3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (219+ words) “Israel is united with both Greece and Cyprus against Islamic extremism in the region led by Turkey,” Israeli Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism Minister Amichai Chikli told a visiting delegation from the National Association of Christian Lawmakers on Tuesday. Turkey’s…...

4+ day, 12+ hour ago   (841+ words) What is Zionism? Who is a Zionist? Are Jews abandoning Zionism? What do we do about anti-Zionism? The debate is incessant, and ultimately pointless. I am going to put my head on the chopping block voluntarily by suggesting that it…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1040+ words) Dana Nessel, the Michigan attorney general, misunderstood the biblical story of Queen Esther when she told fellow Jewish Democrats in the state on Sunday that the lesson of the Purim holiday text was that they have a “moral imperative” to…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (608+ words) In 1897, more than 200 Jewish delegates from 17 countries (including five Americans) gathered in Basel, Switzerland, for three days—from Aug. 29 to Aug. 31—for an audacious purpose: to transform the ancient Jewish longing for Zion into an organized political movement. Convened by…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (508+ words) In the face of rising anti-Zionism and a troubling wave of antisemitism, two Catholic theologians have issued a public appeal that should matter deeply to Jews. Father Antoine Lévy, a Dominican theologian, and Dr. André Villeneuve, a biblical scholar and…...

3+ week, 21+ hour ago   (758+ words) Last Sunday morning, Jewish worshippers ascended the Temple Mount carrying Jewish prayer books. That this is news should itself be astonishing. So the prohibition has not disappeared. But another part of it has cracked. Consider what Israel is actually “experimenting…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (503+ words) This month, the Jewish people lost another hero. Maj. (res.) Harel Birenstock, 34, a graduate of our Neveh Shmuel Yeshiva High School, fell in Lebanon in defense of Israel, leaving behind his wife and four children. Some of his children held…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (819+ words) On Nov. 14, 2023, barely five weeks after the horrors of Oct. 7, nearly 300,000 American Jews gathered for the March for Israel on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. They came to stand with Israel, to demand the release of the hostages and to…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (862+ words) Prayers turned into shouts as an assailant forced his way into New York City’s Central Synagogue during Friday-night Shabbat services on Aug. 14 and attacked a congregant and a guard. An hour earlier, worshippers walked past metal detectors, armed guards and…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (534+ words) T’ruah calls itself a Zionist organization. Yet its recent actions, increasingly legitimizing individuals, organizations and ideas that reject Zionism and deny the legitimacy of Israel’s continued existence as a Jewish state suggest otherwise. The decisions T’ruah has made in recent…...