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The standoff on military assistance to the two countries must be broken. Members of both political parties in the United States need to stop pretending that the conflicts are linked

(April 16, 2024 / JNS) This past weekend’s Iranian missile attack on Israel was, among other things, a wake-up call for Congress. More than six months after Oct. 7, a bill that would provide supplemental military aid to the Jewish state that would help it fight the Hamas terrorists responsible for the massacres and defend itself against Iran is still languishing on Capitol Hill. And while the number of those who oppose helping Israel has increased in the intervening months, the reason why passage of the measure is still very much in doubt is not entirely the fault of the growing number of Democrats who have turned on the Jewish state.

AMIT Children has always been touted as promoting Jewish values. Its part of our mission statement, core to our century old organizational narrative and, at the end the day, our raison d-etre.

Israel’s consistently high rankings in the Happiness Index is fascinating. Fittingly, streets across the country have names that reflect this theme. For example, Netanya has a neighborhood filled with many joyful street names, including Ha’Gila, Ha’Rina, Ha’Ditsa, Ha’Chedva, and Tsahala.

This year’s Yom HaZikaron, Israel’s Memorial Day, starting on the evening of May 12, will be unlike any in the Jewish State’s history, as it is the first since October 7.

The news following Shabbos that Iran attacked Israel with hundreds of missiles and drones was a reliving of the October 7 nightmare all over again for the American Jewish community. The result of this attack, as opposed to October 7, did not leave as profound an impact on the lives and psyche of Israelis and the Americans who support them, due to the technological wizardry and the Divine Intervention that led to 99% of those missiles and drones to be intercepted before hitting Israeli soil.  Instead of picking up the pieces and then asking “how this happened,” we can go straight to the asking.

A generation of young Americans was taught to universalize the Nazi war on the Jews, leaving them vulnerable to being seduced by antisemitism and woke lies about Israel.

(May 6, 2024 / JNS) For decades, American Jewry has marked Yom HaShoah—Holocaust Remembrance Day—with the same rituals and rhetoric. They heard from survivors, whose numbers continue to dwindle and who bore witness about their horrific experiences. They also heard from scholars, who were part of what had become a growth industry centering on Holocaust studies, which to many Jews and non-Jews became the sum total of their knowledge of the history of the Jewish people. And they also heard from politicians and community leaders, who mouthed empty rhetoric about “never again” letting such an awful thing happen.