish state are textbook lessons in what we might call: “Welcome to Israel, a sliver of land in the volatile, Jew-hating Middle East.”
Working to prevent Israel from effectively defending itself does not make you "anti-war." It makes you anti-Jewish.
Selective empathy renders Jews completely unacknowledged and unsupported, exposing the emptiness behind the self-proclaimed advocacy by "pro-Palestinians."
“If you ask all the soldiers here who have suffered terrible injuries like me, we would all tell you that if we could, we would return to serve on the front lines tomorrow.”
“Am Yisrael Chai” (Hebrew for “The People of Israel Live”) has become second only to Israel’s national anthem as the premier declaration of and for the Jewish People.
Enjoy this satirical piece about folks who seem to care so much about human rights, "liberation," and sociopolitical grievances — but only for God's gift to the world, the honorable Palestinians.
The success of this whole charade, draped in the noble cloak of justice and human rights, starkly illustrates the potency of ideological warfare, where truth has become the primary casualty.
In a world that is easily manipulated and corrupted, history teaches us that the Jewish state must look out for itself and Jews across the world — and we Jews must be firmly grateful for it.
The fact that something unjust happened to my grandparents or they were unjustly deprived of something does not automatically mean that I am owed anything.
“Palestine” is mostly a priority of Western leftists who harbor self-imposed guilt, as well as of poor Arabs who are unexcited about their lives.
It is the taboo question of committed Zionists, but admitting that there is a red line is the most loyal thing I can do as an Israeli.
Understanding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict predominantly through the lens of Palestinian aspirations for statehood obscures much deeper issues at play here.
Uncritical reporting has given credibility to the pernicious, well-organized lawfare campaign against Israel, designed to chip away at the Jewish state's legitimacy.
Dive into this nine-step process to determine if your noble anti-Zionist crusade has veered into the murky waters of good old-fashioned antisemitism.
The dissemination of libels about Israel often exacerbates tensions and hinders the quest for a nuanced understanding of Israel, Zionism, Israelis, what a “Jewish state” means, and the Middle East.
Once, anti-Zionism and antisemitism were two different pathologies. Sadly, as a general rule, it is now clear that this is not the case.
Surely the Israeli abductees would still be incessantly top-of-mind — had we not been talking about the Jews.
Many feel they must choose between their interests as Jews and their interests as citizens. These used to be aligned, but have now diverged — as the West’s commitment to liberal decency has declined.
Against the backdrop of the Israel-Hamas war, it is well-known that children make up nearly half of Gaza’s population. The reasons why might surprise you.
Israelis would love the world's support as we sacrifice the lives, families, careers, and mental health of thousands of our own people to eradicate pure evil on our border. But we do not need it.
It is our refusal to assimilate fully into anyone else’s culture, our absolute commitment to our own tradition, at any cost — and yet our grief for this cost.
The Jewish state must achieve true independence, especially from the United States of America.
Recently, I went to a seminar in Israel run by a movement that aims to save Israel from internal strife by defining a more cohesive, inclusive, and respectful — and less toxic — public discourse.
As they say in Israel: Yom HaZikaron reminds us about the cost of having a state, and Yom HaShoah about the cost of not.
The popular chant, “We don’t want two states, we want 1948!” states that about as clearly as can be, as does “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!”
“What the hell is going on?” is a weekly series in which we bring you the most bizarre, outlandish, and surreal developments from around the Jewish world during the past week.
“Gather about you all who observe the law, and avenge your people. Pay back the Gentiles what they deserve, and observe the precepts of the law.”
U.S. President Joe Biden’s betrayal of Israel is unpardonable, and he is beyond redemption.
Christians and Muslims, who jealously believe they are God’s chosen people, denounce Jews for having trademarked the concept first. But anyway.
Both men are examples of what a prototypical politician looks like nowadays: hypocritical, contradictory, people-pleasing, self-serving, and disingenuous.
Zionist collector David Matlow of Toronto, Canada joined Joshua Hoffman (the founder of Future of Jewish) to debate this question.
There is a guy whom you probably have heard of. He was a two-term U.S. president who left office at age 54. In other words, he needed “a job” for the rest of his working life.
Western governments, along with the United Nations, have never held and will never hold the Palestinians to account for their murderous depravity.
A few reflections on Jews and the Holocaust, as Israel observes Holocaust Memorial Day today.
Journalistic laziness and cowardice are behind the poor and biased coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Here is where the reporting goes wrong — and why.
“What the hell is going on?” is a weekly series in which we bring you the most bizarre, outlandish, and surreal developments from around the Jewish world during the past week.
Hopefully my story can help people acknowledge profusely misguided errors of the antisemitic way.
This is why cultural appropriation is a progressive mega-sin, except when it comes to junior jihadists playing "Palestine" Barbie.
Once upon a time they warned us about "the uneducated." Now we should be warning them about the overly educated — and how they are indoctrinating millions of clueless, overly impressionistic students.
Also in this episode of “Random Thought Thursday” —
- Let’s stop telling Israelis how to live their lives.
- “This is Israel’s Vietnam War.” — No, no it is not. Not at all.
- Why the West might be appeasing Iran
- The psychology of “anti-Israel activists” and “anti-Zionist Jews”
As an Israeli peace activist, I say: If you from abroad want to demand something, demand a resolution to the conflict, not the annihilation of one side.
Not for nothing did author Robert Wistrich call antisemitism the world’s oldest hatred.
Rafah, in southern Gaza, is an otherwise inconspicuous city that has been featured in headline news for months now. Here is why it is so critical to Israel, Hamas, Egypt, and Western countries like the U.S.
To those who sacrifice their own families in order to destroy ours, I say: Fear us, the men who value peace, but are dragged to war.
I am not a violent person, but I am also not self-defeating. If I am asked to defend myself, my people, and my homeland, or allow others to walk all over us in the name of Islam, I choose the former.
Today, many Jews are beginning to understand that, because of the fault lines in democracy, the sociopolitical landscape can suddenly change.
“What the hell is going on?” is a weekly series in which we bring you the most bizarre, outlandish, and surreal developments from around the Jewish world during the past week.
These thoughts make you barricade your sliding doors, turn driving through a tunnel into fear for the hostages, and dare you to make summer plans.
If only there was an institution where you could borrow books for free, or some futuristic handheld device with the sum total of human knowledge at your fingertips.
If anyone genuinely wants peace with Israel and the Jewish People, then let them have it. To everyone else: Beware of the “Free Israel” movement.
You are being manipulated and, as a result, you are consigning Palestinians to an eternal hell on Earth.
Yes, I know, everyone in the fight against antisemitism and "anti-Zionism" has been acting with the best of intentions, but let’s stop being so soft — and let’s start confronting unfortunate truths.
The children in Gaza have parents, who have agency. They choose to educate their kids to hate and kill Jews. Naturally, as a Jew, I do not have any empathy for that — or the consequences that follow.
Western leaders are obsessed with a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. They sound like people who have never heard the arguments against it.
