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Foreign Minister Yair Lapid stumbled badly last week – he attacked Jew-hatred  subtly, thoughtfully. Weaving the particular with the universal, the world’s unique obsession against Jews with humans’ tendency to hate others, Lapid first described how the Nazis menaced his father as a 13-year-old Jew. Lapid …

For years, when meeting Zionist activists on campus, I’ve heard their tales of woe. It often feels like Zionists Anonymous – or group therapy. One student describes being bullied or cancelled for being pro-Israel. Suddenly, the dam breaks. Others share their stories – then others. …

It’s easy to mock the Israeli President’s to do list: kiss babies – check; issue holiday greetings — check; host another reception for another ambassador – check. But in a young democracy with a volatile political system, the President’s to do list is more challenging. …

When Jew-hatred peaks, Jews traditionally mobilize – and unify. Yet today’s spike in antisemitism is sowing confusion. Too many American Jews refuse to recognize the Jew-haters within their own partisan camps. As a result, too many liberals blame Donald Trump for this latest Jew-bullying-binge. Even …

96 The Bennett family’s grace trumps its rivals’ gracelessness View this email in your browser The Jerusalem Post 16/06/2021   The Bennett family’s grace trumps its rivals’ gracelessness When Naftali Bennett requested “support for the Unity Government … to restore stability and functionality to the …

Dear Ls… On Shabbat, you announced at your son’s bar mitzvah that you’re making Aliyah, moving to Israel…. Are you crazy? Didn’t you notice the 4,000 rockets Hamas fired at us? Didn’t you learn to run away from rocket-fire not toward it? Moreover:  What kind …

I plead guilty in Woke Court: I am a thought criminal. In the 1980s, Philip Roth championed Eastern European dissidents who circulated their work secretly via Samzidat, from person-to-person. This weekend, I secured Philip Roth’s biography via Samzidat American-style, borrowing it from my brother: the …

There are no silver linings, hidden blessings, or gifts from God in the Mount Meron catastrophe. Forty-five lives have been lost unnecessarily. Hundreds of people, including heroic first responders, have been needlessly injured and traumatized. But as we share stories of the camp friend whose …

“Jumping the shark” has come to mean a long-running franchise revealing inadvertently that it is past its prime. The phrase originated when Fonzie in “Happy Days” jumped over a shark in water skis – and the TV-sitcom went downhill from there, losing its focus, its …

Twenty years ago, as Yasir Arafat turned many of his people from negotiations back toward terror, I wrote an 800-word essay in the Montreal Gazette “I am a Zionist” that changed my life. It was my Herzl moment: I went from being a proud but …