3+ week, 4+ day ago   (258+ words) Three countries with very different interests signed a remarkably ambitious agreement in Mecca earlier this month. Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan declared that an armed attack against any one of them would be considered an attack against all three. That…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago   (381+ words) For years, Israel’s religious divide has been described in familiar terms. There are the Haredim, fighting over military service, religious authority and state support. There are the settlers, increasingly identified with the politics of Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben Gvir....

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1258+ words) Israel has not just become a pathologically unhinged obsession in the Western world. It’s also turning into a wedge issue that’s splitting Diaspora Jews from each other. Last week, New York City’s Islamist mayor Zohran Mamdani broadcast a video packed…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (744+ words) Sharon Altshul | JNS As the 2026 school year ends and summer vacation begins, Israel’s high school students are completing an educational journey that has been anything but ordinary. After beginning their teenage years during the COVID-19 pandemic and finishing them against…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (567+ words) Israel Baseball Americas, the nonprofit that oversees the Israeli national teams and works to spur the popularity of America’s game among Jews at home and in Israel, has deep Baltimore ties. Chief Operating Officer Adam Gladstone is a Baltimore native…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (424+ words) Joseph Puder | JTA Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan has also escalated the anti-Israel rhetoric, saying in an interview with Turkey’s CNN Türk TV that Israel is “a burden that humanity can no longer bear” and “a problem for the entire…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (624+ words) I challenge you to name a place where a Coptic Egyptian who once considered himself anti-Zionist could spend two days in candid conversation with Jews, Druze, Muslim reformers, Iranians, Assyrians and representatives from Somaliland. That was the scene in late…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (233+ words) This is hardly a new idea. Throughout the Cold War, the United States invested heavily in Voice of America and Radio Free Europe because Washington understood that ideas could weaken adversaries as surely as armies. Today’s technologies are different, but…...