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Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Shelley Cohen in a screenshot from the trailer for 'You People'

Linda Lovitch

Thanks for the crrringe, Jonah Hill

‘You People’ depicts Jews as obtuse and apologetic for enjoying white privilege. Is that the only kind of Jew acceptable in the US today?

Muslim Palestinian women cross the Qalandiya checkpoint, outside of the West bank city of Ramallah, on April 15, 2022. (Flash90)

Bishara A. Bahbah

What to expect when the Palestinian Authority collapses

All hell could break loose, leaving the IDF to contend alone without the benefit of PA cooperation – and that’s just for starters

8th-grade textbook teaching reading comprehension through a violent story promoting suicide bombings. From IMPACT-se report, 'The 2020-21 Palestinian School Curriculum, Grades 1-12,' May 2021

Marcus Sheff

What Muhammad Aliwat learned in school

Palestinian curricula continue to glorify religious martyrdom and spread hatred even as educational reform is underway elsewhere in the Arab world

Palestinians celebrate a Jerusalem terror attack that killed seven Israelis near a synagogue, in Gaza City, January 27, 2023. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)

Joseph Braude

In Gaza, shouts of joy drown out whispers of sorrow and frustration

With their identities concealed in our groundbreaking animated series, Palestinians in the Strip decried what they called ‘the Hamas occupation’

Left: Britain's Prime Minister Liz Truss attends a press conference in the Downing Street Briefing Room in central London, October 14, 2022, following the sacking of the finance minister in response to a budget that sparked markets chaos. (Daniel Leal/Pool Photo via AP)
Right: Benjamin Netanyahu gives a statement after President Isaac Herzog tasks him with forming a new government, at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, on November 13, 2022. (Menahem Kahana / AFP)

Netanyahu: Truss-ed up?

The Conservative UK politician was prime minister for 50 days until the markets purged her. How long will Israel’s PM last?

Security forces and rescue forces at the scene of a deadly terror shooting in Jerusalem’s Neve Yaakov neighborhood, January 27, 2023. (Olivier Fitoussi / Flash90)

Amir Avivi

Israel needs a national guard right now

It will take more than intel and special forces to defeat the growing terrorism of lone-wolf attacks

A Chinese tourist waves an Israeli and Chinese flags during a celebration for the Chinese lunar new year in Jerusalem, February 3, 2011. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

David P. Goldman

Israel needs to chart its own course with respect to China

The Jewish state can’t afford to sacrifice its technological edge to accommodate a poorly conceived and ill-executed American policy

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Feb 1, 2023, 10:21 AM

Leading minds in Israel offer the gift of hope

Over the past week I was fortunate to be in Paris, listening to some of the stars of global academia giving their insight into the “New World Order”. Anyone that follows the news knows that there was much to talk...

Feb 1, 2023, 9:06 AM

Bamba, Coke, Unity

A Coke bottle and Bamba bag commemorate a fallen soldier, and call for unity amongst sectors Family and friends seek appropriate commemorations for their deceased loved one. But distributing Bamba and Coca Cola to honor a fallen soldier might...

Feb 1, 2023, 7:09 AM

Redemption of First Born Donkey

There is an unusual ceremony mentioned in the Torah, known as פדיון פטר חמור. It refers to the redemption of a first born male donkey. If someone owned a female donkey and its first offspring was a male, this first...

Kenny Schiowitz

Feb 1, 2023, 7:06 AM

The Survivor Nation

This past week, our family suffered the passing of our Bobby, Mrs. Blanche Steinmetz, Batsheva Beila bas Moshe a”h. Bobby was a survivor of Auschwitz and was laid to rest this past Friday, Jan. 27, on International Holocaust Remembrance...

Allen S. Maller

Feb 1, 2023, 1:25 AM

The Kaab’a And The Temple Mount Are Linked By Holiness

The United Nations General Assembly on October 20, 2010 proclaimed the first week of February of each year as an Interfaith Harmony Week for all religions, faiths and beliefs; recognizing ”the imperative need for dialogue among faiths and religions in...

Michael Carasik

Feb 1, 2023, 1:25 AM

Beshalach: Manna from Heaven

This week, before we begin, a Torah Puzzler: What connects this week’s reading with Parashat Bereshit, at the very beginning of the Torah? The answer, or at least my answer, will be at the end of the column. What I...

Moshe-Mordechai van Zuiden

Feb 1, 2023, 1:25 AM

To begin drinking alcohol or smoking weed is not cool or smart

Intentionally, I exclude from this pep talk those already addicted "My parents always warned me to look both ways before crossing a street. But now, I'm big and can do whatever I want. And I only look when I...

Sheldon Kirshner

Feb 1, 2023, 1:25 AM

Blinken’s Trip Lays Bare Differences With Israel

Their stiff body language was unmistakably indicative of their sharp policy differences over the combustible, still unresolved Palestinian issue. As U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken extolled the virtues of a two-state solution during his first trip to Israel following...

Feb 1, 2023, 1:24 AM

Thoughts on the Biblical Portion Beshalach

The weekly biblical portion Beshalach, meaning When Pharaoh “sent out” the Israelites from their centuries of enslavement, tells how the exodus began, Pharaoh pursued the Israelites, the Israelites’ panic, God’s assurance of safety, the splitting of the sea, the...

Feb 1, 2023, 1:24 AM

”My handiwork is drowning” — Israel or Egypt?

Evidently, both the Song of the Sea -- the "sea" being most likely a mere sea of reed, a narrow passage between the big bitter lake and the small bitter lake in the eastern delta of the Nile river...

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