Columbia University in New York City is offering us a real-time snapshot of where the West is heading — and heading fast.
Diaspora Jewry’s response to antisemitism has predominantly been the Holocaust — as if showing Jew haters what other Jew haters succeeded in doing will mitigate antisemitism.
For one thing, the Passover celebration is the first annual holiday to commemorate a human social achievement rather than a natural occurrence.
A conspiracy theory about the Jewish takeover of TikTok, “Water in Occupied Palestine” featured in a Passover prayer book, politicians want Hamas to have veto power over U.S. aid to Israel, and more.
“When will you ever learn?” asked the refrain in Pete Seeger’s classic anti-war song, “Where Have All the Flowers Gone.”
Jews are allowed to center ourselves, love ourselves, celebrate ourselves, and remember who we are.
Netanyahu has put himself in an unenviably impossible position: He is managing three different negotiations with three different, oftentimes conflicting parties.
Even if the Jewish state has already dug itself too deep a whole during this war, it can at least start improving in these areas to prepare for the inevitability of future conflicts.
“Gaza more resembles 1930s Germany, where an extremist party won elections, with the support of most of the people, and quickly unified the military and civil government into one entity.”
Israeli-American technology expert Hillel Fuld offers insights into the reasons why the Israel-Hamas war has been long and drawn out — and unprecedented.
Pastor Martin Niemöller's poem is a pessimistic, selfish, lazy person’s response to injustice. And the vast majority of non-Jews cannot even muster the energy to rise to that negligible request.
"If they did not have Israel as the common enemy, they would kill each other. This is the reality of what is so-called Palestine."
One-third of the Gazan casualties do not exist, Khamenei's Zionist conspiracy theory about "a major flaw" in Western universities, Israel is being accused of "scholasticide," and more.
A few years ago, I learned that the approach of being “smart, not right” usually yields the best results. Israel would be wise to act accordingly as it mulls a response to last night's Iranian attack.
“Let me get this straight: You’re facing immigration crises, financial and environmental crises, and a war-like Russia on your doorstep, and your harshest debates are about Israel?”
A real genocide in Gaza would be less than a day’s effort if Israel did not care about civilian life.
Muslim countries have a key role to play in deradicalizing the Gaza Strip, and some of them have a wealth of experience in doing so.
Many people are still "living" in a world that does not exist anymore. Israel is not as strong as some people think, the U.S. is not Israel's best friend, and the Jews are not safe and sound.
Unfortunately, many "pro-Palestinians" are disingenuous, spiteful, Jew-loathing hypocrites who pretend to give a damn about "the people of Palestine." It's about time they get exposed.
Israel continues to assassinate many Palestinian, Lebanese, Syrian, and Iranian terrorists as part of its war against Islamic extremists. Meanwhile, Diaspora Jews have chosen a far different path.
Obviously, “progressive extremism” and “regressive extremism” are both dangerous in and of themselves, but their convergence is even more worrisome.
“Being weak towards your enemies (Iran) and harsh towards your allies (Israel) is a strategy that has never proven itself.”
Al Jazeera is not interested in news. It is focused on shaping the narrative in ways that befit Qatar's agenda. And even though Qatar is a U.S. ally, Al Jazeera’s editorial policy suggests otherwise.
The International Committee of the Red Cross' new director-general, “12.3 million children” have died in Gaza, the word “terrorist” is now a “racial slur,” and more.
In Gaza, Israel is not only fighting for the Jewish state's future, but also for the Jewish People's past.
History has presented the Palestinians with the same choice as the “ordinary German” during World War II.
People across the world manipulated an episode from earlier this week to smear the Jewish state, in what can be described as yet another blood libel against the Jews. Enough is enough.
First, understand Israel is carefully doing what's necessary to restore its security and release its kidnapped citizens. Then think about reconstruction and governance of Gaza.
"The time has come for more of us to take advantage of this privilege, so we can all join in shaping our extraordinary Jewish nation."
A variety of unlikely candidates across the world have been standing up and speaking out for Israel, even though they presumably have no dog in the fight.
We know very well what this slogan means. Spare us your whitewashed and delusional apologia.
This is what mainstream media will not tell you about the work that the Israel Defense Forces is doing to simultaneously protect civilians and eliminate pitiful, cowardly terrorists.
The political consensus that the Jewish state is reflects the world’s animosity towards it, rather than any legal fact. The territory is disputed, and Israel’s claim to it is strong.
The prescient observation of the biblical character, Balaam, that we are a “nation destined to dwell alone” provides us with an understanding of our place and role in the modern world order.
Israel’s “weaponization of COVID,” Zelensky is a “peculiar kind of Jew,” the irony of an app that warns shoppers about brands involved in the “Israeli genocide,” and so much more.
Even though Israel possesses one of the world’s best missile defense capabilities, the damage would still be severe, exacerbated by shortages in Iron Dome interceptors following the Gaza conflict.
These days, so-called feminists must proudly wear a Palestinian scarf, chant “free Gaza” in the streets, and turn a blind eye to the fate of all the other (i.e. Jewish) suffering women.
"I grew up learning to hate Jews. Most Muslims grow up and learn to hate Jews. No group hates another group as much as Muslims hate Jews."
“We believe that, whereas unity among Jews has always been a value, uniformity between Jews has never been a value.”
The good thing about the West is that we are (still) afforded the privilege of choice: to fight for our democratic and moral superiority, or to allow it to evaporate.
Even though the Talmud is ancient Jewish literature, its relevance to the contemporary is remarkable.
From Muslim electorates in Western countries, to a ridiculous UN Security Council resolution, to the U.K. making a grand gesture in favor of Hamas, everything is political and cynical.
The terror group has had great success controlling the West's narratives about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, despite most of it being outright lies. It is worth analyzing how they achieved this.
“Israel has taken more measures to avoid needless civilian harm than virtually any other nation that’s fought an urban war.”
I came away from this journey through hell with even greater admiration for the remarkable courage and resilience of the people of Israel.
The U.S. taps Qatar to tap Hamas to build a humanitarian pier in Gaza, antisemitism goes medical, "Drag Show for Palestine," and more!
Whereas Jewish loneliness is a real thing (yet hardly new), Zionism was supposed to be a response to Jewish loneliness.
This week, "Future of Jewish" founder Joshua Hoffman joined David Harris on his TV program “Defending Israel” which broadcasts on JBS. Enjoy their conversation.
Oh, the irony: It is the very terms which these “woke” progressives cherish that are indeed near and dear to Israel and Zionism.
"Not only is there not a positive correlation, there is a strong negative correlation, which makes no sense at all."
The response from much of the Diaspora Jewish community today is one of hand-wringing and very little action, following the October 7th massacres in Israel.
You and your administration are making the world, the U.S. notwithstanding, a much more dangerous place.
“What they didn’t understand was that the very thing that was the source of his apparent strength, was also the source of his greatest weakness.”
The Oscars gets an antisemitic makeover, “pro-Palestinian” protesters visit a newly opened Holocaust museum, Palestinians have been dying at an almost perfectly steady rate, and more!
