Orthodox Judaism

November 6, 2024 | Seth J. Frantzman |

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu removes Defense Minister Gallant

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu removed Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on November 5, shaking up Israeli politics in the midst of a multi-front war. Netanyahu’s decision came after months...

November 4, 2024 | Richard Goldberg |

Chicago Plays Down an Antisemitic Hate Crime

The suspect, an illegal immigrant, shouted ‘Allahu Akbar.’ The victim was headed to synagogue.

June 11, 2024 | |

Knesset Advances Contested Conscription Law

Israel’s parliament approved moving ahead on a contested conscription law on June 11. In a vote of 63 lawmakers in favor and 57 opposed, the Knesset plenum approved applying continuity...

March 13, 2024 | |

Palestinian Teen Stabs Two Israelis at West Bank Checkpoint

A Palestinian teen stabbed two Israelis at a checkpoint along a West Bank highway leading to Jerusalem on March 13. Israeli police said in a statement that soldiers from the Israel...

November 30, 2023 | Seth J. Frantzman |

Terror in Jerusalem shows spillover from Gaza threat

The attack on Thursday morning took place at the same bus stop at the entrance to the city as the November 2022 bombing attack.

September 11, 2023 | David May, Ivana Stradner

Israeli and Ukrainian Relations Are Essential; Is Rosh Hashanah Development a Hopeful Sign?

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s spoke with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky last week, in order to come to an agreement on Jewish pilgrims visiting the Ukranian town...

April 13, 2022 | Jonathan Schanzer |

‘Caught Between a Hammer and an Anvil’

Israel’s in a difficult position when it comes to the war in Ukraine

November 24, 2020 | Richard Goldberg |

What Saudi Arabia Is Thinking

There’s talk of the new American administration moving closer to Iran. Could a Saudi step toward peace with Israel protect Riyadh from the troubles that might ensue?

July 10, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal

Violent attacks committed against Jews in Berlin and Zurich

German and Swiss media Sunday reported several violent attacks on Jews in Berlin and Zurich over the weekend. On Saturday, three Germans and six Syrians were detained for allegedly assau...

February 17, 2017 | Reuel Marc Gerecht |

The Face-Off

Donald Trump has promised a foreign policy of muscular retrenchment, in which a better-resourced U.S. military intimidates our enemies without serving as a global cop. More than any pr...

September 4, 2015 | |

Larijani’s Evasive Interview Shows Iran’s Policies Remain Unchanged

Iran’s Speaker of Parliament Ali Larijani was in New York on Wednesday to attend a U.N.-sponsored conference of parliamentary speakers...

October 3, 2014 | Reuel Marc Gerecht

Sandstorm

The great medieval historian Ibn Khaldun centered his understanding of history on asabiyya, which is perhaps best translated as esprit de corps mixed with the will to power. In his maste...

April 9, 2013 | James Kirchick Tablet

Being the Jew in the Box

To have conversations with Germans about Jews, I had to become an exhibition at Berlin’s Jewish Museum

April 9, 2013 | Benjamin Weinthal Foreign Policy

The Jew in a Box

What does it say about Germany today that in order to see some Jews you’ve got to go to a museum?

August 1, 2012 | Benjamin Weinthal |

US State Dept. Reports Growing Global Anti-Semitism

The US State Department’s report on religious freedom described a “global increase” in anti-Semitism and said the “rising tide of anti-Semitism” was among the key tr...

November 29, 2011 | James Kirchick Tablet

Pink Eye

In June 2007, I marched in Jerusalem’s gay pride parade. To do so was a risk. A group of ultra-Orthodox rabbis had issued a hex on t...

October 19, 2011 | Benjamin Weinthal The Jewish Press |

Turning Holocaust Remembrance Into Israel Bashing

The German Holocaust foundation Remembrance, Responsibility, Future - EVZ - is in a state of denial concerning misuse of public funds meant to largely compensate the victims of the Shoah but used...

April 30, 2007 | Joel Mowbray Wall Street Journal

Mad TV

Testifying under oath recently, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice misled Congress in her strong defense of Al-Hurra, the taxpayer financed Arab TV network. It was unwitting, though. She herself...