Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads the weekly cabinet meeting, at the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem, on Dec. 8, 2019. Photo by Marc Israel Sellem/POOL. by Alex Traiman (JNS) — On March 15, after a year of political deadlock, […]
by Melanie Phillips (JNS) — The point about events that catch us unawares is that we are never prepared for the unexpected to happen. Who would have thought that the entire world would suddenly be destabilized by one microbe? It […]
by Jahan Berns (Israel InSight) — I read the Bible for the very first time as a teenager attending a Christian all-girls boarding school, in Uganda. After reading the entire Bible in three days, I was sure of two things: […]
Secretaries of State at the Western Wall. Alabama’s John Merrill is third from left. by Richard Friedman (Israel InSight) — “The trip was tremendous. It was something I always wanted to do. I think it is something everybody should do. […]
A Tufts University sign at the intersection of College Avenue and Professors Row on Nov. 4, 2015. Photo by Alonso Nichols/Tufts University. by Jackson Richman (JNS) — A campaign at Tufts University calls for ending the school’s police department’s (TUPD) […]
Employees of Sheba Medical Center preparing to receive Israelis quarantined on the cruise ship Diamond Princess in Japan due to the spread of the coronavirus, February 20, 2020. Photo by Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90 by Abigail Klein Leichman (Israel21c) — A handwashing […]
by Ken Cohen (FLAME) — With the launching of more missiles and balloon-bombs from Gaza into Israel, some media are again fulminating about how Israel has turned Gaza into “the world’s largest open-air prison.” Of course, the reasoning goes, the […]
Israelis count the remaining ballots at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on March 4. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90. by Gideon Allon (Israel Hayom) — With 99.9 percent of the votes from the March 2 general election counted, Israel’s Central Election Committee […]
From left: Harvard Law School Professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz; Dan Diker, director of the Project on BDS and Political Warfare at the JCPA; and Israeli journalist Ben-Dror Yemini. Credit: Judy Lash Balint. by Judy Lash Balint (JNS) — With the […]
AIPAC CEO Howard Kohr speaking at the annual AIPAC Policy Conference in Washington, March 2. Credit: AIPAC. (JNS) WASHINGTON — The theme of this year’s AIPAC Policy Conference was billed as “Today. Tomorrow. Together,” the essence of which seemed to […]
A view of the team hiking across the snow fields on the top of Kilimanjaro. Credit: Friends of Access Israel. by Howard Blas (JNS) — When New York cardiologist Aaron Gindea read the entire Torah portion of Beshalach at the […]