Netanyahu is right, and it’s important for his usual critics, including me, to acknowledge it.

He’s right, first because the highest justification for fighting a war, besides survival, is to prevent its repetition.

Noam Tibon, a retired general, argued on Channel 12 TV Sunday that Netanyahu’s position was undermining a foundational principle of trust between the state and its people, “and that’s why it is so unforgivable, and it will not stand.”

I confess that after watching heart-wrenching testimonies of parents whose children are still being held captive, I got weak: “We must do everything in our power to get them out,” I thought. “Everything.”

Of course it’s not that simple. Israel is dealing with terrorists who don’t much care for human life, their own people included.

The U.S. also played into Sinwar’s hands, particularly in May when the Biden administration limited or delayed American arms shipments to Israel over the decision to enter Gaza’s city of Rafah, where six dead hostages were discovered over the weekend.

…we should point out Israeli troops would’ve been in Rafah in February or March if it had not been for the Biden administration, which withheld munitions from the Israelis to prevent them from doing operations in Rafah… the reason Hamas did not want Israel to go in there is because it was a Hamas stronghold.

It would send a terrible signal if the response from the Biden-Harris administration were to move closer to Hamas’s position in cease-fire negotiations. Instead, Biden must follow through on his declaration that Hamas will pay.

While exercising utmost caution concerning the lives of the remaining hostages, Hamas must be held accountable for these barbaric acts.

The claim that only military pressure will bring back the hostages was never true. By now, it is completely belied.

Any signal of weakness will only embolden our enemies. Instead, we must make it clear that any attack on Israeli civilians will lead to consequences so severe that no enemy will dare to challenge us again.

Three years after the deadly and chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, many evacuees and allies remain in limbo.

Thousands airlifted out of the country are stuck in an immigration backlog that leaves them without a permanent way to remain in the U.S.

Forty million Afghans were simply abandoned to an uncertain future — and millions have since fled the country as a result. Years of hard-won progress have been undone as women’s roles in Afghan society, media and politics have been diminished.

In the three years since, none of these doomsday predictions have come to pass. Nonetheless, the weeks-long evacuation remains fodder for the campaign trail; former President Trump constantly reminds rallygoers of the “Afghanistan catastrophe,” hoping to use the chaotic withdrawal as a referendum on the Biden-Harris administration’s foreign policies.

Part of the reason for the minimal mentions of climate is the nature of the race itself. President Biden dropped out of the running just over a month ago, leaving little time for Harris and other Democrats to flesh out a distinct, detailed agenda on many issues, including climate, so there’s less to talk about.

She also has talked about climate on the campaign trail far less frequently than President Joe Biden did when he ran for president. In his 2020 acceptance speech for the Democratic nomination, Mr. Biden called climate change an “existential threat” and said, “It’s not only a crisis, it’s an enormous opportunity.

The progressive hush over Harris’ lack of policy details spans areas beyond climate. While Biden faced rancor over his handling of the conflict in Gaza, Harris has dealt with comparatively less blowback from Palestinian advocates who hope she will forge a different path if elected.

Crispy baba t’amar with their soft gooey date fillings and cheese sambusak. Cheese sambusak are the perfect treat for on-the-go snacking, a cute little hand pie filled with a mixture of white and yellow cheeses.

As a 13-year-old boy, Elon Kviatkovsky, the Chef at LA Kosher Catering at Valley Beth Shalom, had two options when he returned home from school: a sandwich or a home-cooked dinner. The choice was obvious, but there was a catch—he had to prepare the dinner himself.

Adrienne Krone began thinking about the entire system of kashrut—Jewish dietary laws—and how to relate ethically to food while researching historical religious diet movements as a Duke University graduate student. Today Krone is assistant professor of religious studies and director of Jewish life at Allegheny College, and her class “Judaism, Justice, and Food” examines the complex justice issues related to food, Jewish biblical dietary laws and rabbinic regulations, and the various aspects of food production.