Editorial: Abbas’ New Ra’am Party
The Ra’am Party is not an obvious place to look for an experiment in Jewish-Arab political partnership. The United Arab List grew out of...
Editorial: Choosing Party Over Principle
Every election, we are told, is too important for principle.
That is essentially the argument Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel recently presented to Jewish Democrats...
Editorial: The Rebbes Go to Washington
An extraordinary procession of Hasidic rebbes and Orthodox leaders descended upon the White House last week, some arriving by private jet, for what was...
Editorial: What’s Happening to Shas?
Something consequential is happening to Shas, the Sephardi ultra-Orthodox party that has been a pillar of Benjamin Netanyahu’s governing coalition and, for decades, one...
Editorial: Is There Still a Line?
Hasan Piker does not particularly interest us. America has never lacked people willing to say ugly things about Jews.
What interests us — and increasingly...
Editorial: The Turkey Red Line
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...
Editorial: Advocacy by Omission
Forty members of Congress, led by Rep. Rashida Tlaib, are demanding that Secretary of State Marco Rubio secure the immediate release of Sama Safi,...
Editorial: When the Right Defeats Itself
Sometimes political change comes through a great ideological realignment. Sometimes it comes because politicians who cannot stand one another refuse to sit in the...
Editorial: What the Numbers Don’t See
For decades, the federal government has required large employers to count their employees by race, ethnicity and sex and report the results to the...
Editorial: When Jewish Children Are Not Safe at School
There are stories one expects to read about American schools in 2026: falling test scores, teacher shortages, cellphone bans, artificial intelligence in the classroom....