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A tip of the kippah to the architects of Zionism — those stubborn visionaries who believed a battered people could build a modern state out of desert, memory, and sheer human will. They dreamed of a country that would gather Jews from around the world and give them safety, dignity, and a shared future. WhatContinue reading “The Jew News Review – November 29, 2025 – “Startup Nation” or “Exit Nation”?”

Shabbat shalom! First, a belated g’mar tov and a heartfelt hope that everyone enjoyed a good breaking of the fast after a steady diet of atonement. If ever there were a year that demanded repentance, reflection, and maybe an extra bagel with cream cheese schmear afterward, this was it. And since this is the season of honestContinue reading “The Jew News Review – October 4, 2025 – “From Fenway to Fat Bears to the Sounds of Hollywood Silence””

Shabbat shalom. JNR readers may have noticed that I have not been doing my usual roundup of the news in recent posts. My reason for doing so is that for the last few months, the issues facing Jews seem so awful, so dire and existential, that brief summaries don’t seem appropriate. So I take upContinue reading “The Jew News Review – August 9, 2025 – “It’s time for Israel to “win the peace”””

France has given the world so much to admire. The Enlightenment. Impressionism. The croissant. Existentialism, cinema, Sartre. And diplomacy itself, la diplomatie, not just in practice but in vocabulary. From détente to rapprochement, from chargé d’affairesto coup d’état, France has authored the lexicon of conflict resolution and international civility. It’s no accident that diplomats once trained in French and conducted negotiationsContinue reading “The Jew News Review – Special Edition – July 28, 2025 – ““Independence Day for Terror: France’s Gift to Hamas””

Shabbat shalom! While the orange man continues his efforts to cancel Sesame Street, I thought it would be fitting to dedicate the theme of this post to one of my favorite Sesame characters, Kermit the Frog.  Thanks for reading The Jew News Review! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. KermitContinue reading “The Jew News Review – July 18, 2025 – “Diaspora Jews: “It’s not that easy being green”””

Shabbat shalom! Let’s travel in the wayback machine to London, circa 1967. It’s just before the curtain rises on Fiddler on the Roof at a London theater, when Chaim Topol—Israel’s iconic Tevye—steps out before the audience. War had broken out back home. The Jewish state, surrounded by Arab armies vowing its destruction, was under existential threat. TopolContinue reading “The Jew News Review – July 11, 2025 – “From Topol to Glastonbury: How we went from cheering to jeering Jews””

Shabbat shalom! In a scorching recent essay titled “The New Populism of the Judeocidal Left,” British conservative columnist Melanie Phillips warned that Jews in Britain are now less safe than Israelis—and that’s saying something, considering Israelis just survived a 12-day war with Iran, a war that killed dozens of Israelis, and injured thousands from a barrage of aContinue reading “The Jew News Review – June 28, 2025 – “We are all Israelis now””

Shabbat shalom!  As a Journalism/English major in college, I was required to take a course on Major British Writers where I had my first exposure to John Milton and his epic poem, Paradise Lost, which is all about the biblical fall of man. “The mind is its own place, and in itself / Can make a HeavenContinue reading “The Jew News Review – June 21, 2025 – “Narrative Lost””

On the day of Shavuot, a day to commemorate the delivery by Moses of a book that is foundational to western civilization, a supporter of Hamas used a flame thrower and molotov cocktails to burn Jews, “simply because they were Jews”. The victims had gathered at a Jewish community event in Boulder, Colorado, held inContinue reading “The Jew News Review – Special Edition – “simply because they were Jews””