3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (282+ words) By David J. Benger Same meal. Same neighbors. Different rules. On Aug. 25, the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel concluded that this arrangement is not merely strange. It is unconstitutional. The Office of Legal Counsel is the component of the Justice…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (947+ words) Put it this way, and it sounds very close indeed: the election is next month. Its outcome will largely be decided this coming Tuesday, just as it was decided the last time when Balad chose to break up the Joint…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (251+ words) Israel has every reason to be worried about Turkey’s growing military presence in Syria. It also has every reason not to turn that concern into a war with Turkey. Israel cannot simply watch that happen without asking where Turkish involvement…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (713+ words) Baltimore Jewish Times My Republican friends think Gov. Wes Moore spends too much and too frivolously. My Democratic friends think he doesn’t spend enough and cuts the budget too dispassionately. But what should count in politics is whether words and…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (853+ words) This being Israel, everyone has an opinion. And the more personally it applies to someone, the more conviction in the opinions expressed. So it has been since Oct. 7, 2023, with a continued presence in the Upper Galilee. In 2009, along with our…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (742+ words) By Dr. Ivan Gulas Washington and Tehran are both at the table, and both are telling their people they hold the upper hand. Washington points to a struck nuclear program, a wrecked economy, a leadership decapitated on the war’s first…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (748+ words) For years, a cheap airline ticket made the Jewish state feel almost European. An Israeli could fly to Warsaw for the weekend, a student in Milan could visit family in Israel, and a European Jew could travel to Tel Aviv…...

3+ week, 3+ 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…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (437+ words) Something deeply troubling is happening in American publishing. What may have begun as hostility toward Israel and Zionism increasingly appears to be bleeding into something broader: discomfort with Jews and Jewish identity itself. The evidence is becoming difficult to dismiss....

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (378+ words) These concerns are real, and they deserve honest discussion and debate. Friends and family can disagree on these issues while remaining committed to Israel’s future. Faced with these pressures, some have begun to distance themselves. They reduce their support for…...