Opinion Interview | Gabriela Shalev on The United Nations and Israel
What are the high and low points in Israel’s history with the United Nations?
I still remember the night my father woke me up at age...
Opinion | Natalie Portman: A Role Model for Diaspora Jews
Natalie Portman made a political statement: You, Mr. Netanyahu, she said, are not the state.
Opinion | Bibi Abroad Vs. Bibi at Home
It’s been a roller-coaster two weeks for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu—from the triumph of AIPAC to the discontent and rancor at home in Jerusalem.
Opinion Debate | Should Israel Deport African Asylum Seekers? | No, It Shouldn’t
Let’s create forward-thinking models—and ambassadors of light from Israel to the world.
Opinion | Shlomo Carlebach’s Tangled Legacy
It was the maydeleh’s #MeToo movement 20 years ahead of its time.
Opinion | Rethinking Threats to Israel
Whatever the intensity of the anti-Israel voices rising from BDS and other anti-Israel advocacy organizations, they do not threaten our country’s national security.
Opinion | Symbolic, But Destructive
President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and direct the State Department to begin moving the U.S. embassy there has given rise to a slew of commentary.
Opinion | Does Israel Need a Law to Make It Jewish?
What is the role of Jewish law in the life of a Jewish state? The question might seem abstract, but the Knesset has been debating it heatedly for months, often in discussions that deteriorate into shouting matches.
Yes, American Jews Do Serve
I was first introduced to the anti-Semitic trope that “Jews don’t serve” when I was still on active duty. I was showing a superior the hospital that I worked at, and somehow it came to light that I was a Jew.
Opinion | Remembering the Real Yitzhak Rabin
I was at that peace rally in Tel Aviv, 22 years ago, when Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated. And for most years since, I have marked that date by attending memorial rallies in that same square. But this year, I won’t go to the annual rally in the square.
Opinion | Seeing Israel in Its Contradictory Glory
American missions to Israel need to expand their scope beyond hasbara.