Opinion: No Vote for Genocide Liars
By James Sinkinson
Politicians who claim that Israel committed genocide in Gaza are lying to you. A review of genocide’s definition, plus hard evidence, disproves...
Opinion: Why Democracies Keep Looking for Kings
By Efrat Last
Every democracy eventually faces the same temptation: Problems that once appeared manageable become entrenched, public trust erodes, institutions lose credibility, and political...
Opinion: Don’t Answer the Antisemites; It’s a Political War
By Fiamma Nirenstein
It is a mistake to respond to antisemitic accusations.
Would responding have served any purpose at the time of the racial laws and...
D’var Torah: The Covenant and the Choices We Make
By Rabbi Michael Werbow
This week’s Torah portion Ki Tavo: Deuteronomy 26:1 — 29:8
We often see that for a single Hebrew word in the Torah...
Letters to the Editor: August 28
‘Too Jewish to Publish’ (Editorial, Aug. 21)
In the current setting of virulent antisemitism and anti-Zionism, I am distressed but not surprised that publishers are...
Opinion: When Pain Is Not Persuasion
By Dr. Ivan Gulas
Washington and Tehran are both at the table, and both are telling their people they hold the upper hand. Washington points...
Opinion: How Israel Will Bring the Oct. 7 Criminals to Justice
By Joel M. Margolis
Israel is preparing a special military tribunal to prosecute an estimated 300 suspects captured during the Hamas-led invasion of Israel on...
Opinion: Kim Jong-un’s European Front
By Clifford D. May
North Korea is learning modern warfare on Ukrainian ground—and Russia is paying the tuition.
In 1240, Mongol warriors led by Genghis Khan’s...
Opinion: Access Is Not Influence
By David J. Butler
New York’s Jewish leaders recently met with Mayor Zohran Mamdani again. They told him they are worried, that his words about...
Editorial: What the Numbers Don’t See
For decades, the federal government has required large employers to count their employees by race, ethnicity and sex and report the results to the...










