Calls for “limited strikes” on Iran are once again circulating in Washington, dressed up as prudence and restraint. The idea is seductive: a calibrated...

Sheltering Killers & Making Excuses Dear Editor: Thirty years ago this week, Palestinian Arab terrorists bombed a bus on Jaffa Road, in downtown Jerusalem. Twenty-six passengers...

There are moments in the life of a democracy when fidelity to legal process, once a guarantor of legitimacy, begins to undermine the very...

Oslo Abandons the Oslo Accords Dear Editor: The Norwegian capital of Oslo, where the accords between Israel and the Palestinian Arab leadership were negotiated thirty-three years...

  Democracies are not measured solely by their fidelity to procedure. They are measured by their capacity to sustain legitimacy when procedure, extended beyond proportion,...

In the months following the atrocities of October 7, Spain—and Barcelona in particular—has undergone a disturbing metamorphosis, one that has startled Jewish communities across...

New York is no stranger to winter. Snowstorms and bitter cold are part of the city’s long, inconvenient relationship with reality. What is unfamiliar—deeply...

Exploitation of the Holocaust Dear Editor: I share your outrage (in your Feb. 4 editorial) about Gov. Tim Walz distorting the memory of Anne Frank, and...

There comes a moment in international affairs when the language of diplomacy, once a necessary instrument of restraint, hardens into an excuse for inaction....

Invoking well-known names from the Holocaust in order to score political points seems to be the latest fad. What a cruel and distasteful fad...

What the Term “Holocaust” Means Dear Editor: There has been much confusion on what the term holocaust means. Allow me to clarify. The Holocaust is the systematic...

Jew Hatred is the World’s Oldest Sin Dear Editor: Are you a racist? Jew-hatred is the world’s oldest sin. Here are a few simple indications you may...

President Trump has pledged to reshape the Middle East with a bold new diplomatic architecture, anchored by the proposed Gaza Peace Board. The ambition...

Who is a “Settler”? Dear Editor: A French book publisher, Hachette, is recalling three high school textbooks that refer to the victims of October 7 as...

There comes a moment in every long struggle when the vocabulary of diplomacy collapses under the weight of atrocity. Iran may now be at...

Leadership is not measured solely by speeches delivered, but by moments seized—or squandered—when moral clarity is most urgently required. Last week, outside the Young...