With millions of dollars earmarked for their care, how is it possible that even in Israel some Shoah victims are living and dying with indignity?

Why do so many Americans mistake what typically signals a failure of democracy for democracy itself?

American politicians love to talk about ‘3 a.m. phone calls,’ but Israeli leaders actually receive them

Did an anti-Zionist filmmaker from Oxford masquerade as his political opposite to get internships at lobbying outfits?

This week on Unorthodox, political reporter Rosie Gray and veteran inauguration announcer Charlie Brotman

Bad faith, political speech, and the intrusive ‘we’

Broader aims on Middle East realignment led the outgoing president’s efforts at two-track diplomacy. One track was misdirection. The other handed the region to Russia and Iran.

Is there anything behind repeated criminal allegations against the prime minister? Depends on your definition of ‘anything.’

‘I was struck by the fervent hatred many Sanders supporters maintained for Hillary Clinton.’

‘In retrospect, I clearly ignored too much of my own anecdotal evidence.’

Liberty and servitude in the new philo-czarist age

Who is behind Trump’s political data analytics company?

As former President Cristina Kirchner heads for prison, Argentina may finally hold Iran accountable for the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish Center in Buenos Aires. Excerpts from the revealing Argentine book, ‘Nisman Must Die.’

The GOP has already lost its soul to its most radical elements. Will the Dems, like Britain’s Labour, now do the same?

The flagship pro-Israel lobbying organization failed to stop Obama’s Iran Deal. It may lose even more influence under Trump.

Sources suggest the U.S. actively pressured Ukrainian officials to declare Jerusalem settlements ‘illegal’

Why did a prominent Israeli parliamentarian smuggle cell phones to a convicted murderer?

Why the new Commander-in-Chief has few good options for rebuilding the Middle East order that Obama negotiated away

How American Jews are wooed with meaningless gestures

The Jewish conservatives and ‘nation builders’ who led us into Iraq and Afghanistan bet the farm against Donald Trump, and lost. What now?

As in the late 1950s, common enemies may make strange bedfellows, or even friends, of Erdogan and Netanyahu

On Leon Pinsker’s 195th birthday, what he got right—and wrong—about his idea that a Jewish state would cure the world of anti-Semitism

The Jacksonian political movement was an enemy of swindler capitalism that enfranchised the lower class, welcomed immigrants, grew into the enduring Democratic Party, and revolutionized the United States as a democracy instead of an aristocracy

The Obama administration’s chief diplomat is the man with two brains

The Senate’s ranking Democrat sees himself as a guardian of the Jews. So why does he insist on palling around with their detractors on the left and the right alike?

PEOTUS is stacking his cabinet with friends of the Jewish State, but the geopolitical realities of Iran, Russia, Syria, Saudi Arabia, and ISIS may complicate his Middle East policy, whatever it turns out to be

Feelings of unease, and tiny pockets of satisfaction, around the results of the 2016 presidential election

The ADL says most people in the Middle East harbor anti-Semitic views. But American Jews are largely in favor of offering safe haven to them.

Israeli leftists are no strangers to sudden electoral defeats. Is there anything American liberals can learn from them?

How Fidel Castro’s libertarian exiles found unlikely allies through the Yiddish press