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Once upon a time they warned us about "the uneducated." Now we should be warning them about the overly educated — and how they are indoctrinating millions of clueless, overly impressionistic students…
Also in this episode of “Random Thought Thursday” —
As an Israeli peace activist, I say: If you from abroad want to demand something, demand a resolution to the conflict, not the annihilation of one side.
Not for nothing did author Robert Wistrich call antisemitism the world’s oldest hatred.
Rafah, in southern Gaza, is an otherwise inconspicuous city that has been featured in headline news for months now. Here is why it is so critical to Israel, Hamas, Egypt, and Western countries like t…
To those who sacrifice their own families in order to destroy ours, I say: Fear us, the men who value peace, but are dragged to war.
I am not a violent person, but I am also not self-defeating. If I am asked to defend myself, my people, and my homeland, or allow others to walk all over us in the name of Islam, I choose the former.
Today, many Jews are beginning to understand that, because of the fault lines in democracy, the sociopolitical landscape can suddenly change.
“What the hell is going on?” is a weekly series in which we bring you the most bizarre, outlandish, and surreal developments from around the Jewish world during the past week.
These thoughts make you barricade your sliding doors, turn driving through a tunnel into fear for the hostages, and dare you to make summer plans.
If only there was an institution where you could borrow books for free, or some futuristic handheld device with the sum total of human knowledge at your fingertips.
If anyone genuinely wants peace with Israel and the Jewish People, then let them have it. To everyone else: Beware of the “Free Israel” movement.
You are being manipulated and, as a result, you are consigning Palestinians to an eternal hell on Earth.
Yes, I know, everyone in the fight against antisemitism and "anti-Zionism" has been acting with the best of intentions, but let’s stop being so soft — and let’s start confronting unfortunate truths.
The children in Gaza have parents, who have agency. They choose to educate their kids to hate and kill Jews. Naturally, as a Jew, I do not have any empathy for that — or the consequences that follow.
Western leaders are obsessed with a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. They sound like people who have never heard the arguments against it.
Columbia University in New York City is offering us a real-time snapshot of where the West is heading — and heading fast.
Diaspora Jewry’s response to antisemitism has predominantly been the Holocaust — as if showing Jew haters what other Jew haters succeeded in doing will mitigate antisemitism.
“This Passover Eve is one of the most fateful in the history of the State of Israel.”
For one thing, the Passover celebration is the first annual holiday to commemorate a human social achievement rather than a natural occurrence.