5+ day, 1+ hour ago   (453+ words) Every election, we are told, is too important for principle. It was an extraordinary formulation, but a familiar political temptation. El-Sayed has now apologized more fully for his response to the March terrorist attack on Temple Israel outside Detroit. After…...

5+ day, 1+ hour ago   (485+ words) Something consequential is happening to Shas, the Sephardi ultra-Orthodox party that has been a pillar of Benjamin Netanyahu’s governing coalition and, for decades, one of Israel’s most durable political forces. Shas won 11 Knesset seats in 2022. Recent polls put it around…...

5+ day, 5+ hour ago   (302+ words) Can Our Democracy Survive the Challenge? The op-ed by David Butler “When Technology Outpaces Democracy” (Aug. 20) represents an important appeal to the American electorate to become aware of the dangers of our changed culture. Having made a strong case for…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (598+ words) Settlers. Colonists. By now, there is hardly any need to add the adjective “violent.” In the imagination of much of the world, it is simply taken for granted. Anti-Israel propaganda has chosen above all to showcase young hooligans with long…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (397+ words) Hasan Piker does not particularly interest us. America has never lacked people willing to say ugly things about Jews. What interests us — and increasingly alarms us — is why so many people who should know better keep inviting him into the…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (930+ words) When Dana Fink was growing up in Atlanta, her two older sisters went to an orthodontist whose office had a step at the entrance. When it was Dana’s turn to become a patient, she refused to go until the office…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (578+ words) There is nothing irrational about that hope. Leadership matters, and history has repeatedly been shaped by extraordinary individuals whose courage and judgment altered the course of nations. Winston Churchill could not have led Britain through its darkest hour without those…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (571+ words) As Israelis prepare to head to the polls for the first time since Oct. 7, 2023, the D.C. area’s Jewish community is tuned in through educational programming. The multipart series aim to break down Israel’s complex political system and examine how the outcome…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (340+ words) Americans should not have to choose between the right to protest and the right to pray. The Right to Worship Act rests on the proposition that we are capable of protecting both. That history also demonstrates why this legislation is…...