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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 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...

Apr 23, 2026, 4:05 AM

A timeless pair

Yom HaZikaron and Yom HaAtzmaut: a pairing of days and meaning where one could not exist without the other. There may not be a more perfect summation on the tangible calendar for the intangible Jewish experience. It is a yin...

Apr 20, 2026, 7:07 PM

This Memorial Day, let’s remember Israel’s 1948 foreign volunteers

The graves of three Machal foriegn volunteers at the military cemetery in Rehovot.
(Photo credit: Courtesy of Aron Heller)

Unlike Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day, which is focused squarely on our painful past, the country’s annual Memorial Day for fallen soldiers and victims of terror a week later tends to be a far more visceral experience – with far newer...

Stephen M. Flatow

Feb 22, 2026, 11:38 AM

The ‘Silver Platter’ is still being shaped

As the newly formed United Nations debated the future of the British Mandate of Palestine, Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann warned that a state would not be handed to the Jewish people on a “silver platter.” Poet Natan Alterman responded...

Feb 20, 2026, 8:18 PM

Treasure Trove: King David, David’s Sling, Davidka and David’s Successor

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

We learned the story of David and Goliath when we were kids. It took place at a time of conflict between the Israelites and the Philistines. The Philistines had a giant named Goliath who taunted the Israelites to a one...

Feb 19, 2026, 10:15 PM

The UN’s Great Betrayal of Israel

United Nations General Assembly hall in New York City. Patrick Gruban, cropped and downsampled by Pine - originally posted to Flickr as UN General Assembly
Permission details: This image, which was originally posted to Flickr, was uploaded to Commons using Flickr upload bot on September 17, 2008, 21:46 by Avala. On that date, it was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the license indicated.

In the ashes of the Second World War, as the scale of human cruelty came fully into view, the world vowed that such devastation would never again be permitted to unfold unchecked. Cities lay in ruins. Tens of millions...

Feb 9, 2026, 1:31 PM

Nakba: A Catastrophic End to a ‘Judenrein’ Dream

Haj Amin al-Husseini meeting Adolf Hitler in Berlin, 1941. Bundesarchiv, Bild 146-1987-004-09A (via Wikimedia Commons)

In Arabic, Nakba simply means catastrophe. The term entered political usage after the 1948 war to describe the shock and trauma of its outcome. At the time, it referred to the catastrophic failure of a war launched to eliminate...

Feb 5, 2026, 6:49 AM

Blame, Reality and the Middle East Narrative

photo Credits: Sabine Sterk(AI)

Blame, Reality and the Middle East Narrative: In today’s Middle Eastern conflict, Israel and Jews are routinely blamed for violence and war. Pro Palestinian activists often claim that Islam is a religion of peace and that Muslims are primarily victims...

Jan 27, 2026, 10:23 AM

The Holocaust wasn’t the only Jewish World War II experience

Mickey Heller (far left) and other Jewish airman in from of a bomber plane during World War II (Courtesy of the Heller family).

For the 1.5 million Jewish soldiers who fought in World War II victimhood was not the only story

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