Gaza War

Black and blue and betrayed all over

T he tale I’m about to tell started out as a feel-good movie of the week and ended up as a two-hanky tearjerker of bitterness and betrayal. From solidarity to the nearly unsalvageable, within a …

Gaza War

Bowman flips just a bit on his 10/7 denialism

One of Israel’s most implacable foes in Congress — Rep. Jamaal Bowman of the Bronx and Westchester — slightly reversed his view that not only was Israel to blame for Oct. 7 but that …

Gaza War

Recognizing a truth: War is hell. Everywhere.

War, the Union Army Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman is famously said to have told a group of army cadets some years after the American Civil War, “is hell.” More than a century and a half …

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Religious women in Judea-Samaria armor up

Religious women living on the frontlines in Judea and Samaria are taking up arms to defend their homes, particularly after the Oct. 7 massacre. Srugim, a news site catering to the religious …

Politics 2024

Schumer ends run as a ‘shomer Yisroel’

Whenever I speak to Israelis, whether from the left or right, I hear the same refrain: Israel’s war in Gaza is against a vicious terror army that represents an existential threat; a terror army …

Gaza War

Why have Jews in US remained nonviolent?

Purim was subdued for many due to Israel’s ongoing war against Hamas, the trauma of Oct. 7 and the massive rise in antisemitism driven by the pro-Hamas fifth column in many countries. Several …

Holidays

Teenage drinking at Purim: Tale of the tape

With Purim approaching, we thought it might be helpful to consider the importance of speaking with your children about drinking. It’s an unpleasant topic, one that we parents might want to …

Food

How lox became quintessential Jewish dish

It’s the American Jewish classic that goes way beyond Sunday-morning breakfasts with the whole mishpacha . Lox and bagels with a schmear of cream cheese has become a universal staple for …

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The West’s tragic abandonment of the Jews

With every day that passes, it becomes ever clearer that Western civilization is no longer civilized. Israel’s war of defense against a genocidal enemy is an inflection point in the …

commentary

Et tu Schumer? Our ‘shomer’ attacks Netanyahu

“Beware the ides of March,” warns the Soothsayer in Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar.” Caesar dismisses the warning, ignorant of the fact that his enemies are plotting …

Gaza War

CUNY pulls Jew-hatred definitions from its bias reporting portal

On Oct. 11, four days after Hamas terrorists attacked Israel, the City University of New York’s portal for reporting discrimination and retaliation included both the International …

Gaza War

Facing a disaster that is Schumer’s 2-state fix

A mid a volley of paternalistic insults lobbed at Israelis, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer egregiously attempted to resuscitate the two-state solution. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu must …

Gaza War

3 of our eshet chayil

I recently watched a YouTube video filmed last year in which a Jewish woman tried to have a respectful conversation with a virulently anti-Israel student at UC Berkeley. I was in awe of her …

Torah

Feeling Adar’s joy, despite all the pain

The Talmud advises that when Adar comes in, we increase in joy. But how can we celebrate when our brothers and sisters in Israel are in danger, displaced, fighting for their lives, besieged and …

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Great Neckers host terror victims’ bat mitzvah

Twenty inspired women from Great Neck recently partnered to create a moving bat mitzvah party in Jerusalem for 22 girls, all victims of terror. The story began with survivors of the Oct. 7 Nova …

Gaza War

Not too soon for humor in a post-Oct. 7 world

Theodor Adorno, the German philosopher of Jewish descent, famously called poetry after Auschwitz “barbaric.” Experts told JNS that there’s still room for humor in a post-Oct. 7 …

Gaza War

Media and pols malign our humanitarian army

The following headline — an unsubstantiated lie — exemplifies how the media mislead millions of readers into believing that the Israel Defense Forces is a brutal, vengeful army that …

Gaza War

Probe explodes myth that Israel is targeting journalists: A blood libel within a blood libel

Despite Israel’s herculean efforts to avoid killing noncombatants in the Gaza Strip, a new wrinkle has been added to media charges of indiscriminate Israeli killing — a kind of blood …

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