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Editor's Notes: Germany’s ‘good Jews’ thought they were safe, New York should pay attention

Nobody has to work anything out anymore. The question is whether a single one of Mamdani's Jewish voters will say they were wrong.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani speaks about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at an unknown location, in this still image taken from handout video released July 21, 2026.
US VICE President JD Vance and President Donald Trump listen to Secretary of State Marco Rubio at the White House, April 23, 2026, during an earlier round of talks. Trump leads now; Vance and Rubio are next. Israel was in the room as an ambassador, not a principal.

Editor's Notes: Israel just met the America that comes after Trump - comment

DF armored forces at a staging area in southern Israel near the border with Gaza. January 01, 2024.

Editor's Notes: High Court ruling on women in tanks deepens religious divide in IDF - comment

US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu give thumbs-up at the White House in Washington, DC, US, September 29, 2025.

US Jews are realizing that Netanyahu can handle war better than Trump can - comment


Speed factor

On Sunday it was a bus driver’s recklessness that resulted in the death of six and the injury of a dozen.

Bus accident on Highway 1 on February 14, 2016

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Letters

Praying room

Just as free and open markets are a boon to economies, so too will a freer religious environment encourage more vibrant Jewish religious expression.

An ultra-orthodox Hassidic Jew is restrained by a Border Policeman as he screams against a group of Reform and Conservative rabbis holding prayers at the Western Wall

Letters: April fools

Readers share their opinion on the recent articles and news.

Envelope

Celebrating Tu Bishvat

In addition to planting trees and holding Tu Bishvat Seders, no day is more fitting then Tu Bishvat to deal with pressing environmental issues facing the State of Israel.

Trees of the Odem Forest on the Golan Heights

Anti-Semitism in Europe

“We are so used to Jews being killed because they are Jewish,” wrote Charlie Hebdo editor-in-chief Gerard Biard.

A French soldier secures the entrance to a Jewish school in Paris after the Charlie Hebdo and Hyper Cacher terrorist attacks last January

Deepening the divide

No conditions should be set for receiving basic rights such as equal funding for health, housing and education, or adequate law enforcement.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the scene of the shooting attack in Tel Aviv

No kindness

By deciding to limit morality, ZAKA is already losing direction.

Zaka first responders Yossi Frankel (right) and Benzi Oring pose in front of one of the organization’s emergency vehicles

Remembering the UN’s hypocrisy, 40 years on

A roundup of news from across the country.

BGU HONOREES (back row, from left) Nobel Prize laureate Prof. Yisrael Aumann, BGU rector Prof. Zvi Hacohen, journalist Judy Siegel-Itzkovich, media personality Yitzhak Livni, (front row, from left) entrepreneur and philanthropist Judith Yovel Recanati, Negev activist Dodik Shoshani, BGU president Ri

Collateral damage

Haftom Zarhum, an Eritrean migrant, was shot by a guard and beaten by a mob during a terrorist attack at the Beersheba Central Bus Station last month.

Blood at the scene where terrorist was shot at the Beersheba central bus station on October 18, 2015