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Chananya Weissman

Jul 2, 2018, 2:34 PM

My visit to the US Embassy in Jerusalem

A couple of weeks ago I had occasion to visit the new US Embassy in Jerusalem, which was relocated to my neighborhood a few days earlier to be closer to me. Upon reaching the security guards outside the entrance...

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...

Phillip Mark McGough

Jun 14, 2018, 6:00 PM

Praying For Failure: Trump and the Confounding of the Critics

Niall Ferguson observed back in the summer of 2016 that the worst nightmare for the liberal mindset wasn't a Trump Presidency- it was a successful Trump Presidency. Well, here we are. Confronted by a booming economy at home and...

Jun 5, 2018, 8:00 PM

Don’t America’s liberal rabbis have better things to do than snipe at Israel?

Why smearing Democrats as “Anti-Israel” wont sway voters The above headline appears in the February 4th issue of Forward, although I will not be reading the pearls of wisdom written by its author Aaron Davis a former Obama flunky now re-tooled...

Jun 1, 2018, 11:13 PM

It’s Past Time to Bury the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process

At the opening of the new U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem in May, Ivanka Trump snapped a selfie with the jubilant Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. The crowd around them celebrated the occasion. By sharp contrast, less than fifty miles...

Raymond M. Berger

May 29, 2018, 11:23 AM

Hamas Meets Madison Avenue

We’ll do a TV tie-in, press interviews, some product placement and a European tour. Hey, you guys that run the Gaza Strip. I know you are into doing your own thing….but I gotta tell you, you people are a public...

Sivan Rahav Meir

May 28, 2018, 9:33 AM

Seeing the light unto the nations

Guatemala President Jimmy Morales speaks during the official opening ceremony of the Guatemala embassy in Jerusalem on May 16, 2018. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool)

Israeli media hearkens to the world's criticism of Israel; it should do the same for the world's praise

May 27, 2018, 9:47 PM

The Ayatollah vs The Donald

Let us put aside the looming Armageddon for the moment among North Korea, China, America and its allies in the South Pacific. Perhaps there will be a meeting in Singapore on June 12 and perhaps it will occur at some...

May 25, 2018, 4:12 PM

Accepting the reality of Jerusalem — and the reality of the threat of Iran

Garabedian: Your new editor, he’s a Jew, right? Mike: That’s right, yeah. Garabedian: Well, see...He comes in and suddenly everybody is interested in the Church. You know why? Mike: No. Garabedian: Because it takes the outsider. Like me, I’m Armenian. How many Armenians...

May 24, 2018, 7:50 PM

Unasked Questions about the “March of Return”

Here we go again, another Israeli-Palestinian conflict, this time with Gaza. The media flippantly tosses out its usual shop worn phrases. The Palestinians, whether knife-wielding West Bank residents or rioting Gazans sending explosive devices across Israel’s border, are involved...

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