Israel votes in five weeks. Its American voters could decide who wins.
Americans are watching their own midterms, but Israel votes first in one of its closest and least predictable elections in memory. Some 400,000 English-speaking Israelis, many of them Americans, represent roughly four Knesset seats.
The nations in an uproar: Israel stands alone at the 81st General Assembly
World leaders spent the opening day of the 81st General Assembly targeting Israel, calling Israel’s war against Hamas “genocide,” while President Trump, in a 38-minute speech built around the war with Iran, mentioned Israel exactly once.
One horrible sentence, one lame correction, doesn’t help The New York Times’ long record of anti-Israel bias
The sentence appeared directly after the article had already stated the plain facts: that roughly 1,200 people were killed and about 250 were taken hostage. This means the newspaper had the truth on the page and chose to frame it as a matter of Israeli self-perception rather than settled fact.
Lawmakers say they answer to God, not the algorithm
West Virginia Congressman Riley Moore stood in front of a room of conservative activists this month and made an admission rarely heard from anyone on Capitol Hill: he does not consider his voters his first boss.
On the holiest day, terror found Jews everywhere and stopped pretending it was about politics
By the time Yom Kippur ended, an Israeli father of six was killed, a police officer in Ontario lay critically wounded outside a synagogue, a Connecticut town line was covered in swastikas, and a German synagogue had been firebombed.
The only Jewish girl on the team: Remembering Nancy Morgenstern 25 years later
A quarter of a century has passed since September 11th 2001. Yet for anyone who has actually lost someone, the number on the calendar barely matters. The ache a mother feels for her daughter is the same whether it has been five years or a hundred.
Christian lawmakers conclude eight-day delegation to Galilee and Golan Heights, call on American Christians to visit
Leaders with the National Association of Christian Lawmakers (NACL) concluded an eight-day delegation to Israel’s north on September 5, meeting with mayors, Druze leaders, farmers, bereaved families, and residents rebuilding communities battered by Hezbollah attacks.
Mamdani’s ceremonial 9/11 pen goes to the chief counsel who defended al-Qaeda
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani handed the ceremonial pen from a 9/11 remembrance ceremony to his chief counsel Friday, a lawyer who once represented a convicted al-Qaeda operative whose brother-in-law hijacked American Airlines Flight 77 and flew it into the Pentagon.
Vance doubts his own salvation, says end times could be near, “Antichrist” could be among us
Vice President J.D. Vance told a Christian podcaster this week that he is not entirely sure he is going to heaven.
Met cancels Galliano exhibit after backlash over honoring designer who praised Hitler
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has canceled its planned solo exhibition honoring British designer John Galliano, ending months of escalating backlash from the Jewish community over the museum’s decision to build its 2027 Met Gala around a designer with a history of antisemitic and racist statements.