The ground phase of Operation Swords of Iron, Israel’s response to Hamas’ Oct. 7 terror rampage, seems ready to launch at any time. Israel has already begun to conduct raids — “thunder runs” — deep into enemy territory. The fighting…
Israel next faces the compelling existential urgency to undertake a very horrible ground invasion into Gaza. Had she done it 15 or even 10 years ago, it would have been like the way Ariel Sharon crushed the “Palestine Authority’s” PLO…
At the end of World War II, there were millions of refugees in Europe. Some, like the Italian Primo Levi, managed to find their way back home, pull themselves together, and pick up where they left off. At first my…
President Biden is, as we would expect, completely preoccupied with the wars in Ukraine and Israel. Though the wars are not the same — one is for conquest, the other for genocide — they have one horrible common factor: the…
Progressives and the universities that produce them are suddenly and unexpectedly paying a price for decades of Israel hating on campus. Who knew? Major university donors and board members are breaking affiliation with schools that have soft-peddled Hamas terrorism. They…
Last week, you read here a crucial excerpt from Hamas’s 1987 charter which set out its belief that its enemy was not the Israeli but the Jew. In doing so, Hamas indicated that it was not just engaged in seeking…
I wanted to be a rabbi all my life, since I was a boy. There are many reasons, extraneous to this article. But I was “called” to clergy. When I wedded in the 25-year marriage, doomed from its first day…
It was just another day on the Ukrainian front. Russian shells rained down on Nikopol, the U.S. announced its determination that Russian President Vladimir Putin wasn’t planning on launching nuclear weapons for at least the foreseeable future, and CNN dutifully…
When the Gaza hospital story first appeared, mainstream media outlets reported it in the same way as did the New York Times, which ran a front-page headline reading: “Israeli Strike Kills Hundreds in Hospital, Palestinians Say.” The average reader of…
