The Israeli opening strike that marked the end of the ceasefire in Gaza isn’t U.S. President Donald Trump’s “gates of hell” threat, but it does signal a shift: dozens of aircraft struck hundreds of targets reflecting Hamas’ political and civil capabilities, not just its military ones.

Israel has decided to break the paradigm by resuming military action. While this step does carry risks for the hostages, the alternative—giving Hamas more time to prepare and solidify its control—is far worse. Further delays could result in hostages dying in tunnels while the IDF is forced to fight a more fortified and emboldened enemy.

Hamas’s strategic position is badly compromised.

Iran, Hezbollah, and almost all of Hamas’s allies are exhausted, at least for the foreseeable future, with apparently no appetite to lift a finger or fire a rocket to save the terror group. The exception, the Houthis in Yemen…

While Trump’s administration aggressively pursues policies to counter anti-Semitism—particularly, in academia—Biden’s administration was weak and ineffective. Lipstadt, formally responsible for combating anti-Semitism abroad, should focus less on punctuation and more on why anti-Semitism surged on her watch.

I didn’t see Trump, “the best friend Jewish Americans have ever had,” calling out Musk or caring a lick about that particular explosion of antisemitism. In fact, it doesn’t appear Trump even cares about the fact that Jewish scholars and advocacy groups oppose the hyphenated form of the term “antisemitism” that Trump used in his executive order.

All of this disagreement over a hyphen should be an alert that “antisemitism,” however spelled, is a confusing and overly complicated word for “anti-Jewishness.” If anti-Jewishness is what we mean, let’s just say it.

How many times must the United Nations betray its own founding mission before we finally say “enough”? This is no longer merely bias; it is institutionalized deception, a voluntary surrender of moral authority to terrorist narratives.

…when a Syrian kills a Syrian, the UN remains silent. As the well-known proverb goes: “No Jews, no news.” And the opposite is also true: Just two weeks ago, UN Secretary-General António Guterres – a known antisemite – held a warm and friendly meeting with Syria’s mass murderer and president, Abu Muhammad al-Joulani.

Despite the evidence presented, Israeli officials immediately rejected it, labeling it “antisemitic” and “a blood libel.” Some of this is motivated by Israeli anger at the UN, for allegations acknowledged by the agency itself that nine employees of UNRWA may have participated in the October 7 attacks on Israel. However, by condemning the report outright, the Israeli government frees itself from having to address the concrete, documented evidence…

Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. was right on the merits when he said in a rare statement on Tuesday that impeaching judges “is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision.” But it might have been better not to amplify President Donald Trump’s social media whining with a response.

Not content with simply allowing rogue lower court judges’ judicial jihad against the executive branch to continue unabated, the chief justice has now taken it upon himself to criticize President Donald Trump for calling for District Court Judge James Boasberg to be impeached.

The open contempt for the judiciary stems from Trump’s first term, in which the judicial branch stifled his record-setting use of executive orders, hindering his ability to impose his agenda without Congress. Now, in his second term, the same thing is happening…

Newsom’s statement that transgender athletes participation in women’s sports was “deeply unfair” enraged the Democratic establishment. But it also revealed Newsom’s strategy to beat the Republicans.

Does Gavin Newsom — who came out against trans women in sports last week — really think that the MAGA base will embrace him now? Or is it possible that conservatives will see him as “really” a liberal? Hmm, let’s think.

The other issue for Newsom is that if he were ever to run for president, he’d have to get through the primary electorate first. And it’s clear that Newsom has immediately sparked a backlash online from many progressives who think his pivot is expedient and marks an abandonment of the trans community.

In many siddurim, following the morning service, six remembrances are printed, each one a verse commanding us to remember (or not to forget) something… The order of these remembrances is curious. It is not chronological, nor does it follow the order of the appearance of the events in the Torah; it also does not follow the order of the verses being cited to remember the events. What is the effect of remembering these things together, and, specifically, in this particular order?

My Hasidic education was attuned to meaning, not money. I learned how to patiently engage with and closely read ancient texts, dissect an argument from every angle, and pray meditatively for hours on end. On Thursday nights, like other teenagers, my classmates and I drank alcohol, listened to music and hung out together — only we did so around a table headed by a revered rabbi who inspired, rebuked and challenged us, listening with our hearts to the moving melodies we sang together.

If the West is going to survive as a semi-concrete entity and not either be subsumed into an amorphous global neoliberal blob or be conquered by wokeism and Islamism, it is imperative that its core constituent parts all stand boldly together. Specifically, Western Jews and Christians must stand shoulder-to-shoulder like never before.