Jews

Academic Israel vs Israel education

Something essential remains untouched: the student leaves the classroom informed but unmoved, equipped with arguments but lacking the inner fire that turns knowledge into commitment.

View of the Judean desert, in the West Bank, February 6, 2026.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a Christian Conference in Jerusalem, on April 27, 2025

After Netanyahu, will the West finally understand while Israel exists? - opinion

Ari Teman

No Jew’s freedom should come with a price tag - opinion

 The Mediterranean Sea.

I left Germany looking for free speech and found it in a room full of Israelis, Arabs, and Iranians


Indian delegation says India, Israel ‘civilizational partners,’ ties only to get stronger

“India understands terrorism. Israel understands terrorism,” Nikhil Chandwani said. “That is perhaps why Modi and Netanyahu came together and signed a lot of pacts."

The Israel-India Friendship Club delegation visits the Knesset in Jerusalem. May, 2026.

Belgium's ban on ritual circumcision is the same as making Jews second-class citizens - editorial

If Jews are being harassed in the street, synagogues are being attacked, and Israel is regularly delegitimized, then why do Jews want to live there?

A Belgian national flag flies over the Royal Palace

Jerusalem’s real estate boom heads to New York for a major expo led by Mayor Moshe Lion

The stunning new Rovah neighborhood at the entrance to the city.

Founding fathers and mothers: The uniqueness of the Jewish people - opinion

The Torah does not begin with the story of Moshe Rabbeinu; it begins instead with Bereishit – with creation.

An Argentine oleh (new immigrant to Israel) who made aliyah 20 years ago celebrated his Bar Mitzvah in Eilat after a long period of conversion.

'Jews are Magic': Museum exhibit explores Jewish fascination with occultism

Jews Are Magic,” opening this month at YIVO’s Manhattan headquarters, explores the Jewish fascination with mysticism, fortune telling, amulets, psychics, and occult practices.

YIVO'S EDDY Portnoy, who curated the exhibit "Jews Are Magic," with a reproduction of a High Holiday card featuring a Jewish palm reader, Warsaw c. 1910.

Israel must fight back against antisemitic bullying disguised as journalism - opinion

Biased reporting on Israel is shaping a dangerous alternative reality with worldwide consequences for Jews.

 Headquarters of the New York Times in Manhattan, which has thus far only been the site of anti-Israel demonstrations.  Where is the New York Jewish community?

Politicians must prioritize 'hasbara' as Israel's global image crisis deepens - opinion

Rising global antisemitism and falling US support push Israel’s image crisis into the election spotlight.

Writer Nicholas Kristof, blood libel purveyor, receives an honorary doctorate in Letters during Brown University commencement exercises, in Rhode Island, 2011.

Trump’s Evangelical alliance alarms defenders of religious freedom - opinion

In America, the assault on basic democratic principles continues, with Christian nationalism increasingly in the forefront.

US President Donald Trump delivers remarks at Basler Flight Service in Oshkosh, Wisconsin

Hundreds of Jewish leaders call on Israeli ambassador to apologize for attack on J Street

J Street is the leading liberal pro-Israel lobby and has increasingly staked out positions that have departed from other mainstream pro-Israel groups.

Israel's Ambassador to the US, Yechiel Leiter, listens during a meeting with US President Donald Trump, Lebanon's Ambassador to the US, Nada Hamadeh Moawad, and Leiter, at the White House in Washington, DC on April 23, 2026.

Europe, Israel should launch commission with Trump’s help - opinion

President Trump ended eight conflicts, and the EU should ask him to lead a Truth and Reconciliation Commission that would halt the over 2,000-year-old European-Israeli conflict.

The Simon of Trent blood libel: Illustration in Hartmann Schedel’s Weltchronik, 1493