Witness A Great Posek at Work! Rabbi Barry Gelman

We cannot allow Jewish students to live in fear of constant attacks because it’s easier than finding ways to have hard conversations and explore resolutions.

Australia was warned in real time. Too many people chose to treat those warnings as exaggeration, or as an inconvenience to the national self-image.

Today, all three major parts of Kurdistan urgently need humane attention and international accountability.

The first two intifadas were confined to Israel and the territories it administers. But the Third Intifada has gone global.

My family learned, the hard way, that when a theocratic regime consolidates power, it does not stop with one group.

The Jew is a mirror that reflects the state of the world – at times its openness, kindness and generosity of spirit, at other times its spasms of ferocious barbarism.

Black January did not save the Soviet Union. It shattered it. Rather than crushing Azerbaijan’s will, the massacre unified it.

Long-simmering antisemitism on the American Right has erupted into plain view.

Why is Iran not on anyone’s radar? Because calling for the end of an Islamic regime is not as satisfying as demanding the annihilation of the world’s one Jewish state.