The Future of Jewish

The Islamist strategy is not to win every battle. It is to remain standing when the negotiations end.

The people who claim to support "Palestine" need Palestinians to keep suffering in perpetuity.

We are not required to preserve every custom exactly as it was practiced before us — but we are required to receive and transmit this inheritance.

You are not living at the end of the Jewish story. You are living in one of its greatest chapters.

When Jews commit violence, it becomes an indictment of Zionism. When Arabs commit violence, it becomes a conversation about context. See the difference?

The problem is not that anti-Zionism criticizes Israel. It is what anti-Zionism ultimately demands.

The greatest danger is not the next coalition, but the ammunition we may hand our enemies along the way.

When people stop asking Jews questions, antisemites supply the answers.

A former Israeli prime minister knew that lasting peace is built one agreement at a time, not through grand regional bargains that demand Israel surrender first.

Facts alone rarely penetrate this structure because facts are processed through the identity they threaten. The more politically useful the belief, the more psychologically defended it becomes.

No amount of aid can guarantee food security if humanitarian organizations are obstructed, supplies are diverted, or aid workers are threatened.

Israel is the only country expected to undo history.

Ideally, Jews should marry Jews. But when they do not, the Jewish story does not have to end.

Exile changed Jewish culture, but it did not change Jewish origins.

Israel disrupts a long-established moral image of the Jew. For many Western observers, this is aesthetically offensive. They prefer the Jew as moral witness, not political actor.

The modern "Palestinian" identity was invented for the explicit purpose to destroy the Jewish state.

Someone needs to say it: The preservation of Palestinian comfort is not morally superior to the preservation of Jewish life.

The rejection of Jewish sovereignty did not begin with the modern State of Israel. It is rooted in a centuries-old struggle over revelation, legitimacy, and who inherits the biblical story.

Jews longed for Jerusalem for 2,000 years. Now we risk forgetting it.

The point was never to enforce the law. It was to show his Jew-hating supporters what a "tough guy" the mayor of New York City thinks he is.

Liberals did not betray Jews by caring about Palestinians. They betrayed Jews by deciding they could not care about both.

The Talmud teaches Jews how to disagree — yet we remembered the arguing and forgot the humility.

Israelis are not becoming less Western. They are becoming less naive.

Thirty-two years after 85 people were murdered at a Jewish community center, Iran and Hezbollah are still exporting terror — and the world is still struggling to confront them.

Orthodox Jewish communities have built their lives around obligation, family, education, and continuity. The rest of us should pay attention.

They described it as “a safe space for difficult conversations.” What they really wanted was an Israeli who would sit quietly and confess.

The most powerful Jewish expressions of love often never use the words “I love you.”

To radical ideologues, Jews and Argentines commit the same unforgivable sin.

Arab leaders say Israel's prime minister blocks peace. What they really mean is stability on their terms.

In their versions of the West Bank, not a single Palestinian makes a choice. They are only shown as victims, there to be pitied and filmed. And no Israeli is shown as a real person.

First they deny our history. Then they build over it.

Jews teach Israel as a historical necessity, a geopolitical argument, and an emergency shelter. We rarely teach it as a place overflowing with things that Jews of all kinds might actually enjoy.

"Aliyah" cannot eliminate antisemitism, but it can give Jews the strength, sovereignty, and agency to confront it.

The lies work by turning Jewish participation into domination, Jewish success into guilt, and antisemitism into resistance.

The “open-air prison” fiction leaves out some crucial facts about an agreement that never came to fruition.

Britain dismissed Jewish fears until antisemitism consumed the Labour Party. American Democrats are beginning the same experiment.

Make it make sense: A people who never sought to convert the world are now accused of trying to conquer it.

The Jewish state is alive and well. The question now is whether we can become the kind of diaspora Jews strong enough to carry it forward.

The Islamic Republic of Iran is deceiving, Europe is sermonizing, America is wavering, and Israel must build the power to stand alone when necessary.

October 7th did not only reveal Hamas's cruelty. It revealed how uncomfortable so much of the world becomes when Jews ask for simple human empathy.

We do not need to agree on everything to act like one people. But we do need to stop mistaking judgment for wisdom.

A century later, the Jewish state has fulfilled the Zionist vision — while overturning many assumptions behind it.

The guns, tunnels and fighters remain. Only the name on the door has changed.

Most Jews teach their children knowledge, education, and the importance of being a contributing member to societies around them. Many Muslims teach their children to worship suffering.

Fifty years ago, Israel was celebrated for refusing to abandon its hostages. Today, even Jewish relief comes with a moral disclaimer.

The question is not whether "progressive Zionism" feels compassionate. It is whether the assumptions of "progressive Zionists" can survive contact with reality — and most often, they do not.

On America's 250th birthday today, it is imperative to remember that the United States was originally a Judeo-Christian country, not just a Christian one.

The IDF's emergency teams have spent decades turning battlefield experience into lifesaving expertise around the world.

Jews still want Judaism, but many of us no longer want the institutions and organizations offering it — and that distinction will determine the Jewish future.

The unedited journal entries I wrote as the attacks were still unfolding — before the dead had been counted, before the hostages were known, and before history found its narrative.

Canada's recognition of "Palestine" came with conditions — that were never enforced. In the Palestinians' war against the Jews, they are never given their own agency. Only Israel is expected to abide.