By Howard Zern -  For a number of years, I, like many, perceived the United Nations as a body of states deliberating on and in some cases enforcing laws, rules… Read more »

By Rabbi Avi Shafran -  The first notice, shortly before Rosh Hashana, came from “Tehilla.” The subject box of the e-mail read: “Baruch Dayan HaEmet/URGENT, YOSEF PASSED AWAY!” and the… Read more »

By Elliot Jager – Last spring renowned thinker and writer Daniel Gordis wrote a piece about young rabbis and their changing feelings towards Israel that stirred up quite a bit… Read more »

By Shoshana Bryen -  The Government of Israel redeemed IDF Sgt. Gilad Shalit from five years of Hamas captivity the week of Simchat Torah, when Jews read “be strong and… Read more »

Like Jews the world over, this week pro-Israel opinion writers had their eyes fixed – and their pens poised – on the release of captured IDF soldier Gilad Shalit. Here… Read more »

By David Suissa -  You can say a lot about Israel, but not that it’s a normal country. Any way you look at it — its biblical roots and miraculous… Read more »

This month marks the 30th anniversary of an emotionally fraught and bitterly waged political confrontation between the Reagan administration and the organized Jewish community that culminated in the U.S. Senate… Read more »

Since the 1940s, the consensus opinion about Israel’s population growth, which has relied on projections by Israel’s demographic establishment, has been consistently wrong. As a result, the conventional wisdom that… Read more »

By Ricki Hollander ~  Following the feverish and lopsided coverage of the Palestinian bid for UN membership, the New York Times is shifting back to its general lopsided coverage of… Read more »