My wife, Jody, and I started planning the trip in January, but when the war with Iran broke out, we didn't feel comfortable finishing our booking not knowing if we'd still be at war.
The belief that economic incentives can moderate jihadist regimes collapsed on October 7, 2023; Iran may prove the next test.
Dreams are perfect. Reality is not. Reality demands sacrifice, perseverance, and the courage to confront uncertainty.
Protecting brit milah means separating the covenant from a risky practice that Jewish law does not require.
The position of Israel's New York Consul General requires intellectual seriousness, moral clarity, and the courage to challenge failing assumptions. Caroline Glick can provide that.
That is the point. Israel didn’t try. It rarely does. And that, right now, is the story of Israeli public diplomacy in a single sentence: Israel is not even in the game. The question is why.
Netanyahu’s rise marked the beginning of a new political age in Israel, one defined by sound bites, self-promotion, and lasting consequences.
There was a certain irony to the violent response of the police in Bilbao to the pro-Palestinian provocateurs at the airport. After all, Spain was one of the countries that protested Ben-Gvir's video
“We do not have the privilege of refusing to work together, even when we disagree. If we learn how to do that, we will do good for all of Israeli society," a Kibbutz leader told me.
In placing Israeli institutions alongside Hamas, the UN has practically collapsed the distinction between isolated criminal allegations and systematic sexual violence deployed as a weapon of war.
A country that is inherently immoral because of the inequality of its citizens based on national-religious identity and rejects the aspiration of seeking maximal justice cannot survive forever.
