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Altruistic Aliyah: A tool for world Jewry to transform Israeli policy from within - opinion

The moment a diaspora Jew becomes an Israeli citizen, they cease to be a passive bystander affected by Israel's policies - they become an active participant in shaping them.

New French Jewish immigrants arrive at Ben Gurion Airport in central Israel on August 3, 2026.
Many Evangelicals participate in the United for Israel March outside Columbia University in New York City in 2024.

Don’t ignore the similarities between the persecution of Israelis and US Christians - opinion

Brad Lander, candidate for New York’s 10th Congressional District, Congressional candidate Claire Valdez and Congressional candidate Darializa Avila Chevalier attend the Get Out the Vote rally in Brooklyn, New York, U.S., June 18, 2026.

Moderate Dems. brace for internal war after Mamdani-backed candiates win NYC primaries

A fullmoon rises over the Temple of Poseidon, the ancient Greek god of the seas, in Cape Sounion, east of Athens, Greece, July 8, 2017.

The West funds its own executioners in ideological war it barely realizes it is fighting - opinion


Religious candidates in Labor make their pitch to liberal national-religious voters

There were numerous appeals to Biblical injunctions against the oppression of minorities, while “Kahanists” and Otzma Yehudit bore the brunt of the attack.

MK Revital Swid (Labor) speaking at a campaign event in Jerusalem, March 16, 2019

Jewish-American lesbian elected Michigan Attorney General

Nessel, who grew up attending the Reform congregation Temple Kol Ami in West Bloomfield Township, in the Detroit metropolitan area, traces many of her values back to Judaism.

Plaintiffs April Deboer (L) and her partner Jayne Rowse leave the Federal Court with their attorney Dana Nessel (R) following closing arguments on their trial that could overturn Michigan's ban on same-sex marriage in Detroit, Michigan March 7, 2014

Amos Oz on further reflection

In the early aftermath of Oz’s recent death, initial commemorations focused on his life’s most well-known elements: his fiction’s eminence and his ardent support for a two-state solution.

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The pathological animus of ‘The New York Times’

The paper is regarded as the bible of America’s intellectual classes. Yet for years, its coverage of Israel has been a disgrace.

The sun peaks over the New York Times Building in New York August 14, 2013

Top Jewish Democrat: Netanyahu, Dermer wrong to defend Trump on antisemitism

Ron Klein came to Israel to meet with government leaders and opinion settlers.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump at Ben Gurion airport on May 23, 2017

Liberals have to stop abetting ‘the jackals’

A MAN holds two flags as demonstrators at a 2014 pro-Palestinian rally march across the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City

The American liberalism that failed

Our brothers, the liberal Jews in the United States, are in the eye of the storm and take a most visible position in the campaign against President Trump and the conservatives.

An American Jew wearing a kippa embroidered with the US and Israeli flags attends a Hanukka reception at the White House last year

When a blinding echo chamber stifles diversity of thought

When New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof wrote about the dangers of “liberal intolerance,” the notion seemed inconceivable, no longer.

The sun peaks over the New York Times Building in New York August 14, 2013

Senate's vote to advance Kavanaugh polarizes liberal and conservative Jews

The groups against the decision were the National Council of Jewish Women and the Reform movement. Those praising the vote included the Republican Jewish Coalition and the Coalition for Jewish Values

US Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh testifies before a Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, US, September 27, 2018

Conservative National-Religious org. attacks liberal groups over funding

“We are saying ‘enough’ to the whitewashing of the NIF amongst the National-Religious community,” said Amital Bareli, director of Chotam.

Jennifer Gorovitz, VP of the New Israel Fund