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May 20, 2025, 5:34 PM

Jerusalem: City of Peace or of Provocation Protest? The Flag March is Coming

Pennant from 1970 celebrating Israel's 22nd Independence Day. From the Herzl and Zionism Collection of David Matlow, Toronto (www.herzlcollection.com). Photograph by David Matlow.

Jerusalem was united on June 7, 1967 during the Six Day War. From 1948 until that day, Jerusalem was a divided city with the Old City and other eastern portions under Jordanian control. During this time, half of the Old...

Andy Blumenthal

May 4, 2025, 6:52 AM

Neither Peacenik nor Kahanist

A popular misconception is that you are either a foolhardy peacenik who doesn't know how to defend the country or you are an extremist nationalist who promotes violence. The reality is, as King Solomon said, to everything there is...

May 1, 2025, 9:53 AM

Aesthetics of Collapse: Kahanists and Meshichistin

Miami Beach. 8 p.m. I’m sitting under the stage lights at a JCC, already weary, realizing I’d been slotted into a lineup built for zingers—shallow talking points delivered in ninety-second bursts, dressed up as discourse. I’m mentally triaging my...

Mar 26, 2025, 1:27 PM

Anti-Islamism doesn’t equal Islamophobia

Anti-Islamism isn't Islamophobia. And let's not equate either with antisemitism! Just as we were thinking mischievous word-manipulation couldn’t get any worse, the ABC served us up a whopper last week. The news item, which I heard on Australia's national news station...

Joseph C. Kaplan

Mar 20, 2025, 11:03 PM

Freedom of Speech and Assembly – Part II

Towards the end of my column two weeks ago about freedom of speech and assembly, I briefly mentioned the proposed Teaneck ordinance regulating protests, and noted that “I may have more to say as the process unfolds.” Elliot Berman’s...

Mar 16, 2025, 10:49 PM

Donald Trump: A True Ally to Israel and the Jews

POTUS visit the Western Wall, accompanied by the Western Wall's rabbi, Shmuel Rabinovitz and Mordechai "Solly" Eliav, Director General of the Western Wall Heritage Foundation. Jerusalem, May 22, 2017

Photo credit: Matty Stern/U.S. Embassy Tel Aviv

Under Donald Trump's presidency, he became one of the most pro-Israel American presidents in decades. The presidency took bold steps to promote US-Israel relations, strengthen Jewish communities, and reshape Middle Eastern diplomacy. From pronouncing Jerusalem as Israel's capital to...

Joseph C. Kaplan

Mar 7, 2025, 12:21 AM

Freedom of Speech and the Right of the People Peaceably to Assemble

Several decades ago, shortly after my family moved to Teaneck, Meir Kahane, the founder and leader of the Jewish Defense League in the United States and the founder and leader of the ultra-nationalist Kach party in Israel, came to...

Noah E Abramowitz

Mar 6, 2025, 10:51 AM

Parashat Zakhor and the transfer temptation

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You can read this passage to support Meir Kahane's expulsion plan, but that's simply not the Jewish way

Mar 5, 2025, 10:52 PM

The Rabbi who must not be named- Rabbi Meir Kahane

It seems that for extreme liberal progressives, Rabbi Meir Kahane has become the “Rabbi who must not be named." When Lizzy Savetsky, a pro-Israel social media influencer, shared a video of Meir Kahane discussing the realities of engaging with...

Mar 3, 2025, 10:51 PM

Well, I kept my promise to my son. I raised my clenched fist and yelled out my bedroom window, “Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner.” Why? Blake's movie, "The Totally Mind-Blowing Show" won the best TV pilot award at the Thilsri International Film...

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