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Feb 19, 2019, 8:26 AM

Did BDS Pass at NYU?

You may have heard about the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) student government resolution at NYU this past December. As a current NYU student who was present at the student government meeting about BDS, I want you to...

Feb 11, 2019, 7:44 PM

How BDS Comes to a Level Minded University

Last October I took a trip to my old alma mater, California State University Long Beach. Like the state itself, Cal State Long Beach embodies the stereotypical relaxed and laid back atmosphere that Southern Californians are so proud of...

Feb 7, 2019, 6:30 PM

The Value of Presence

Growing up in Boca Raton, Fla., I received a public-school education that encompassed a very narrow understanding of what it meant to be Jewish. My Judaism was comprised of Friday night family dinners, collecting treats from the “candy man”...

Jan 9, 2019, 6:02 AM

Wearing Jewface: The Far-Left’s New Tactic

I contributed much of the research for the Tablet article that exposed Julia Salazar as an imposter, and by imposter I mean pretending to be Jewish, pretending to be an immigrant, and pretending to have grown up poor. My...

Jan 5, 2019, 8:42 PM

When respect meets Israel

When you respect your friend, you add respect to yourself! This is the first sentence that I saw on my Google search, when I wrote the word "respect" (in Hebrew – "כבוד"). It seems Google's algorithm knew what I was...

Dec 17, 2018, 12:59 PM

How Historians Will See Canary Mission Years From Now

On a recent Thursday, at about 8 am, on a desk illuminated by light from a nearby window, a paper cup of steaming coffee laden with cream and sugar was nudged near an open laptop, thus beginning a ten-to-twelve-hour...

Aryeh Eisenberg

Dec 16, 2018, 9:47 AM

Fighting BDS with Education

The past week has been especially difficult for Jews around the world. Between the Ofra shootings and the murdered IDF soldiers, Jewish people around the world felt the pain and loss regardless of their physical locations. In today's world,...

Andy Blumenthal

Dec 15, 2018, 9:06 AM

Israel Rebranded

It was a painful week in Israel with multiple terror attacks in Yehudah and Shomron, including 2 deadly, drive-by shootings. The acts of terrorism are not only a tragic and horrible loss of life and suffering for the victims...

Moshe-Mordechai van Zuiden

Dec 14, 2018, 1:00 PM

Why the most famous rabbi in America and a possible next US president split up

Cory Booker and Shmuley Boteach at happier times. (Courtesy shmuley.com, via The TImes of Israel)

Ever since junior United States Senator from New Jersey Cory Anthony Booker ended his Oxford bromance with Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, the latter is been left hurting and confused. Was Cory an anti-Semite after all, you hear him think at...

Dec 11, 2018, 11:58 PM

What is the State of the Zionist Ideas?

What is the State of the Zionist Ideas? With Israel turning 70 years old and the Middle East as unstable as ever more and more discussion is happening around the topic of Zionism, both in Israel and in the diaspora. To...

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