Less than six months into his job as US President Donald Trump’s adviser on international negotiations and chief Middle East negotiator, Jason Greenblatt is already feeling heat. Following his trips to the Middle East in both March and May, some in the pro-Israel community have already begun accusing the chief negotiator of coming under the
Just days ago, right outside the Israeli Knesset in Jerusalem, there was a protest calling on Israel to ‘Save Syria’.
Reb Eliezer dedicated his life to commemorating the victims of mankind’s greatest crime, ensuring that it never be lost to the public consciousness. Before the serious policy disagreements on the Iran nuclear agreement and the inaction in Syria that would come between me and Samantha Power, America’s former ambassador to the UN, I remember studying
The most important human rights story of the week seems to have been largely overshadowed by political headlines. The report that should consume the international community is the revelation that U.S. satellite photos have identified crematoria at Syrian President Bashar Assad’s Sednaya prison. Assad built these killing centers to destroy the evidence of his mass
By far the most shocking thing I heard at the Jerusalem Post conference in New York was former Israel Defense Forces chief of staff Dan Halutz saying that Bashar Assad was good for Israel, because Assad keeps the peace in Syria and a modicum of stability. Expect that he doesn’t. Syria is a mess of death and
Since my recent return from March of the Living at Auschwitz, I’ve written a series of articles on both my experiences at the death camp and the harrowing mental processing that’s followed. When you visit a place like Birkenau, where the very earth you walk on is soaked in the blood of innocent men, women and
The moral of the story is that not every dispute in Chabad is about pure ideology. Twenty-three years ago, I was forced to resign as Chabad rabbi to the Jewish students at Oxford University. The reason: I had some 5,000 non-Jewish student members of our organization,
This Sunday, I will be flying to Israel immediately after the gala dinner of our organization, the World Values Network. I am going to attend the 50th anniversary of Jerusalem Day, when Israel reunified Jerusalem in the 1967 war, affirming the Jewish people’s rebirth in their ancient capital after the devastation of the Holocaust. President Donald Trump will be
Israel is trying everything to recover his body, because the Israeli people demand that their children must always come home. By far the most shocking thing I heard at The Jerusalem Post Conference in New York was former IDF chief of staff Dan Halutz saying that Syrian President Bashar Assad was good for Israel, by
Yesterday, insofar as anyone can recall, was the first-ever White House commemoration of Israel’s birth as a nation. It was a top-of-the-line, incredible Israel Independence day celebration, attended by many of America’s leaders paying homage to the Jewish state. Here you had the Vice President of the United States, Mike Pence, representing himself and President