How should Netanyahu approach the new Biden administration?
{Previously published by the JNS} In the winter of 2015, one of Israel’s most senior security cabinet officials asked me what advice should he give to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin…
Is it too late to salvage the US and Israeli-Jewish relationship?
{Previously published in The Jerusalem Post} There was a time when religious and non-religious Jews, capitalists and socialists, Democrats and Republicans, Americans and Israelis, looked past their differences and political…
Is it true that normalization doesn’t improve Israel’s existential problem?
{Previously published by the JNS} Hadar Susskind, the president and CEO of Americans for Peace Now, penned an article in JTA titled, “Normalizing relations with the UAE does nothing to…
Is it time for US Jewry to stop caring if elected reps. are Jewish?
{Previously published in The Jerusalem Post} A recent JTA article reported that six Jewish candidates were vying in late summer Massachusetts primaries that reverberated with “multiple consequential clashes with Jewish…
For their survival, Saudis need to follow UAE’s lead
{Previously published in The Jerusalem Post} In the five-dimensional chess board of the Middle East, the United Arab Emirates’ announcement of normalization and formal ties with Israel is equivalent to…
Does the Beirut explosion increase chances of a northern war with Israel?
{Previously published by the JNS} As officials in Lebanon continue their investigation into the devastating explosion at the Beirut port, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah has been quick to deny any…
What does pro-Israel mean in the age of Trump?
{Previously published in The Jerusalem Post} The term “pro-Israel” has become has become a lightning rod, due in part to President Donald Trump’s many self-described pro-Israel statements and actions, and…
Are Beinart and Rogen the handwriting on the wall for Diaspora Jewry?
{Previously published by the JNS} Much has been written about Peter Beinart’s recent article “I No Longer Believe in a Jewish State” and Seth Rogen’s simplistic ill-informed podcast delegitimizing the…
Editorialized news reporting is worse now than the Bari Weiss controversy
In 2016, James Rutenberg, the media reporter for The New York Times, wrote, “You have to throw out the textbook American journalism…. You would move closer than you’ve ever been…
Why Palestinians can’t sign an end-of-conflict pact
Palestinian Arabs cannot sign an agreement that ends all claims and recognizes the right of a Jewish state to exist and live unmolested on land that was ever Muslim. According…