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Jul 8, 2018, 4:14 AM

Inhumanity at the Top

It used to be the case that humans were inhuman to other humans. Now government has usurped that role. In the United States, land of the once-free and home of the once-brave, President Trump has created a very inhumane act...

Jun 28, 2018, 4:45 PM

Why the Right of Return is a recipe for war

The prospect of Donald Trump presenting a future US peace plan which excludes Jerusalem and Palestinian refugees has led to a single-minded focus by Palestinians and their supporters on their Right of Return. The leader of the UK opposition,...

Jun 21, 2018, 5:29 PM

Taking children from their parents

I’ve been thinking about the Kindertransport a lot lately. In 2013 I interviewed Sig Silber of Paterson, who then was a successful, well-rooted, and happy patent attorney with an engineering degree from MIT, a thriving family, and a flourishing legal...

Joanna M. Saidel

Jun 20, 2018, 9:08 PM

Does anyone remember the Altalena after 70 years?

TODAY IS THE 70th ANNIVERSARY OF THE SINKING OF THE IRGUN SHIP, ALTALENA. This incident marked the point of no return in the controversy between fledgling political parties at the time of Israeli statehood. Its repercussions reverberated for decades....

Moshe-Mordechai van Zuiden

Jun 20, 2018, 3:57 AM

The little ugly Zionism

Once upon a time, there was a very ugly lady. It's not nice to say but she really looked not so hot. No one liked her in any way whatsoever. At least, that's how it seemed. One day, however, it...

Andy Blumenthal

Jun 19, 2018, 12:11 AM

Please Don’t Burn Israel Anymore

So why does Hamas in Gaza keep sending thousands of incendiary kites and flaming balloons into Israel? On one hand, they claim a "March of Return" to Israel--even though it's the Jewish people that were forcibly expelled from just about...

Jun 18, 2018, 11:14 PM

The 2,000-year-old synagogue at Gamla, the oldest yet found in Israel.

Under a burning sun, I climb a rocky basalt ridge on the Golan Heights, surrounded by deep gorges, high above the Sea of Galilee, eager to view the ruins of the ancient city of Gamla. There is a fantastic...

Raymond M. Berger

Jun 17, 2018, 12:57 AM

The Refugees of the Aquarius versus the Struma

One group of refugees was fleeing to Europe while the other was seeking escape from Europe. Two ships filled with hundreds of desperate refugees. Both stranded at sea. Both groups of refugees are refused entry to their initial destination. For one ship,...

Jun 15, 2018, 11:45 PM

It would stand to reason that someone formerly Orthodox would not be inclined to wax nostalgic about when the Orthodox were “really religious”; usually that’s the province of those who have a vested pedagogical interest in maintaining the lifestyle...

Jun 6, 2018, 8:23 PM

A Tragic Anniversary: The End of Jewish Life in Libya

Fifty-one years ago this month, the world was transfixed by the Six-Day War raging between Israel and its Arab neighbors, triggered by genocidal threats from Cairo and Damascus to annihilate the Jewish state, troop mobilization toward Israeli borders, and...

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