David M. Weinberg

Relief Many people around the world, including Israelis and Jews everywhere, breathe a bit easier this morning after the US military struck Iran’s three leading nuclear bomb development sites, thus making a concrete contribution to Israel’s ten-day-long defensive war effort against Iran. Ambassador Ronald S. Lauder, President of the World Jewish Congress, appropriately put it […]

Everybody who wants to see the West triumph over the radical Islamo-fascist camp led by Iran smirked and smiled just a bit this week when thousands of beepers simultaneously exploded in the pockets of Hezbollah leaders in Lebanon and Syria. Such “schadenfreude,” German for satisfaction felt at someone else’s misfortune, is more than reasonable. In […]

There is no solution to the haredi draft issue. Haredi leaders are not budging – despite October 7, despite the near-existential threat situation Israel finds itself in across seven fronts, despite the attendant acute military manpower crisis, despite the enormous sacrifices in dead and wounded and kidnapped and displaced, and despite financial deprivation and household […]