Be grateful, Torres tells 600 Touro University grads
Touro University graduated nearly 600 students last Sunday at the 51st Annual Commencement Exercises, held at Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center. Rep. Ritchie Torres, a Bronx Democrat who is a …
SCHOOLS
At YU graduation, top honor goes to Stefanik
Rep. Elise Stefanik, one of the leading voices in Congress denouncing Jew-hatred, received Yeshiva University’s highest honor — its presidential medallion — during the …
Shavuot
Judaism, Zionism and the environment at Shavuot
As Shavuot approaches, we celebrate not only the giving of the Torah — the covenant between the Jewish people and God — and the Festival of the Harvest, which marks the end of the wheat …
on campus
‘By any means necessary’
The deranged and depraved pro-Hamas constituencies on Ivy League campuses have taken many liberties with their “higher” education over the past 20 months. What tops the list is a twisted …
gaza war
Douglas Murray: Israel can’t leave Hamas in Gaza
Despite mounting international pressure and war costs, Israel cannot afford to end its war “with Hamas in power in any form,” British public intellectual Douglas Murray told JNS last …
history
From the BLM riots to DC shooting in 5 years
The path that led Elias Rodriguez, a 31-year-old college-educated Hispanic man with a professional career working for a medical organization, to embrace a belief in “Free Palestine” …
food
Jamie Geller’s perfect Jerusalem cheesecake
On May 19, two weeks before Shavuot, celebrity chef and cookbook author Jamie Geller, who is now the chief communications officer of Aish, set out with her team (including the writer of this …
gaza war
Braving ‘smelly’ protests, 55K walk in Toronto
Sara Lefton, the chief development officer at the UJA Federation of Greater Toronto, estimates that 6,000 more people — a total of 56,000 — marched at this year’s Walk with Israel …
gaza war
The insane imagining of the imagined ‘Palestine’
At the 2023 Palestine Book Awards ceremony, the winner of the “Counter Current Award” category was the volume “Imagining Palestine,” which concerns itself with a …
gaza war
Bedouin voices cry out, ‘Their Islam is not ours’
On the blood-soaked morning of Oct. 7, 2023, Hamid Abu Ar’ar was driving from his home in a Bedouin town in the Negev with his pregnant wife, Fatma, their seven-month-old baby and a coworker. …
Opinion
Creeping dangers of AI: A Jewish perspective
As the European Union finalizes a new AI code of practice, set to be released in weeks, governments across Europe are waking up to the urgency of regulation. •Globally, we are seeing …
politics
Levin gives Carlson a well-earned dressing-down
Tucker Carlson is a master of disingenuousness, to put it generously. That’s why the only viewers still charmed by his trademark deer-in-the-headlights act are those on the right who champion …
opinion
Challenges to brit milah are not always threats
It seems that brit milah is under attack again. Police in Antwerp, Belgium, raided the home of two Haredi mohels on May 14, confiscating their knives and demanding a list of the circumcisions …
kosher kitchen
All creamy, some sweet: The food of Shavuot
I love the story of Shavuot. As a child, I think it was the drama, the fire and thunder that attracted me, and the heroism and sad ending for Moses, who ultimately was denied entry to the Promised …
history
Biblical blue dye search told in a visitors center
KFAR ADUMIM, Israel — It was four decades ago that three childhood friends from New Jersey who had immigrated to Israel heard of a young Jerusalem rabbinical student who was looking for scuba …
opinion
To reject Zionism is to reject a core of Judaism
Imagine someone saying that every country in the world, no matter how bloody or concocted their origins, has a right to exist except Israel. Then imagine that person saying it’s not …
schools
Hatikvah on 5th
An estimated 40,000 people, including members of Congress and the Knesset, Israeli ministers, local public officials and former hostages and their families, lined Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue on …
travel
French Jews bring solidarity to new heights
“I wanted to prove that it’s still possible to achieve great things,” said Charlie Taieb, creator of Minyan Everest, an initiative that brings Jewish prayer to the highest peaks on …
antisemitism
Italian pizzeria markets slice of anti-Israel bile
The danger is no longer lurking; it’s here, clear and undeniable. What happened recently in Italy is just another alarming signal. A pizzeria owner, proud of her anti-Israel stance, …
This week in Torah
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‘Bullying’ words as well as sticks can hurt us
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It’s our eternal ancestral heritage, our home
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Sounding of the shofar, igniting a spirit of unity
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Free markets are good, but there are limits
As the saying goes, “There’s nothing surer: the rich get rich and the poor get poorer.” It is to this phenomenon that the social legislation of Parshat Behar is addressed. …
Jonathan Tobin
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Send Barstool haters to Israel, not Auschwitz
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Antisemites are still proving why we need Israel
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Do not fear Project Esther: The ugly truth is that pro-Palestinian now means anti-Jewish
A s far as groups like Jewish Voice for Peace and the Nexus Project — and their cheering section at the New York Times — are concerned, what the Heritage Foundation is doing is pretty …
Ben Cohen
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When did current wave of antisemitism begin?
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Their spectacle is hate: Kneecap gets kneecapped
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Whatever ‘nakba’ might be, it’s not our problem
A smattering of Arabic words has entered the English language in recent years, the direct result of more than a century of conflict between the Zionist movement and Arab regimes determined to prevent …
Kosher Bookworm
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Sefiros: A Jewish morally-based math lesson
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This is a season for real miracles — and learning
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Liberty Bell and this week’s Torah connection
The origin of the verse inscribed on the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia is in Behar, one of this week’s parshiot. Its theme speaks to the ideological foundations of our republic, of freedom and …
On Campus
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Wake up, Harvard U: Woke will make you broke!
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Trump joins US colleges in selling out to Qatar
Editor’s note: With the president planning to accept a 400-million-dollar gift and uncounted hundreds of millions in business benefits from Qatar, it’s useful to consider Qatar’s …
More Opinion Columns
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The real lesson of the attack on Josh Shapiro
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To explain Zionism, you need to explain Palestinians
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At LI museum, butterflies link Shoah and Oct 7
While most people today know something about the Holocaust, future generations will not have the opportunity to hear firsthand accounts from survivors. Nevertheless, we’ll need to keep the …
Food: Dining In
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Celebrating Israel’s art of the brew in Galilee
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All creamy, some sweet: The food of Shavuot
I love the story of Shavuot. As a child, I think it was the drama, the fire and thunder that attracted me, and the heroism and sad ending for Moses, who ultimately was denied entry to the Promised …
Travel
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On your next trip, check modern Israel’s history
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French Jews bring solidarity to new heights
“I wanted to prove that it’s still possible to achieve great things,” said Charlie Taieb, creator of Minyan Everest, an initiative that brings Jewish prayer to the highest peaks on …
Health
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Behind stats for Mental Health Awareness Month
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Support group: No child should face cancer alone
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After Biden diagnosis, advice from St. John’s
In response to former President Joe Biden’s recent diagnosis with an aggressive form of prostate cancer, the chief of hematology/oncology at Episcopal Health Services’ St. John’s …