The belief that Israel is built on stolen Arab land has become orthodoxy among the anti-Israel movement. It is dangerous fiction in need of correction.
I am talking about confident, courageous, burly groups of Jews who can put these "pro-Palestinian" mobsters in their place.
A secular Jew in California and an ultra-Orthodox Jew in Israel (and everyone in between) can all find their shared destiny in Jewish ethical growth.
Director Jonathan Glazer's disturbing speech at last Sunday's Oscars prompts a deep-dive into why some Jewish folks hate themselves and other Jews.
It is crucial to understand Israeli voters if you truly want to understand Israeli politics.
Double standards galore, the "poor Palestinians" and their supporters are afforded luxuries from which Israel, Israelis, and Jews are forbidden.
I could work to help sway opinion in my home country if only there was a shred of effective Israeli PR there and elsewhere abroad.
A “culture of grace” can transform people’s hearts and, in the process, renew not just Israel but also the Jewish People.
Increasingly, people cannot seem to tell the difference between military operations and genocide, especially when it comes to Israel.
One hundred years ago, Ahad Ha’am described an import/export model of Jewish culture, and I still believe in it.
Hamas snipers using American equipment, "BBC Verify" just verifies its disturbing biases, a new documentary about the Palestinian "Mandela" and more.
“Israel did not grow strong because it had an American alliance. It acquired an American alliance because it had grown strong.”
“Art should be the opposite of social media culture ... an antidote to fast food activism.”
"The Nazis sought to hide the evidence of their genocide. Hamas posted it on Facebook and Telegram."
“No Jews, No News” is a popular aphorism summarizing the global preoccupation with this unique Middle Eastern indigenous ethnic group.
"It is not a war about territory or economics. It is not about who governs. It is about the transcendent rather than the immediate."
One had no great desire to be a soldier, and the other was almost killed by railroad workers in Africa before arriving to the Middle East. Plus an honorary mention.
What the best practices of "positioning" can teach us about how each group is communicating to a skeptical, media-blitzed world.
"If I am the one who lived the truth and lived that reality, then I'm obligated to speak up. Israel is not an apartheid state. Israel is a strong, beautiful, multi-ethnic democracy."
It is time that everyone knows loud and clear: The Palestinians do not have a state because of the Palestinians.
Reactions to a U.S. serviceman setting himself on fire for Gaza, a "Friends" meme about Hamas, the British politician who won an election after running a "pro-Palestine" campaign, and more.
We can no longer afford to gloss over those who peddle fiction and “make believe” prophecies, regardless of our political persuasions or anything else that tugs at our heart strings.
I don’t need someone to be like me to want to connect with them. In fact, I love difference, even on the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Israelis know that antisemites are empowered by Jewish fear and neutralized by Jewish strength.
As Jewish leaders pick and choose practices that align with their social norms, venerable traditionalists are shunted aside. (A version of this essay first appeared in The Times of Israel.)
If we keep ignoring it when they abuse our freedoms, they will eventually take them away.
And why the Americans have not pushed Qatar to sway Hamas to release the remaining 130 hostages, six of whom are U.S. citizens.
"Zionism is fundamentally a Western movement. It is a movement that lives on the border of the East, but always faces the West."
“But men love abstract reasoning and neat systematization so much that they think nothing of distorting the truth, closing their eyes and ears to contrary evidence to preserve their illusions.”
My whole life I thought that I was a liberal. This Israel-Hamas war changed my heart and my mind.
Plus, a tribute to Vivian Silver and the other Israeli peace activists who were either killed or kidnapped on October 7th.
Reactions to Prince William and Kate Middleton getting political, Jews lighting the Menorah in February, a McDonald's customer loses it over "Israel" wrapping, and more.
Part of this Israel-Hamas war reminded me of the "Trolley Problem" — a speculative puzzle that incorporates inaction as a consequential option in a moral choice.
"Those who embrace such tribal and sectarian hatreds will invariably, in time, aim their guns well beyond the Jewish people. Indeed, if we open our eyes, we will see that they are already doing so."
“The stakes of this election don’t make Donald Trump’s opponent less subject to scrutiny. It actually makes him more subject to scrutiny.”
The IDF is fighting bravely, but many Jews in the Diaspora have yet to fight, and we are already surrounded.
"All we Israelis want is a permanent peace. Not another temporary ceasefire. We've had enough of those."
And a humanitarian crisis, while disheartening, is not anywhere near the same as genocide or ethnic cleansing.
To the extent that we see every conflict as a battle between innocent victims and cruel victimizers, we will gloss over the moral complexities of reality.
When it comes to the Jewish People and Israel, folks tend to trust their (misguided) feelings over concrete facts.
When it is the Jews in question, people use social media to post about their skincare routine, what they ate for lunch or, even worse, an ill-timed ceasefire.
America's "extraordinary opportunity" for the Jewish state, Red Cross military gear marked as "humanitarian aid," amazing advice on balancing left-wing views and supporting Israel, and so much more.
Not the Palestinians and their various leadership groups, not the Israelis, not the Middle East and North Africa, not the United Nations, not even the U.S. and the European Union. No one.
There is an elephant in the room that hates Jews, aims to kill infidels, and keeps screaming "Allah is the greatest!"
Among those murdered or kidnapped on October 7th, more than 50 were citizens of Thailand. They are critical to Israeli agriculture, and many have decided to remain in or return to Israel amid the war.
Even in Israel, this land of the living, there is so much death. Even in every pure soul, there is the potential for evil.
The virtues of free speech are suddenly so celebrated, when the speech in question threatens us Jews.
How did Haaretz go from the preeminent source for all-things Israel, to an anti-Zionist, anti-Jewish sham?
Intentionally, Palestinian terrorists attacked Israel on one of the most joyous days of the Jewish year. Now, Israelis are starting to bounce back from one of the country’s all-time lows.
The Palestinian narrative is rooted in a bizarre double-sided coin: denial of Jewish history and appropriation of it.
The decolonization and self-determination movements they champion only matter for minority, persecuted groups not named “the Jews.”
Palestinian leadership has steadily co-opted and weaponized every type of antisemitism that could advance their political interests.
Here we Jews are again, put in yet another position to fend for ourselves, against age-old hypocrisies, contradictions, and double standards.
In establishing "a state of Jews," we have merely relocated Jews from one shtetl or ghetto to another. Albeit, with an air force.
The Religious Zionists' calls for Jewish resettlement in Gaza are idealistic — and completely, dangerously misguided.
You could not have scripted the Israel-Hamas war to be any more bizarre, even if you tried.
It is unfathomable that one of the worst hostage situations in modern history has become just another subplot during the Israel-Hamas war, but this is exactly what has happened.
The time has come for the utmost goal of this Israel-Hamas war to be unapologetically stated.
One of the goals is to convey a message to all Palestinian terrorists: "There is no safe place for anyone."
By sending mixed messages to the Middle East since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war, the U.S. might just be making the situation worse.
