In two and a half months, voters will go to the polls for midterm elections, a key election for both the United States and the U.S.-Israel relationship.
The Democratic Party has been lurching left …
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By Jeff Dunetz
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8/22/18
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Zionism: A political movement, to establish a political and geographic nation-state for the Jewish people in their ancestral homeland.
Last week, the Israeli Knesset passed the 15th Basic Law. …
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By Jeff Dunetz
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7/25/18
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Seventy-one years ago, this week, on July 17, 1947, a rickety old steamship named the President Warfield was renamed Exodus 1947. It was closely trailed by three British navy ships, but that …
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By Jeff Dunetz
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7/18/18
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The criticism of White House Deputy Press Secretary Hogan Gidley made it clear that some American Jews have forgotten the words of the late Zionist leader Ze’ev Jabotinsky. In his famous essay, …
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By Jeff Dunetz
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7/11/18
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Although predicted by court pundits for years, last week’s resignation of Justice Anthony Kennedy was a shocker.
Soon after the announcement, Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said …
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By Jeff Dunetz
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7/4/18
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Although President Trump has simply been continuing the policies of his predecessor, under whom there was nary a peep about child immigrants, the hysteria surrounding family separation at the border …
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By Jeff Dunetz
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6/27/18
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If the name sounds familiar, it may be because New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand praised anti-Semite Tamika Mallory and her fellow Jew-hater Linda Sarsour in the 2017 Time Magazine “Time …
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By Jeff Dunetz
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6/7/18
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While the celebration of the opening of the American embassy was happening in Jerusalem, a long-promised violent Hamas protest was also happening. After the Hamas force defied …
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By Jeff Dunetz
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5/24/18
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Who says the age of miracles is over?
Seventy years to the day after President Harry Truman ignored the warnings of the State Department and some of America’s European allies and recognized …
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By Jeff Dunetz, Jewish Star columnist
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5/16/18
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“I am announcing today that the United States will withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal.”
With those words President Trump made the announced on Tuesday that the United States was …
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By Jeff Dunetz, Jewish Star columnist
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5/11/18
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