The Future of Jewish

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.

We thought October 7th would expose Hamas. Instead, it exposed so much of our world.

What began as a foreign policy debate has become an increasingly powerful marker of identity, status, and belonging in America's most Jewish city.

Lebanon is the country that stopped being a country — and Israelis are forced to live with the increasingly adverse effects.

Nowadays, Jewish identity so often triggers lines of questioning that no other identity seems to require.

The historical record tells a far more nuanced story than many are willing to admit.

Jewish sovereignty is no longer a dream. The challenge now is learning how to live as a sovereign people — in Israel and across the diaspora.

Death threats, institutional indifference, and the growing exodus of Jewish doctors from Britain reveal a crisis that the UK's medical establishment refuses to confront.

Zionism isn't about denying anyone else's rights. It's about affirming our own.

Almost everyone has an opinion about Jews. Almost nobody knows why. What is it about the Jews?

This growing network shares a board seat, a donor list, a vocabulary engine, and a single goal: to make opposition to Jewish statehood the defining litmus test of the modern-day Democratic Party.

In 1957, Israel surrendered hard-won gains for promises that dissolved when tested. The emerging order with the Islamic Republic of Iran bears an unsettling resemblance.

Opposing war with Iran is understandable. Treating the Islamic Republic as a pillar of regional stability is not.

As "anti-Zionists" question the legitimacy of the Jewish state, they ignore a far more compelling case study in artificial borders, sectarian division, and national failure.

The American public deserves a true picture of this relationship, not an agenda dressed up as policy analysis to serve someone's political interests.

Gadi Eisenkot is everything Benjamin Netanyahu is not.

Democracy's greatest strength is also its greatest weakness.

The U.S.-Iran deal reveals an uncomfortable truth: The world is far more comfortable with a vulnerable Israel than a victorious one.

After helping the U.S. cripple Iran, Israel is being asked to accept an agreement that could leave it more vulnerable than before.

I no longer want to spend my life negotiating my place in a country that keeps asking Jews to justify theirs.

Many people look at the U.S.–Iran deal and see an Israeli defeat. Jewish history tells a different story: The long game often belongs to those who lose the moment but win the future.

I came from inside the machine that produces hatred of Israel, and I am telling anyone who will listen: The machine is a lie.