The Israel-Hamas war and parts of the Holocaust are bizarrely portrayed on the internet's sixth-most visited website, to put it kindly.
"Despite already knowing what came to pass that day, I still found myself shocked to my core and chilled to my bones in a way I have felt only once before: on a visit to Auschwitz."
The Israel-Hamas war is the most recent proliferation of ridiculous "progressive" reactions, which go against every grain of justice, rationale, intellectual honesty, and human decency.
As one famed satirist said, Israelis have no patience for old stories about persecution.
The international community only makes the Israeli-Palestinian conflict worse when it takes on the eternal responsibility of caring for the Palestinians.
When “everything is political,” people can effortlessly choose to stay ignorant or close-minded, and thus avoid important conversations, which are vital for liberal democracies.
The more you unpack this comparison, the more you realize that it is actually a misleading, inaccurate, and potentially hazardous one.
Why is the Biden administration not doing what’s in the best interest of Israel, an American ally, or even of America?
It is imperative for the West to learn an important lesson: It is better to fight your enemy on their territory rather than to wait for them to come to you.
There are approximately 250,000 Holocaust survivors still living, spread across 90 counties, with a median age of 86.
Could it be that Qatar funds Hamas not just because they agree ideologically, but also because Hamas can hamper Israel from helping regional "competitors" of the Qataris?
"In the event that I have been taken captive, I demand that no deal for the release of a single terrorist be made for my release. Our resounding victory is more important than anything else."
From a children’s puzzle showing a cartoon Muslim world attacking the Jewish state, to a new kebab shop in Jordan being named "October 7th," you can't make this stuff up.
Again, you are tasked with answering the poignant question: Do you hate us Jews more than you love yourselves?
I have always been immensely proud of my Judaism and have never hidden it. I have been equally proud to be British and I adore London. Now, it seems dangerous.
When you look at a map of these Iranian-backed countries and territories, they all surround Saudi Arabia and Israel.
When I am able to ignore my anxiety, I feel wonder and even joy that God has allowed my family to live at this time in history.
The Palestinians have manipulated many Jews into thinking morality, the bedrock of Judaism, is at the heart of the Palestinian cause. Reality suggests otherwise.
A reported "comprehensive plan" to end the Israel-Hamas war is dangerously confusing motion with progress, based on plenty of history.
Beyond a term that sounds good to the ear, the "two-state solution" is an unrestrained illusion and nothing more than a waste of time, at least for now.
"I am Muslim, but Jews deserve life and dignity. It's not a matter of land but a matter of existence."
Israeli politics is quickly spiraling out of control and leading the state down a potentially devastating path.
Zionism, at its heart, was a progressive cause before the term "progressive" became pop culture lore.
Contrarianism is in the very DNA of Judaism, but something has hampered the power of Jewish contrarians in recent decades, and it is plaguing the Jewish People.
The West has a pristine opportunity to truly confront Iran and send a spirited message to other autocratic regimes.
Years ago, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was nicknamed "The Magician." He might just be able to pull into his bag of tricks when Israel most needs it.
"You don't fight a genocidal war against a population that just survived another genocide, lose that war, and then cry about it for 75 years. That isn't how this works."
"It is time for us to flush the word 'Islamophobia' down the toilet and start looking in the mirror and ask ourselves: How did we get here?"
Let’s remember that the International Court of Justice is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations, a deeply antisemitic organization.
"Our 'higher nature' allows us to be profoundly altruistic, but altruism is mostly aimed at members of our groups."
Israeli parents are eager that the "need" for their children to enlist will cease to exist. October 7th painfully reminded us that this "need" is still very much a part of Israeli society.
"Delete Israel and the West from the world, and we would still be as ignorant as we are. We would still be stabbing each other."
Looking at events from a larger, historical perspective gives us a more comprehensive, nuanced outlook that will prevent ignorance and arrogance from harming the Jews.
Despite the media's decades-long attempts at trying to frame its work as a "public service," it is anything but that.
The Palestinian territories have dismal economies that barely function, yet many of their leaders, administrators, and supporters flaunt lavish lives of sheikhs. How is this the case?
The West's approach to non-Western regions, politics, and societies is endangering some of its greatest allies, like Israel, which ultimately imperils the West.
The Palestinians' "war on reality" turns factual truths into "social facts" which appeal to emotions and personal beliefs in much more powerful, persuasive ways than do appeals to objective facts.
Even as the Palestinians' story has excessively evolved, they have mastered the art of the "throughline" — an essential element of fiction storytelling.
When Israeli leadership tells Hamas to "surrender or die," now the world knows (in case they didn't) that Israel means business.
Since we are social beings, labeling is often helpful, but many modern societies have overindulged in labeling, which creates tremendous confusion and thus endless conflict.
It seemed like only a matter of time before Israel's government would be forced to decide between eradicating Hamas from Gaza, or returning all the remaining hostages. It appears that time is near.
From Anne Frank’s diary becoming "porn in Texas" to the goody two-shoes Vladimir Putin blasting Israel for its campaign against Hamas, 2023 was special, to say the least.
One side is doing its best "to avoid needless carnage while at the same time ridding the world of bestial terror." The other side is this "bestial terror" — yet it seems to get so many free passes.
The two glass ceiling-breaking Black Americans are not antisemitic in intention, just in outcome. I’m not sure what is worse.
This past Christmas Eve, the New York Times went to a place I’d never imagine: It published an essay by Gaza City’s mayor, an appointee of Hamas. You know, the world-renowned terrorist group.
“The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter — it’s the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.”
We know why some Palestinians and their supporters are uncomfortable with Jesus Christ’s actual beginnings.
With original music by Barry Manilow, “Harmony” may be remembered as the most important Jewish show since “Fiddler.”
Differences in culture, language, values, and outlook on life make it difficult for the West to decipher the conduct and vision of Hamas in particular and the region in general.
Israeli Christian women have some of the highest education rates in the country, and the vast majority of Israeli Christians say they are satisfied with life in the country.
Fatah's willingness to flirt with integrating Hamas into the Palestinian Authority is regionally treacherous, which is exactly what the terror group desires.
Four questions that might make you see Israel, Zionism, and Israelis in an entirely different light.
The Palestinians’ persistent habit of lying is a combination of honor, dignity, fear, jealousy, and anger. When will they realize it's not serving them or the region?
Multiple signs suggest that Israel is winning the war against Hamas, but ultimate victory will come when both the terror group and Benjamin Netanyahu's government both lay down their arms.
If we analyze the logic of Israel's enemies, we can understand that the term "after the war" used by various officials and pundits has no real meaning.
Or, why fulfilling one's Jewishness later in life is advantageous to the individual and beneficial to the Jewish People.
The more poignant question is: Can’t we all agree on the same historical context and timeline?
Hope is not dead, but a considerable part of it died on October 7th. Here's how we can rebuild and revitalize it.
As universities try to compete for more students and faculty, homogenous opinion is spreading on campus, and academia has metastasized from liberal to illiberal bias.
