2+ day, 10+ hour ago   (479+ words) The declaration tells our story at the singular turning point when the Jewish people returned to history as a people. It is a capsule of distilled Israeli DNA, implanted in our national bloodstream by the founding generation as a gift…...

3+ day, 14+ hour ago   (961+ words) Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is not Spain. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is not Israel. This should be obvious. Increasingly, however, the distinction is disappearing from the language of Israel’s relations with Europe. That matters because disagreements between governments…...

4+ day, 10+ hour ago   (837+ words) At a time when Israel’s relations with parts of Europe are under increasing political strain, Israeli and European diplomats, researchers and innovators gathered Tuesday at the President’s Residence in Jerusalem to celebrate a very different kind of relationship—one built…...

4+ day, 21+ hour ago   (525+ words) The tension in the Middle East between Muslims who are “accommodationists,” who want peace with Israel, and fundamentalists is not sufficiently understood, according to Yechiel Leiter, Israeli ambassador in Washington. “The Reformation in Christianity took place 1,500 years after Jesus. We’re…...

5+ day, 14+ hour ago   (662+ words) Antisemitism is rising, but much of today’s scourge does not present itself in the crude language of racial inferiority that we associate with an earlier age. We should recognize these ideas for what they are. They are ancient antisemitic themes…...

5+ day, 17+ hour ago   (1485+ words) A new book, which comes 25 years after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks in New York City, addresses the rabbinic laws about the status of wives, whose husbands were killed in the World Trade Center. An agunah is a woman who cannot…...

6+ day, 47+ min ago   (560+ words) Support for Zionism is an American patriotic duty. It should be the unwavering policy of all political parties that wish to advance the interests of the United States. Not for historic, sentimental or religious reasons, but because, whether you like…...

6+ day, 5+ hour ago   (293+ words) Amid concern in mainstream political circles in Germany regarding Sunday’s electoral gains by the right-wing Alternative for Germany party (AfD), Israel’s ambassador in Berlin warned that left-wing extremism and antisemitism must not be ignored. “Germany looks to the right. It…...

6+ day, 7+ hour ago   (389+ words) The head of Israel’s Yashar Party, Lt. Gen. (res.) Gadi Eisenkot, on Sunday finalized a political merger with lawmaker Chili Tropper’s Zionist Home Party, who had earlier in the day dissolved his party’s alliance with Knesset member Yoaz Hendel’s The…...