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Beams of light over Lower Manhattan last week in remembrance of the World Trade Center buildings, viewed from the Watermark in Brooklyn Heights.

23 years into the long war, no end’s in sight

Twenty-three years ago, on the sunny morning of Sept. 11, 2001, close to 3,000 people were murdered on American soil by 19 terrorists. I knew two of the victims. One was working in the World … more

By Clifford D. May | 9/18/24

When President Harrison opened US doors to Jews

Little known and even less hailed, President Benjamin Harrison played a crucial role in the immigration of Eastern European Jewry to this country in the 1890s and into the early decades of the 20th … more

By Alan Jay Gerber | 8/28/24

USS Abraham Lincoln sails in formation with other vessels in the Pacific Ocean in 2022, in support of Rim of the Pacific, the world’s largest international maritime exercise.

Defending itself while cooperating with allies

The principle of self-reliance is fundamental to Israel’s national security. Recently, doubts have been raised about this principle. For instance, Martin Indyck, the late US ambassador to … more

Analysis by Zalman Shoval, Begin Sadat Center for Strategic Studies | 8/28/24

Attempting to block integration at the University of Alabama on June 11, 1963, Gov. George Wallace is confronted by Deputy US Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach.

The National Guard can protect Jewish students

I remember when Alabama Gov. George Wallace in 1963 barred entry of two students, James Hood and Vivian Malone, to the University of Alabama because of their race. The response from President … more

By Leonard Grunstein | 8/21/24

How Chabad Lubavitch and Modern Orthodoxy approach leadership vacuums after 30 years

The Chabad-Lubavitch movement marked the passing — 30 years ago — of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the Lubavitcher Rebbe, in July. The movement continues … more

By Dovid Zaklikowski, JNS | 8/21/24

The funeral of children who were killed at a soccer field by a rocket fired from Lebanon, in the Druze town of Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights on July 28.

Israel again shows a long arm of retribution

The killing of senior Hamas leader Ismail Han-iyeh on July 31 is just another in a long line of anti-terror activities that take place outside the borders of Israel. For a country that struggles … more

By Stephen M. Flatow | 8/7/24

A view of Me’arat HaMakhpela, the Tomb of the Patriarchs and Matriarchs, in Hebron.

Whose land Israel? History provides the answer

On Nov. 2, 1917, amid the turmoil of World War I, British Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour sent a public letter to Baron Lionel Walter Rothschild, a former member of Parliament and leader of … more

By Jerold Auerbach | 7/25/24

A memorial event marking this year’s 30 years anniversary of the bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, which killed 85 people.

It’s been 30 years since the murders at AMIA

Last week, I led a Conference of Presidents leadership mission that represented the American Jewish community at the commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the bombing of AMIA, the Jewish center in … more

By William Daroff | 7/25/24

Delegates to the San Remo Conference in Italy on April 25, 1920.

Defy those who tell Israelis they’re trespassers

The United Nations has long referred to Judea and Samaria as “occupied” Palestinian land, and the global body’s principal judicial arm, the International Court of Justice in The Hague, issued a non-binding ruling last Friday declaring that “occupation” to be ... more

By Dave Gordon | 7/25/24

Haredim being trained on weapons during Israel’s War of Independence.

Forgotten fighters: Ultra-Orthodox in ’48 war

The cries of ultra-Orthodox leaders echo through Israel’s political landscape. Protesters from Peleg Yerushalmi (Jerusalem faction) decry the potential conscription of haredi youth, even those … more

By Nadav Shragai, Israel Hayom | 7/24/24