“There are 600,000 explanations of the Torah, and each person received an interpretation according to the root of their soul.”
"It seems to me that the time has come to put an end to all the stories of the 'poor Palestinians.'"
Even the staunchly progressive U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders, a harsh critic of Israel, recently asserted that there is no possibility of having a permanent ceasefire with Hamas.
As they say in Israel: Yom HaZikaron reminds us about the cost of having a state, and Yom HaShoah about the cost of not.
Across much of the world, it seems that good judgment is quickly becoming a rare phenomenon.
Psalm 73 gives voice to the gamut of complex emotions with which we have all been grappling.
It's time for all Jews to accept that we will never win the never-ending game of trying to attract other people’s love.
Liz Magill, the University of Pennsylvania’s president, isn't the only person who ought to be vacating their position against the backdrop of the Israel-Hamas war.
It really shouldn’t be that difficult to differentiate between free speech, the fundamental democratic right, and free speech, the amoral, we’ll-attack-whoever-we-want ideology.
Albert Einstein saw Jewish nationality "as a fact" and believed "every Jew must draw the consequences from this fact."
It’s October 2, 1945, exactly one month after the Second World War ended. For some odd reason, I have the ability to see into the future, and I tell you that in 2023, things are going to get really weird and really whacky.
If the East does a better job than the West of protecting Israel’s vital interests, the Jewish state would be wise to interchange its allies.
The lesson of Chanukah is to be extra-weary of overly assimilated Jews — and also to not write them off.
On Tuesday, the famed "environmental activist" attacked Israel, again — demonstrating her utter lack of education, again.
While Sir Isaac Newton’s third law wasn’t intended to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, it is very much relevant here: For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
The Israel-Hamas war is making more Israeli women and their partners seriously consider having even more children. Why might this be the case?
Zionism has been vilified for its very success in self-transforming victims into sovereigns. But isn't the very goal of progress to move away from victim to self-determination?
Maybe, just maybe, these are some of the reasons why we still don’t have a two-state solution.
On Friday, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited Israel for the fourth time during the Israel-Hamas war, while continuing a pattern of statements full of empty and frankly meaningless clichés.
Literally and figuratively, Israel sits in the very middle of “the West” and “the East” — often taking the best from both worlds, but not quite fitting in to either one.
Inside the Palestinian money-making machine that is oiled almost perfectly with bribery, nepotism, and kleptocracy.
With a parliamentary democratic system, Israel's variety of political parties has become a double-edged sword.
Now more than ever, we need you. The Jewish world needs you. And, as we fight another war against our unfriendly Arab neighbors, Israel needs you.
There is a common misnomer going around that Israel wouldn’t exist without America. Here are the historical facts.
"There's a lot about our experience that people aren’t aware of. We have an amazing story and we should learn it."
The inside story of how Benjamin Netanyahu stupendously surrendered Israel's leverage at a time when the Jewish state and the Jewish People need it most.
Today's terrorism by Hamas and other Muslim groups can be explained by "sacred terror" emanating centuries ago — including by an ancient group of Jewish terrorists from the First Roman-Jewish War.
Tiny minorities have effectively forced Israel into a horrible hostage deal, and we must not allow this to keep happening if the Jewish state will win its war against Hamas.
As much as the current Israel-Hamas war is one of the highest prices ever paid by the Jewish state, we in Israel — and Jews across the world — unquestionably need it.
With dwindling Western support of Israel's war against Palestinian terror, the Jewish state could very well receive unbelievable support from a country not known to be one of its official partners.
Since the Jews were among humanity’s very first socialists and very first liberals, perhaps we should remind the world about who we are and what we subscribe to.
Against the backdrop of the Israel-Hamas war, it's well-known that children make up nearly half of Gaza’s population. The reasons why might surprise you.
The Israel-Hamas war has exasperated this terrible trend, which includes death by assimilation, arrogance, ignorance, and the rise of progressive liberalism among American Jews.
Colonization is a term that tends to pop up often in conversations about Israel. Let's explore it further.
Rachel Moore, an Israeli settler from the Neve Daniel settlement, joined me to discuss what many people believe are the incredibly controversial Israeli settlements.
So many people are calling for a ceasefire. I’m not sure they really understand what this would entail.
This proposal might seem unlikely or even virtually impossible, revolutionary or counterculture, and certainly imperfect — yet one that could very well deliver us what I think most of us want to see.
The Palestinian attacks in Israel on October 7th were political, ethnic, racial, religious, and ideological — a combination that makes Nazi Germany antisemitism pale in comparison in some ways.
Emotionally, I am completely distraught by this reality. But logically, it (unfortunately) makes perfect sense. Here are four rampant reasons why this has happened.
It's time to recall the words that Israel's prime minister told the Americans in 1982: "We will stand by our principles. And, when necessary, we will die for them again, with or without your aid."
The situation is unprecedented “not just for Israel, but for the world,” according to a counterterrorism expert.
Here we Jews are again, put in yet another position to fend for ourselves, against age-old hypocrisies, contradictions, and double standards.
The overall response to fighting antisemitism on college campuses (and in other public arenas) has been one big failure. Here are some better ideas.
Since nothing happens by coincidence in the Middle East, many of us in Israel are not buying that the war between Israel and Hamas is just that.
It’s about time we wake up and realize: The Palestinians are not who we want them to be.
The Israel-Hamas war is the most recent proliferation of absurd "liberal" reactions, which go against every grain of justice, rationale, intellectual honesty, and human decency.
Certainly, the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict is an awkward, powerful stain on both Israeli and Palestinian sides, but calling the state of affairs “apartheid” is grossly inaccurate.
The news media, which is amplified by the sheer scale of social media, has decided not just to describe and explain, but to help. And that is why they sadly do far more harm.
Even though the Israeli government has reluctantly done so, we should all share in the responsibility of October 7th, 2023 — also known as the “Black Sabbath.”
The West, Israel included, has long operated with the faulty assumption that you can just throw good money at bad problems.
To predominantly put the onus on Israel for the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict is completely ignorant and inflammatory.
The more you unpack this comparison, the more you realize that it is actually a misleading, inaccurate, and potentially hazardous one.
And other heart-wrenching insights, perspectives, and reflections against the backdrop of the Israel-Hamas war.
So many people do not fully realize that Israel's most dangerous enemy is not named Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah, or Iran.
Even though it will probably come at the most extraordinarily painful price in Israel's illustrious history.
Many people think Israel was created because of the Holocaust, but using this logic irresponsibly erases other parts of history that are also important to understanding the critical need for Israel.
“For now, it’s no big mystery that this has nothing to do with the existence of the State of Israel and everything to do with Jew-hatred — that great, festering wound in the side of humanity from which all prejudice flows. It has been there for thousands of years and every time we think it has healed, some monstrous collective claws it open again.”
Merav Oren is the CEO of Foodish, the world's biggest Jewish food platform, and the culinary arm of ANU – Museum of the Jewish People.
