Twenty-one-year-old Zvika Greengold had just been accepted into the prestigious Company Commanders course and given two weeks’ leave. He was home on his Kibbutz Lohamei HaGeta’ot near … more

The two old men couldn’t have been more different from each other. Yet they both taught me the identical life lesson. The first, a cagey old Irishman, was one of my mentors in the … more

For the past 40-odd years, two narratives have guided American Middle East policy. Both were invented by the Carter administration. One relates to Iran. One relates to Israel. Both narratives … more

When I was growing up in Jerusalem, Israel was practically a third world country. Since then, it’s leap-frogged into today’s “Startup Nation.” One of the ways in which … more

Rep. Ilhan Omar had a big first full week of January this year. On Tuesday, the freshman Democrat from Minneosta was elected Stopantisemitism.org’s anti-Semite of the year for 2019.  … more

No matter how many times the think-tank “experts” are proven wrong in their predictions regarding the Arab-Israeli conflict, they keep promoting the same old myths. The Jerusalem … more

Top American and Israeli political figures announced major policy changes at last week’s Kohelet Policy Forum in Jerusalem. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo opened the conference by … more

About 1,800 people came to the Sands Atlantic Beach on Jan. 5 to salute Achiezer and those honored at its “My Brother, My Helper” gala.  more

It is progress of sorts. This week, one of the leading magazines of the American left published an article that took the phenomenon of anti-Semitism seriously. I call it progress because for a … more

One day during a visit to Martha’s Vineyard many years ago, we took our kids to a pier and, while I was distracted for a nano-second, my then 14-month old took off … more