Yishai Corey

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Nov 4, 2024, 7:14 AM

Is Trump Losing Interest in Israel?

Statistically, Israelis and pro-Israel American voters prefer Donald Trump, remembering how he moved the embassy to Jerusalem, recognized the Golan, and launched the Abraham Accords. However, there is growing evidence that a second Trump term may not be so favorable...

Jan 15, 2024, 10:38 PM

Saving Lives on the Frontline in Ukraine

The sound of artillery rumbled like thunder and the windows that were not boarded up rattled occasionally from the shockwaves. But in a small medical clinic in the Donbas region of Ukraine, no one seemed to notice as a...

Apr 5, 2022, 8:37 PM

Why Bucha is Not the Smoking Gun of a Genocide

The scenes and stories coming out of the Kyiv suburb of Bucha are horrifying. The Russian troops which occupied this town for weeks are gone, but grime signs of their presence remain; mass graves filled with civilians, some with...

Jan 28, 2022, 12:24 AM

The ‘Maus’ ban: Yet more historical distortion in the American south

Maus, by Art Spiegelman. (Philissa Cramer/JTA, via The Times of Israel)

In a region rife with Civil War revisionist history, it comes as no surprise that the facts of the Holocaust are now up for debate

Apr 15, 2021, 12:15 AM

Remembrance Day in a WWI British cemetery

Yom Ha-Zikaron (Remembrance Day) can leave Olim Chadashim feeling a little disconnected. While the rest of the country mourns, those of us who do not know anyone personally that has fallen in Israel’s wars stand and listen to the siren,...

Mar 18, 2021, 4:33 AM

Jews Who Wore Green? Iconic Irish Jews.

“Is that Hebrew?” My tour guide asked, peering over my shoulder as I scribbled a short message on the Peace Wall. This wall, which had once separated Catholic and Protestant neighborhoods was the last stop on the Black Cab...

Jan 10, 2021, 2:43 AM

The Capitol, Nazis, and “Very Fine People”

As a historian, one thing I hate is seeing the tendency to compare everything to Nazis. It is overdone on social media and too often in public debates. However, some events demand that comparison. I feel the events that took...

Jan 7, 2021, 8:18 PM

Justice, Justice you Shall Pursue…But not by Mob Rule

I didn’t sleep last night. I spent the entire night glued to my laptop, watching shocking scenes play out half a world away. There is something uniquely unsettling about seeing your homeland on the news, while not being there. Something...

Nov 20, 2020, 3:31 PM

Losing a Leader – Reflecting on the Life of Rabbi Sacks z”l

It was only a few weeks ago that I opened my laptop to check in the results of the American election that had dominated the news cycle for most of the week. However, it was a different headline that...

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About Me

A Native of Upstate New York and graduate of Hebrew University with degrees in History and Jewish Studies, Yishai Corey has spent the better part of the last decade exploring the world and pursuing Jewish history wherever it can be found. This quest (not surprisingly) always brings him back to Jerusalem.

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