A multidisciplinary entrepreneur, she is the founder of a coworking space and ecosystem for women entrepreneurs, called WMN, as well as the founder of OpenRestaurants, a marketplace that enables foodies from all over the world to experience top-chef restaurants from within.
The Future of Jewish is a podcast hosted by Joshua Hoffman. In each episode, Joshua is joined by top leaders, thinkers, and doers who are paving the path for a promising Jewish future.
Talli Yehuda Rosenbaum is an individual and couple therapist, and is certified as a sex therapist by The American Association for Sex Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT), as well as the Israeli Society for Sex Therapy (ISST).
Rosenbaum co-hosts the Intimate Judaism podcast and is co-author of the book, I Am For My Beloved: A Guide to Enhanced Intimacy for Married Couples.
NOTE: Parts of this episode are sexually graphic, albeit in a professional manner. Listener discretion is advised.
The Future of Jewish is a podcast hosted by Joshua Hoffman. In each episode, Joshua is joined by top leaders, thinkers, and doers who are paving the path for a promising Jewish future.
Laureen Lipsky is the CEO and founder of Taking Back the Narrative, a Zionist education initiative. Her Israel and Jewish-oriented op-ed writing has been featured in The Federalist, American Thinker, Washington Examiner, Algemeiner, Israel Hayom, and Jewish News Syndicate.
The Future of Jewish is a podcast hosted by Joshua Hoffman. In each episode, Joshua is joined by top leaders, thinkers, and doers who are paving the path for a promising Jewish future.
Mike Leven is a business executive and philanthropist. Inspired by Warren Buffet’s and Bill Gates’ Giving Pledge, he co-founded the Jewish Future Pledge to carry on his family’s commitment to Judaism.
Leven currently serves on the boards of The Marcus Foundation; AEPi Fraternity Foundation; Birthright Israel Foundation; Board of Advisors of Prager University; HERSHA Hospitality Trust; Independent Women’s Voice; Turning Point USA Board of Advisors, and SESTRA Group.
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Amy Holtz co-founded the Jewish Future Pledge, and previously served as CEO of Mosaic United and President of OpenDor Media, after more than three decades of experience leading and growing her own multimillion-dollar businesses, including Party City’s largest franchise operation.
A passionate advocate for Israel and the Jewish People, Amy has been named one of The Jerusalem Post’s “50 Most Influential Jews.”
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Rabbi Mendel Moskovitz was born in New York and, at the age of 6 months, moved with his parents to serve as Chabad emissaries and rebuild Jewish life in Kharkiv, Ukraine, after the Soviet Union fell.
Rabbi Moskovitz studied abroad for 10 years in a yeshiva and rabbinical school in Australia, and then returned with his wife to Kharkiv. There he raised three children, and served as a rabbi to Ukrainian youth for seven years, until the onset of the current war in Ukraine.
Rabbi Moskovitz, currently seeking refuge in Israel, is now serving as an ambassador for the Jewish Relief Network Ukraine, a nonprofit organization providing humanitarian relief to more than 30,000 Jews and others in Ukraine.
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Yael Eckstein is President and CEO of The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, which was founded in 1983 by her father, Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein (of blessed memory). She oversees all ministry programs and serves as the international spokesperson.
With over a decade of nonprofit experience in multiple roles, Eckstein has the rare distinction of being a woman leading one of the world’s largest religious charitable organizations. She has also written three books.
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Rabbi Noga Brenner Samia is Hillel Israel’s Executive Director. She leads the Hillels at seven university centers throughout Israel.
Brenner Samia joined Hillel from BINA: The Jewish Movement for Social Change, where she served as deputy director and a teacher at the Secular Yeshiva of Tel Aviv for the past 13 years. She worked in the military and pharmaceutical industries for 10 years before joining KolDor as executive director in 2006.
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Since 2019, Ofer Gutman has served as the CEO of Masa Israel Journey, which connects Jewish teenagers and young adults to Israel and their Jewish identity through long-term experiences in Israel.
Prior to joining Masa, Gutman served as the CEO of Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP) Community, Executive Director of the World Zionist Organization in North America, and Director of Long-Term Programs at Israel Way.
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Jodi Bromberg is the CEO of 18Doors (formerly named InterfaithFamily), whose mission is to support interfaith families in exploring Jewish life, and to strengthen Jewish organizations’ understanding of interfaith inclusion. Prior to joining 18Doors, she was a corporate attorney in the Philadelphia area.
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Elisheva Kupferman is the Chief Strategy Officer at Mosaic United, an Israel-based organization that brings together, spurs, and equips organizations working to strengthen the connection of young Jews to their Jewish identities and Israel.
Prior to joining Mosaic United, Kupferman served as Strategic Planner and Educator at Makom – the Israel Education Lab of the Jewish Agency for Israel, and she also spent more than a decade as an experiential educator and running leadership programs for teens in a variety of educational settings.
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Dr. Sara Yanovsky is the Executive Director of the World Union of Jewish Studies, a Jerusalem-based organization which publishes academic, peer-reviewed materials; awards scholarships and prizes to scholars in the field of Jewish Studies; and organizes conferences and other types of events around Jewish Studies.
Born in Budapest and raised in Vienna, Yanovsky completed her PhD at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem with the dissertation titled “Facing the Challenge of Jewish Education in the Metropolis: A Comparative Study of the Jewish Communal Organizations of Budapest and Vienna, from 1867 until World War II.”
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Dyonna Ginsburg is the CEO of OLAM, a network of 60-plus Jewish and Israeli organizations working in the fields of global service, international development, and humanitarian aid.
Prior to OLAM, she served as Director of Education and Service Learning at the Jewish Agency for Israel; Executive Director of Bema’aglei Tzedek, an Israeli social change NGO; and co-founder of Siach, a global network of Jewish social justice and environmental professionals. A frequent lecturer, Ginsburg was named “one of Israel's 50 most inspiring women” by Nashim magazine in 2015.
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Rabbi Scott Kahn is the director of Jewish Coffee House and the host of several podcasts, including Orthodox Conundrum, Intimate Judaism, and Baseball Rabbi.
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Dov Lipman is the founder and CEO of Yad L’Olim, an organization that serves as a voice in the Israeli government for new immigrants from all backgrounds.
In 2004, he immigrated from the U.S. to Israel with his wife and four children, and in 2013 he was elected to the 19th Knesset, making him the first U.S.-born Member of the Knesset in 30 years. Lipman is also the author of nine books about Israel and Judaism.
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Dina Rabhan is a strategy and creative consultant with more than 25 years of diverse career experience and expertise in media, education, nonprofits, leadership, and mental health.
She works with small and medium-sized enterprises in the for-profit and nonprofit sectors; currently sits on the board of two startups; and is an executive producer for a new documentary film called Uncharitable.
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Noam Wasserman is the dean of Yeshiva University’s Sy Syms School of Business. Before becoming dean in mid-2019, he was a professor of entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School and a chaired professor and founding director of a center at the University of Southern California.
