The Future of Jewish

As the late, great Rabbi Jonathan Sacks said, a nation is held together by a covenant: a shared story, identity, and responsibility. Israel understands this; much of today's West does not.

The truth is France, Canada, and the UK are so morally confused that Israel pays attention only as a political formality.

If you're going to shout slogans, at least know what you're talking about. Because peddling lies helps no one, least of all the people you claim to support.

This isn't about Gaza. It never was.

Shavuot, which begins Sunday evening and continues throughout Monday, is the most important Jewish holiday that many Jews never truly celebrate.

"Think of the children" is the Palestinians' favorite propaganda strategy.

Legendary writer John Steinbeck walked Israel's soil. What he saw stunned him. For better and for worse, very little has changed.

“Hasbara” has become a religion, a ritual we perform to prove to the world that we are “the good Jews.” But “good Jews” are not spared of murder. So stop explaining, stop apologising, stop pleading.

Apparently Jews control everything (even that random cloud that looks like the Israeli flag). Here's our user manual.

After a killer's political delusions of "righteous violence" drove him to murder random Jews on the streets of America, it is clear that the disease of terrorism has metastasized from Right to Left.

The only country in the Middle East with free press gets vilified for using it.

A hatred so irrational, so obsessive, and so resistant to facts and history should no longer be treated as mere prejudice. It should be diagnosed.

The Holocaust made Jews sad. October 7th and its aftermath made us angry. Two-thousand years of suppressed Jewish rage ends now.

The "Free Palestine" chant doesn't have to make sense. It only needs to unite all against the symbol of "evil" — the one they declared the barrier to a more "just" world: the Jew.

If your commitment to justice is consistent and honest, then you already know that supporting Israel isn't extreme. Pretending it's controversial is.

“Never again!” should stand as a warning to all Jews, not as a source of comfort.

Today's war dresses itself in "progressive" language, legal briefs, and diplomatic forums — but which remains, at its core, a war against the Jews.

Jewish identity cannot be contingent on outside approval. It must be rooted in self-respect, strength, and knowing that our values are only meaningful when paired with the power to protect them.

Through all this chaos, death, and shock, something keeps coming up for me: the strength and moral character of the Israelis.

Powerful politicians across the West are "fighting" antisemitism with one hand, while feeding it with the other. Sadly, they don't seem to understand the link, and it is now costing lives.

You don't seem to understand what kind of people we are.

For too many U.S. politicians, activists, and everyday citizens, antisemitism is only condemned when it is perfectly convenient. But Jews are not a political football; we are people.

Israel is not the side that made child death a war strategy. We are the ones trying to stop it, while the world ties our hands and lectures us on the perversion of “morality.”

The fantasy of an Israeli-Palestinian peace process is a comforting lie we told ourselves. We believed in a future they never wanted.

Israeli Jews ask for forgiveness. Diaspora Jews ask for permission. In our post-October 7th world increasingly hostile to Jewish identity, both are necessary.

The post-World War II European war on nationalism has made it a safe space for antisemitism.

According to Jewish law, yeshiva students should not be exempted en masse from military service.

If Israel wants to be known not just for the tiring Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but for its boundless creativity, it might do well to borrow a page or two from Thailand's cookbook.

When Jews look into the eyes of their haters, they may feel weak, but antisemites are really acknowledging Jewish greatness.

"Let someone else praise you, and not your own mouth; an outsider, and not your own lips." — Proverbs 27:2

After spending decades of time and billions of dollars, October 7th showed us how much this strategy was an utter disaster.

With or without the United States as a key partner, Israel will be just fine.

It has massive gas reserves and some of the cheapest electricity prices in the world. The Iranian regime's "civilian" nuclear program is as much of a front as a mafia's chain of pizza parlors.

A familiar pattern has re-emerged: The media revolts, the world unravels, and the Jews absorb the blow.

The phenomenon of “lone soldiers” predates the modern State of Israel. Today, the country is home to an estimated 7,000 of them.

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict came between us — but it was never the whole story.

Is anything we experience today unprecedented? Should we be surprised by the obvious rise in antisemitism? Is that really new?

While Israeli analysts debate whether there's a rift with the United States, the real story is more complex. There's no rupture, but there is recalibration.

The aftermath of this unprecedented massacre was an important reminder that Judaism isn't just a religion; it's a revolution of the spirit.

Welcome to the year 2025, where spiritual leaders help fund terrorists and European bureaucrats hallucinate Israeli Club Meds in the rubble of Hamas bunkers.

Progressive Jews often insist on assessing Judaism through the lens of progressivism, but the reverse could save progressivism from itself.

Prior to the founding of the State of Israel in 1948, there was British Guiana: a Jewish homeland in South America that never happened.

The actual "occupation" is of facts, morals, and logic.

When we bother to notice Jews on the Right as well as the Left, throughout history and across the globe, then antisemitic grand theories fall apart.

Various datasets explain why so many young people despise Jews — and what it says about all of us.

Zionism without Judaism is empty, while Judaism without Zionism is crippled.

I've long wrestled with my doubt in God. But especially after October 7th, I've come to believe that, even if I'm unsure about Him, I completely believe in His people.

When even the great institutions of the UK are more likely to be standing against British Jews than standing alongside them, is it just time for me to pack up and leave?

“Iran is at its most vulnerable that it's been in 45 years.”

“Judaism is a living protest against the herd instinct. Ours is the dissenting voice in the conversation of humankind.”

The theme that Jews are causing antisemitism by standing up against it continues.