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Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

May 19, 2026, 2:13 PM

Mamdani Hates Israel. Stop Pretending Otherwise.

New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, right, and his wife Rama Duwaji wave at members of media after a news conference at Gracie Mansion, Monday, Jan. 12, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

American Democratic Jews who consider themselves Zionists must abandon Zohran Mamdani. He advances a clear anti-Israel agenda while using a small circle of extreme-left Jewish activists as political cover. This tactic allows him to claim immunity from accusations of...

May 15, 2026, 10:37 PM

May 14, A Day That Will Live In Infamy

Why This Day Is So Meaningful...Especially For Me Fifty-two years ago today, my father died. He was fifty years old. Seventy-eight years ago today, Israel declared its independence — one of the most consequential moments in modern Jewish history. Somehow, I never...

May 15, 2026, 6:50 PM

Navy Whaleboat: From Port Jefferson and New Bedford to Israel’s Exodus Legacy

From the Palyam to Hadassah Neurim: The Whaleboat Returns to Israel. Quietly, inside the Hadassah Neurim youth village along Israel’s coastal highway, an unusual maritime project is taking shape these days: the first authentic historical whaleboat ever to be built...

May 14, 2026, 6:12 AM

Israel Reborn: The Day History Turned a Page

On May 14, 1948, in a modest hall in Tel Aviv, Jewish Agency Chairman David Ben-Gurion stood before a tense audience and proclaimed the establishment of the State of Israel. In that moment, a dream nurtured for two millennia...

May 8, 2026, 6:26 PM

Treasure Trove: Chaim Weizmann, Part 4 of the Independence Day Series

From the Herzl and Zionism Collection of David Matlow, Toronto (www.herzlcollection.com). Photograph by David Matlow.

This is the fourth part of Treasure Trove's celebration of Israel's 78th Independence Day. On May 14, 1948 David Ben Gurion read Israel’s Declaration of Independence and proclaimed the State into existence. The 37 members of the Moetzet Ha’am (the...

Andy Blumenthal

May 3, 2026, 6:33 PM

The Illusion of Safety Is Fading Fast

For generations, Jews in America have lived with a dangerous illusion: that comfort is the same thing as security. We built lives here, raised families here, educated our children here, and contributed to the success of this country. For...

May 2, 2026, 12:38 AM

Treasure Trove: A New York City Ticker Tape Parade for an Israeli Prime Minister

After its creation on May 14, 1948 the State of Israel was in desperate need of funds in order to build the new country. In February 1950, Prime Minister David Ben Gurion held a meeting at the King David...

May 1, 2026, 6:52 PM

The age of Western insanity: why Israel’s armed forces are now the West’s second

Israel is a tiny country, with a population which is a small fraction of the rest of the West. Yet, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) now have more personnel on active duty than any of Australia, Canada, Italy or...

Arie Simcha Halpern

May 1, 2026, 8:45 AM

Javier Milein in a tour through Israel

A salute. A salute to freedom, a salute to honesty. That's what Javier Milei did last week. Who knows better than the Jewish people about getting vilified? They were accused of being rich and poor, uneducated and overeducated, communist and...

May 1, 2026, 4:42 AM

Israel — Can We Heal Ourselves, or Will the World Ever Let Us? Part I

The convergence of the important Israeli holidays of Spring: Passover, Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day), Yom HaZikaron (Memorial Day for Fallen Soldiers and Victims of Terror), and Yom HaAtzmaut (Israel Independence Day) has just concluded. After my last TOI...

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