Wasserman has also written two bestselling books: The Founder’s Dilemmas and Life Is a Startup.
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Dr. Jeffrey Herbst is the fourth president in the 70-year history of American Jewish University. Prior to joining AJU, he was president and CEO of the Newseum and the Newseum Institute in Washington, D.C. And from 2010 to 2015, he was the president of Colgate University.
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Rabbi Steven Burg is the CEO of Aish, a global organization with a singular focus of imparting timeless Jewish wisdom that uplifts and inspires people to live more thoughtful, spiritual, and impactful lives.
He also serves on the Board of Governors of the Jewish Agency, and as an Executive Board Member of the Rabbinical Council of America. Prior to Aish, Rabbi Burg was the Eastern Director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center where he oversaw the Museum of Tolerance in New York City and contributed to the Center’s fight against antisemitism.
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Andrés Spokoiny is President and CEO of Jewish Funders Network, an international community of private foundations and philanthropists with more 2,500 members from 11 countries around the world whose mission is to promote meaningful giving and take an active part in the processes that change the thinking and action patterns of philanthropy in the Jewish world.
He is a longtime Jewish communal leader with a history of leading successful organizational transformations, serving as the CEO of Federation CJA in Montreal and, prior to that, Andrés worked for the American Jewish Joint Distribution Community in Paris.
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Alon Friedman is the Founding Executive Director of Enter: The Jewish Peoplehood Alliance, a social startup whose vision is to ensure the Jewish People remain a dynamic, diverse, global community that is united, secure, and inclusive.
From 2012 to 2019, he served as head of the Israel office of Hillel International and as CEO of the Hillels of Israel, operating eight campus centers across the country. He is also a frequent speaker on Jewish Peoplehood, identity, and leadership, as well as Israeli society and culture.
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Becky Voorwinde is Executive Director of The Bronfman Fellowship, overseeing the strategic planning for all aspects of the Fellowship in Israel and the United States, including working closely with the global alumni community of more than 1,300 and select incoming Fellows.
She is also an alumnus of the program, and served as a volunteer member of Bronfman’s Alumni Advisory Board before taking the full-time position of Director of Alumni Engagement in 2008.
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Miriam Anzovin became a TikTok sensation thanks to her hot-take reactions of the Talmud and other Jewish texts, “locally sourced from a millennial brain” — with the goal of making Judaism sparkle for everyone — religious and non-religious Jews alike.
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Salvador Litvak is a Chilean-American filmmaker and social media influencer who has written and directed two theatrically-released feature films, When Do We Eat? (2006) and Saving Lincoln (2013).
As the Accidental Talmudist, he shares Jewish wisdom with over one million followers on his social media accounts.
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Jamie Geller is an American-Israeli celebrity chef, TV producer, entrepreneur, and most recently, the new Chief Media & Marketing Officer at Aish Global. She is also an author of several cookbooks and founder of the Kosher Media Network.
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Scott Shay is the author of In Good Faith: Questioning Religion and Atheism (a finalist for a National Jewish Book Award) and Getting our Groove Back: How to Energize American Jewry, as well as his latest book, Conspiracy U: A Case Study.
He is also the co-founder and chairman of Signature Bank.
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Avi Melamed is a former Israeli Intelligence Official and Senior Official on Arab Affairs, which propelled him to expertise on current affairs in the Arab and Muslim worlds, and their impact on Israel and the Middle East.
In recent years, Melamed runs a U.S.-based organization called Inside the Middle East – Intelligence Perspectives, alongside Maia Hoffman — providing professional, apolitical, non-partisan, intelligence-based contextualized education and knowledge about the Middle East.
He has also authored three books in English about the Middle East, his latest one titled Inside the Middle East – Entering a New Era, which was published in February 2022.
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Karen Cinnamon is the founder of Smashing Life, the fastest-growing community membership club for Jewish and Jew(ish) women, as well as Smashing The Glass, the world’s biggest Jewish wedding platform.
With offices in New York City and London, they create warm, inclusive communities for like-minded Jewish and Jew-ish women to learn, grow, and support one another, and build the joyful Jew(ish) life they want, on their terms.
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Richard Ferrer is a British journalist and editor of Britain’s Jewish News.
After working for the website totallyjewish.com from 2000 to 2004, he edited the Boston Jewish Advocate, the United States’ oldest Jewish newspaper, before returning to the U.K.
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Lt. Col. (res.) Avital Leibovichhas been the Director of American Jewish Committee Jerusalem since 2014.
Previously, she served for more than 20 years in a wide range of senior media and public relations positions within the Israel Defense Forces.
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Rabbi David Wolpe is the Senior Rabbi at Sinai Temple in Los Angeles, and has taught at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, the American Jewish University, Hunter College, and UCLA.
Wolpe is also the author of eight books, including the national bestseller, Making Loss Matter: Creating Meaning in Difficult Times.
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Meredith Jacobs is the CEO of Jewish Women International, as well as an award-winning journalist and former editor-in-chief of Washington Jewish Week.
She authored The Modern Jewish Mom’s Guide to Shabbat and co-authored, with her daughter Sofie, a bestselling series of interactive journals called Just Between Us.
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Rabbi Mitchel Malkus has served as Head of School at the Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School of Greater Washington, D.C. since 2013.
Malkus is also co-chair of the Advisory Board of the Consortium for Applied Studies in Jewish Education located at George Washington University.
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Following her father's sudden passing in 2013, Nikki Schreiber decided to do something in his memory, so she created an Instagram account called Humans of Judaism, which shares remarkable stories of Jews from across the world.
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Rabbi Elie Kaunfer is President and CEO of the Hadar Institute, whose mission is to empower Jews to create and sustain vibrant, practicing, egalitarian communities of Torah, Avodah, and Hesed.
Kaunfer is also a co-founder of the independent minyan Kehilat Hadar and has been named multiple times to Newsweek’s list of the top 50 rabbis in America.
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Dr. Hal Lewis has been both an extremely successful nonprofit executive, and a highly regarded professor of leadership — over a career that has spanned more than three decades.
Most recently, he completed more than a decade as the President and CEO of Chicago’s Spertus College/Spertus Institute.
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Dana Levinson Steiner is Director of ACCESS Global at American Jewish Committee, where she oversees an international program to engage young professionals through transformative leadership development, hands-on advocacy, and philanthropy.
Dr. Laura Shaw Frank serves as AJC’s Director of William Petschek Contemporary Jewish Life.
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Simon Plosker is the Managing Editor of UN Watch, a nonprofit organization dedicated to holding the United Nations accountable to its founding principles. From 2005 to 2020, he was Managing Editor of HonestReporting following several years working in a variety of nonprofit organizations, and immigrating to Israel from London in 2001.
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Zvika Klein is a Jewish world analyst for The Jerusalem Post, and is considered one of the world's top journalists specializing in Jewish Diaspora affairs.
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Robert Aronson served as Executive Vice President of the Jewish Federation of Detroit from 1989 to 2009, as well as Chief Development Advisor of the Federation until his retirement in 2019.
