Some might argue that the old democratic socialists were comfortable with an Israel governed by the Labor Party – then a proud member of the Socialist International – during an era when the kibbut ...

If a person has an optimistic attitude, the cognitive bias will seek reasons to feel better. It is an inescapable factor in human consciousness that the attitude itself shapes the outcome.

The sense that Israel should give up trying to eradicate Hamas and that Hamas’s fictions had to be taken seriously despite its history of fabrications and staged crises was palpable and not at all h ...

It is being alleged that President Obama intended to scuttle the FBI’s investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private e-mail server and mishandling of highly classified information during h ...

In the war of ideas, we don't have an army . . . if we lose in the battle of ideas, then we won't be able to win in the battle on the ground.– Naftali Bennett interview with The Jewish Press ...

The influential Columbia University professor and Palestinian political activist, Edward Said, characterized Israel’s founding as a manifestation of Western imperialism.

The suggestion that Einstein be invited to assume the presidency of the Jewish State was first publicly disseminated by the evening newspaper Maariv. The idea, which spread quickly, became broadly pop ...

When the ego dominates, we instinctively sacrifice our true selves to avoid discomfort or looking foolish. Shame, in contrast, exists in private—it is an internal reckoning, the pain of knowing we'v ...

Bret Stephens’s recent New York Times column, “No, Israel Is Not Committing a Genocide in Gaza,” attempts to dispel this inflammatory charge against the Jewish state. His argument is t ...

I was taught to make a Kiddush Hashem no matter where I stand; in a parking lot among our own, or as the only Jew in town. Space doesn’t define sanctity. Behavior does. Especially when no one’s wa ...

The daf yomi to be cited below doesn’t address this even indirectly, but provides a solution very directly. In a world saturated with the stench of antisemitism, with the allegation of genocide by ...

Over the years, musicians and singers have offered their interpretations of the tune used for “Eli Tziyon ,” so there are a few performances of this kinnah. The structure of the kinnah is an acrostic ...