Racist presidential humor, then and now
Unfortunately, racist humor among presidents is not a new phenomenon; it dates back to at least a century ago. The difference between then and now is that such remarks used to be made only in private, not in public.
Oslo abandons the Oslo Accords
The Norwegian capital of Oslo, where the accords between Israel and the Palestinian Arab leadership were negotiated thirty-three years ago, became their burial site this week.
Opening Rafah while Hamas is armed repeats a deadly mistake
Opening the Rafah border crossing while Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad continue to be fully armed benefits the terrorists more than anyone.
As we celebrate the return of Ran Gvili’s remains, where are Eli Cohen’s?
More than any other one man, Eli Cohen, an Egyptian-born Jew, earned the Mossad its reputation as one of the best intelligence services in the world, and paved the way for Israel to win on the Golan front in the Six-Day War in June 1967.
When Christian friends asked me to bless them in Hebrew
At the end of a Friday night Shabbat meal in America, a group of Christian Zionists turned to me and asked something I didn’t expect.
How to be delightful (a lesson in lipstick)
My 15-year-old resident makeup expert is skilled not only in the art of cosmetics, but also in that of a finely tuned compliment. If only she were running the world
This is how American students learn to hate Israel
When the history of the post–October 7 explosion of Israel-bashing and antisemitism on American college campuses is written, historians will not need to look far to understand how students were radicalized against Israel before ever stepping into a college lecture hall.
The Jewish people are not fragile
It is difficult to argue that Christians wearing tzitzit, using Hebrew names, or misunderstanding korban Pesach constitute an existential threat to the Jewish people.
Scientists reset the Doomsday Clock to 85 seconds before midnight. But God, not man, controls the end
Humanity stands 85 seconds from annihilation, according to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, which moved the infamous Doomsday Clock forward by four seconds on Tuesday—the closest it has been to midnight in its nearly 80-year history.
Anti-Israel camp exposed as virtue-signaling frauds
There is a strange moral blindness spreading across the West. The loudest voices claiming to defend “human rights” seem able to see only one alleged crime in the entire Middle East, and it always belongs to Israel.