During this period, he also held positions as President of Birthright Israel and President of the Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life in New York from 2007 to 2014.
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Rachel Gildiner is the CEO GatherDC, an organization in Washington D.C. that helps Jewish young adults find connection to community and to a compelling Jewish life.
Formerly of Hillel International, she brings more than a decade of experience developing new ways to use the power of relationships to develop deeper connections to one another and to the Jewish community.
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Dan Libenson is the founder and executive director of Judaism Unbound. He is also the co-host of the "Judaism Unbound" podcast and The Oral Talmud videocast.
Libenson was Executive Director of the University of Chicago Hillel for six years and Director of New Initiatives at Harvard Hillel for three years. He is a 2009 AVI CHAI Fellow and has also received the Richard M. Joel Exemplar of Excellence award, Hillel International's highest professional honor.
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Rabbi Dr. Simcha Feuerman is a clinical psychologist in private practice, specializing in high-conflict couples and families and male sexual health. He is also the creator of “Psychology of the Daf Yomi,” a podcast and video series in which he connects mindset and psyche with daily teachings of the Talmud.
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Daniel Sokatch has served as the CEO of the New Israel Fund since 2009. Before joining NIF, he served as the Executive Director of the Jewish Federation of the Bay Area, as well as founding Executive Director of the Progressive Jewish Alliance (now Bend the Arc).
Sokatch is the author of the book, Can We Talk About Israel: A Guide for the Curious, Confused, and Conflicted.
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Rivka Malka Perlman is a transformation coach, national speaker, and mother of eight who seeks to authentically celebrate the Divine with every life experience. As the eighth of nine children, she grew up in an Orthodox Jewish home, and continues to practice Orthodox Judaism today.
When Perlman endured a near-death experience during the birth of her youngest child, she felt a new sense of mission. In her recovery, she found a new awareness of G-d’s love and how this love heals, embraces, and informs every part of our experience of life. Perlman set out on a journey to help others discover the beauty in this joyous take on life.
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Raphael Shore is a Canadian-Israeli film writer, producer, and rabbi. He is the founder of OpenDor Media (formerly Jerusalem U) — a Jewish educational organization —as well as the Clarion Project, whose mission is to expose the dangers of extremism.
His award-winning feature films have been seen on Netflix, PBS, CNN, MSNBC, FOXNews, Comcast, EL AL airplanes, and hundreds of film festivals internationally. His films include Beneath the Helmet, Hummus! The Movie, Obsession, Sustainable Nation, When the Smoke Clears, and Honor Diaries.
Prior to these endeavors, he was the COO of Aish International.
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Rabbi Dr. Benji Levy is a founding partner of Israel Impact Partners, which works with funders to accelerate the growth of the non-profits they care about.
Levy served as CEO of Mosaic United, a historic joint venture partnership between Israel and global Jewry to strengthen Jewish identity and connections to Israel for youth around the world. Previously, he served for six years as the Dean of Moriah College in Sydney, Australia, one of the largest Jewish schools in the world with over 1,800 pre-kindergarten through high school students and 300 staff.
Levy was named as one of three top global change-makers working for Diaspora Jewry by leading Israeli newspaper, Makor Rishon, and awarded "Educator of the Year" by JNF for his leadership and service to the Australian Jewish community. He received an Australian Postgraduate Award for his research in Jewish identity and published "An Oasis In Time: Seven Thoughts for the Seventh Day" with Maggid Books and Koren Publishing.
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Gali Cooks is the founding president and chief executive officer of Leading Edge, an organization formed to influence, inspire, and enable dramatic change in attracting, developing, and retaining top talent for Jewish organizations. To Leading Edge, Gali brings extensive professional experience in the nonprofit, public, and private sectors.
Her career began in Washington, DC, where she was a speechwriter at the Embassy of Israel and worked as a Legislative Assistant at AIPAC. She was Founding Director of the PJ Library at the Grinspoon Foundation and also served as Executive Director of the Rita J. & Stanley H. Kaplan Family Foundation, overseeing the distribution of millions of philanthropic dollars.
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Oren Jacobson launched Project Shema to help build bridges between the Jewish community and the progressive movement.
His grandfather was among the 10-percent of Polish Jews to survive World War II, making his life a statistical improbability. This truth guides and motivates Jacobson to "live a life worthy of the Jewish lives lost for the crime of being a Jew, dedicated to supporting, strengthening, and protecting all who are attacked for the crime of being who they are."
He lives near Chicago with his wife Betsy, an ER Doctor, as well as with their son Noah Lincoln, and their dogs, who are named after great champions for justice, Eleanor Roosevelt and Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
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Yossi Klein Halevi is a senior fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. Together with Imam Abdullah Antepli of Duke University, he co-directs the Institute's Muslim Leadership Initiative, which teaches emerging young Muslim American leaders about Judaism, Jewish identity, and Israel.
Halevi’s 2013 book, Like Dreamers, won the Jewish Book Council's Everett Book of the Year Award. His latest book, Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor, is a New York Times bestseller. He writes for leading op-ed pages in the US, including the Times and the Wall Street Journal, and is a former contributing editor to the New Republic.
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Canadian-based Peter Ekstein is the founder of the Jewish Year of Service program, which sends Jewish recent high school grads to Israel for a year of service.
It all started with his fear that the Canadian Jewish community is becoming less cohesive, thanks to rising rates of intermarriage, the falling rates of participation in Jewish institutions — like synagogues, day schools and summer camps — and the growing divide in attitudes towards Israel between older and younger Jews.
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Aliza Kline is the co-founder and CEO of OneTable which, since 2014, has grown to a national organization that engages tens of thousands Jewish young adults through peer-led Shabbat dinners.
From the onset of the Coronavirus pandemic, OneTable has expanded to serve the broader community — most recently by launching HereFor.com, a platform to enable individuals to find alternative High Holiday celebrations.
Also the founding executive director of Mayyim Hayyim (mayyimhayyim.org), Kline has devoted her career to re-imagining Jewish ritual open to the full diversity of the community.
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Gidi Grinstein is the founder and president of The Reut Institute, a Tel Aviv based non-profit and non-partisan institution, described by Tom Friedman of the New York Times as, "Israel's premier strategy group."
Before founding Reut, Grinstein served as Secretary and Coordinator of the Israeli negotiation team on the Permanent Status Agreement between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization in the Office, and later in the Bureau, of Prime Minister Ehud Barak ('99–'01).
Some of Grinstein's chief achievements over the last 15 years include forming and training a cadre of leaders, designing the Birthright Israel program ('95-'99), and contributing to the reform of Israel's electoral system. Grinstein is a graduate of Tel-Aviv University in Economics ('91) and Law ('99) and of Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government as a Wexner Israel Fellow ('02).
He is a Captain (Res.) in the Israeli Navy and a former volunteer police officer. In 2013, Grinstein published his first book, “Flexigidity: The Secret of Jewish Adaptability & Challenge and Opportunity Facing Israel."
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