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Oct 30, 2025, 6:21 AM

Trump’s Bribes Are Dangerous For Israel

Photo Credits: Sabine Sterk (AI)

Trump’s Bribes, Netanyahu’s “Crimes”: The Real Witch Hunt For years, the world has been fed a narrative: Benjamin Netanyahu, corrupt leader of Israel, clinging to power through deceit and bribery. Headlines screamed “scandal!”, political rivals cheered, and Israel, one of...

Jun 1, 2025, 7:10 PM

Deep state, shallow state, black state

America, Israel has something in common with you. You might think you are nothing like us; that our population is mostly a bunch of men shuffling around in black coats and fur hats with bewigged women following three steps...

Dec 21, 2024, 3:48 PM

(This image is the personal work of the author)

Last night’s wake up call, courtesy of our friends in Yemen, came at a pretty inconsiderate hour. When my husband and I heard the siren, we realized that the back way out, ironically, is muddy and studded with iron...

Nov 26, 2024, 10:00 PM

The martyrs of Caesarea and real meaning of Israeli victimhood

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu embraces his wife Sara as he appears before supporters of his Likud party in Tel Aviv early on April 10, 2019, as election results are announced. (Thomas Coex/AFP)

In the annals of human suffering, certain events transcend the ordinary bounds of tragedy, forcing us to reevaluate the very concept of victimhood. For decades, we’ve naively assumed that loss, pain, and destruction are measured by lives shattered, families...

Sam Lehman-Wilzig

Oct 11, 2024, 7:29 AM

Biden, Trump & Bibi: The Power of Political Oratory

We live in age of internet memes, video clips, infographics, a flood of (mis)information, et al. And yet, one form of political communication – the oldest of all – still holds remarkable sway: political oratory. The past few months...

Sam Lehman-Wilzig

Aug 30, 2024, 6:29 AM

Tough Questions for “Conservatives” on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Last week I laid out ten tough questions that media interviewers are loathe to ask “Progressives” regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in general and vis-à-vis Gaza specifically. Now it’s time to turn the tables (or spotlight) on the other side...

Elchanan Poupko

Jul 22, 2024, 5:54 AM

Israel’s Heroes Will Protest Netanyahu’s Visit

Just about a year ago, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach shared a video of a group with Israeli flags protesting for Israeli democracy, with the caption “anti-Israel protesters”. Since I was among those protesting on the Upper East Side of Manhattan,...

Elchanan Poupko

Mar 31, 2024, 2:24 PM

Jews Deserve a Functioning Homeland

The magnitude of instability the Jewish people are experiencing around the world right now is one that would have great thinkers like Herzel, Achad Ha’am, Jabotinsky, Max Nordau, and others staying up late at night, seeking a renewed vision...

Oct 19, 2023, 11:55 PM

It was Bibi who in 1995 stood on a balcony overlooking Jerusalem's Zion Square and inflamed the crowd by attacking the government of the day while protesters below held up placards with pictures of the to-be-assassinated Prime Minister Yitzhak...

Mar 3, 2023, 7:40 PM

What Really Happened at the Great Tel Aviv Hair Salon Siege

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu embraces his wife Sara, in a photo he tweeted out late March 2, 2023 after she was extricated from a hair salon surrounded by demonstrators. (Via Twitter)

There were arguably two top news stories in Israel on Wednesday, the national protests and the siege at Sara Netanyahu’s hair salon. Just to clear things up, here’s what really happened with Israel’s widely admired and much beloved First...

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