In-Depth Issues

The aftermath of a party in southern Israel where hundreds of Israeli civilians were murdered by Hamas terrorists, Oct. 10, 2023. Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90. by Sean Durns (CAMERA) — Hamas and Israel are once again at war. For Israel, […]

Israel Supreme Court in Jerusalem, July 2021. Credit: Igal Vaisman/Shutterstock. by Alex Traiman (JNS) — Since the announcement of a package of proposed judicial reforms by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing government, a small protest movement quickly gained momentum, […]

Israel Supreme Court in Jerusalem, July 2021. Credit: Igal Vaisman/Shutterstock. by Alex Traiman (JNS) — In “Explaining Israel’s Crisis (Part 1): Why Reform the Supreme Court?,” we explored the reasons Israel’s new government put advancing judicial reform at the forefront […]

Israel Supreme Court in Jerusalem, July 2021. Credit: Igal Vaisman/Shutterstock. by Alex Traiman (JNS) — For the last several weeks, hundreds of thousands of Israelis have taken to the streets to protest a highly controversial package of judicial reforms being […]

The Knesset in Jerusalem, Feb. 22, 2023. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90. by David Isaac (JNS) — Professor Moshe Koppel, one of the architects of the Netanyahu government’s judicial reform program, spoke to JNS last week about why the reform is […]

Israeli Supreme Court building in Jerusalem. Credit: Israel Tourism via Wikimedia Commons. by Jerome Marcus (JNS) — Writing in the Tablet on Feb. 22, an Israeli scholar of the American political system claims that the proposed judicial reforms in Israel […]

(CAMERA) — American educators have long taught about the history, accomplishments and struggles of ethnic groups under the rubric of multicultural education. In this process, the American mosaic is presented as complex, hopeful, and as reinforcing the national credo, “E […]

by David Litman (CAMERA) — On June 13, the United Nation’s new Commission of Inquiry against Israel is scheduled to deliver its first report. Created after the conflict between Israel and Gaza terror groups in May 2021, the COI is […]

by Daniel Greenfield (JNS) — As far back as 2013, Pakistani Muslim terrorists plotted to take “foreign Jews” hostage to trade for “Lady Al-Qaeda.” In 2022, a Pakistani Muslim terrorist actually went out and did it. The hostage crisis at […]

By Richard Friedman Every Israeli is on the front lines. This Zionist truth, embedded in the Jewish psyche upon Israel’s rebirth in 1948 as a modern Jewish state, has never been more true than it is today. And one of […]

The Israeli city of Lod, where synagogues and cars were torched, and shops damaged, by Arab rioters, May 11, 2021. Photo by Yossi Aloni/Flash90. by Israel Kasnett (JNS) — The Israel Police instituted a blanket curfew on the central Israeli […]