I grew up inside a political machine. My father and the friends he came up with ran the Brooklyn machine reformers love to denounce. I know what a machine looks like from the inside, how it rewards … more

Shockingly, only 37% of American Jews consider themselves Zionists — believers in the fundamental, millennia-long aspiration of the Jewish people for liberation. … more

I reached out to a family foundation about Holocaust education programming, including an upcoming webinar … more

Imagine what would happen if a known antisemite like Mayor Zohran Mamdani, Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan or white supremacist David Duke mocked … more

American businessman Ronald S. Lauder stood at the Jerusalem Post conference in New York earlier this month and said what many have been saying for years. Since Oct. 7, Jewish organizations in the … more

I have written about this before, and unfortunately it is time to revisit it again. We had been living through constant attacks from Iran, from Hezbollah in Lebanon, periodic clashes with Hamas … more

Everyone has his or her own voice. Some express it loudly and clearly, some mumble or whisper. Our voices can be expressed through speech, the written word, postures and gestures, and song. In a … more

The story of Bilaam, the pagan prophet, begins with a bewildering set of non-sequiturs. It involves a sequence of events that seems to have no logic. First, the background. The Israelites are … more

I am writing this at 4:30 in the morning because my kids got up and are watching Torah videos. I grumpily tell my wife that they need to get back into a routine. Where is that red-light green-light … more

It seemed so close. So tantalizingly, maddeningly close. The end of the Iranian regime will, however, have to wait for another day and perhaps another president in the distant future. Over the … more