Poland’s parliament on Holocaust Day: Israeli flag with swastika instead of Jewish star
On the same day Holocaust survivors walked the grounds of Auschwitz-Birkenau for the annual March of the Living, a Polish lawmaker stood before his parliament, held up an Israeli flag , with the Magen David (Star of David) replaced by a swastika, and declared Israel “a new Third Reich.” The timing was not accidental.
After years of attacks on Zionism, human rights groups recognize the global significance of Israel’s Declaration of Independence
Two human rights organizations have formally recognized the exceptional global significance of Israel’s Declaration of Independence, describing it as a foundational milestone for human dignity, civil liberties, and the right to self-determination.
What I told a room full of American combat veterans in Jerusalem
A few years ago, at Ramat Rachel, a beautiful kibbutz on the southern edge of Jerusalem, the kind of place that seems almost designed for healing, I sat with a group of American combat veterans, men and women who had served in Iraq and Afghanistan.
In the Ruins of Be’eri, Israel Trains for the Next October 7
Days before Passover, with missiles still falling from Iran, Lebanon, and Yemen, heads of local security teams from across southern Israel gathered in Be’eri—one of the communities most devastated on October 7,—for an advanced training session with Magen 48.
The war with Iran is over. For orphans in Israel, the fear isn’t.
The missiles Iran fired at Israel are not an abstraction to the children at Alumim Children’s Home in Kfar Chabad. They are a memory. The ceasefire came. The fear didn’t leave with it.
Israeli judge: Korban Pesach/Paschal lamb protest is legal, not criminal
The court recognized what many prefer to ignore: the desire to restore the Korban Pesach is not fringe. It is grounded in the text, in halacha, and in the enduring identity of the Jewish people.
“God is good”: the Easter Sunday miracle over Iran
When an injured U.S. Air Force colonel, bleeding and hunted by Iranian forces in the Zagros Mountains, finally made radio contact after 36 hours behind enemy lines, he said three words: “God is good.” Those three words nearly derailed his own rescue.
Miracle mixed in with tragedy: four members of one family murdered in Haifa in IRGC missile attack
Officials said the warhead, which carried hundreds of kilograms of explosives, did not detonate on impact, a fact that prevented far greater destruction and likely saved dozens of additional lives, even as the kinetic force alone proved deadly.
Trump, NATO, and the Turkey in the room
Expel Turkey from the NATO alliance and bring in Cyprus and Israel as members.
NPR flew to Lebanon to interview a synagogue terrorist’s family and never once called the synagogue
NPR is publicly funded. American taxpayers, including American Jews, pay for it. The children who fled that Michigan preschool in terror deserved to have their story told. Their parents deserved to be asked how they felt.