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Jul 22, 2026, 11:46 AM

When a Guy Knows Just What to Say

A few years ago, I was head over heels for Political Guy, a DC man who could talk about foreign policy for hours. He would compliment me, take an interest in my opinions, and call me right after seeing...

Jul 22, 2026, 6:20 AM

The Prime Minister, the Senator—and the Clown

New York is the largest Jewish city in the world. A million Jews—12% of the city—live in New York with another half million in the surrounding metro area. So months ago when communist Muslim mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani plainly...

Ruthie Hollander

Jul 22, 2026, 6:14 AM

Mayor Mamdani: Listen, before it’s too late.

Photo on the right: credit to Wikimedia Commons
Photo on the left: credit to HESPRESS VIA ADL

At a small event run by JFNA a year ago, the current Israeli ambassador to the United States, Rabbi Dr. Yechiel Leiter, said something profound about his role. His job, he explained, was to remove the “stain of Cain”...

Jul 19, 2026, 2:45 PM

Mamdani’s reckless politics of lawfare

MTA New York City Transit President Richard Davey is on-hand at the 21 St-Queensbridge station on the F line on Monday, Apr 1, 2024 as the 63 St corridor repoens after track rehabilitation.

MTA Construction & Development President Jamie Torres-Springer, Assembly Member Zohran Mamdani.

(Marc A. Hermann / MTA)

Zohran Mamdani's suggestion that he would seek the arrest of Benjamin Netanyahu if the Israeli prime minister came to New York for the United Nation's General Assembly in September is far more than an exercise in political theatre. It...

Sagit Alkobi Fishman

Jul 19, 2026, 2:16 AM

Mamdani’s threat to arrest Netanyahu isn’t the real danger

Left: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a cadets' graduation ceremony at the Bahad 1 officers' school in southern Israel, June 25, 2026. (Screenshot/Israel Defense Forces)
Right: New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani delivers a speech to mark the 250th anniversary of the United States at City Hall in New York on Friday July 3, 2026. (Anna Connors/The New York Times via AP, Pool)

A political leader who claims history has already rendered its verdict turns disagreement into heresy – and New York's Jews are feeling the consequences

Jul 16, 2026, 11:07 PM

A Sense of Where You Are

I have wandered all across the globe playing basketball, but as I prepared for the 22nd Maccabiah Games, my family and friends were terrified. Not because I was a fifty-two-year-old playing basketball. They worried about missiles, terrorism, and geopolitical...

Jul 16, 2026, 5:03 AM

They Stamped Every Neighborhood But Ours

There is a particular loneliness in being counted only when someone is counting victims, and forgotten every other day of the year. This summer, as the World Cup came to New York, the City handed out a “Neighborhood Passport,”...

Jul 6, 2026, 3:03 AM

When “Good Enough” Becomes Dangerous

One of the moments I watch for most is when a student starts feeling comfortable in a Krav Maga class. We practice different kinds of escapes and defenses. The student handles the problem a few times, the movement becomes...

Jul 3, 2026, 6:30 PM

Treasure Trove: Jabotinsky’s 1964 Return Home

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

Ze’ev Jabotinsky (1880-1940) was the founder of the Revisionist Zionist movement, the Betar youth movement and the Jewish legion of soldiers who fought for the British in World War I (See In 1940 he visited the United States...

Andy Blumenthal

Jun 28, 2026, 12:55 AM

Don’t Fall for the DSA Branding Machine

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American Jews — and anyone who still believes politics should be judged by truth rather than branding — should pay close attention to what happened in New York. What we are watching is not a normal progressive shift and not...

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