The fifth day of the month of Iyar is your Independence Day. Yes — yours! And by this, I mean you, Los Angeles Jews;
In Israel, the two weeks after Pesach are always emotionally packed. Holocaust Memorial Day comes shortly after the long holiday.
It was as easy to figure out Israel’s two main objectives in Gaza last week as it was hard to meet these objectives.
Why do we sit at a Passover seder? Why do we read the haggadah? Toward the end of my book, “The Jews: 7 Frequently Asked Questions”...
Last June, Holocaust denial posters were found at a strip mall and near a Jewish day school in Sunnyvale, Calif.
One of the common myths about Israel’s last election (2015) is that the polls were way off. The people were expecting a win for...
Shmuel Rosner died last Friday night. He was almost a hundred years old. My phone buzzed with the news on Saturday night, when I was in...
Eliezer Tauber is an Israeli academic who specializes in the modern history of the Middle East. In the past decade, he dedicated a lot...
Israeli columnist Ben Caspit has not always had good luck with timing. In 2013, he penned a book about former Prime Minister Ehud...
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was always obsessed with the media. He was always at war with the media.
Israel demonstrated how serious it is about preventing the establishment of an Iranian stronghold in Syria
Recep Tayyip Erdogan might be a strong leader of Turkey, but consistency is not his strongest suit. He embraces Hamas but calls Kurdish...
There is an irony inherent to a scholarly attempt to convince you that we live in an era of “Truth Decay.” The phrase is the catchy title...
It is sometimes quite amazing to see how the Holocaust, 70 years later, is still a daily subject of discussion in Israel.
