Love of Israel and politics came to Queens on Sunday with Israel’s minister of justice, Ayelet Shaked, and Ambassador John Bolton speaking to a packed audience at the Young Israel of Jamaica Estates. Known for her outspokenness, Shaked is a computer engineer by trade who has been a member of Knesset for the Jewish Home […]

Israel’s Minister of Justice Ayelet Shaked told a full house Sunday evening that the American-Israeli bond was “unbreakable and unshakable” and that the “importance of an undivided and unified Jerusalem” to the Jewish people meant that the nation’s capital would never be divided. “No terror attacks, no murder’s knife, will erode the iron will of […]

An investigation into complaints that CUNY campuses are hostile places for Jewish students has produced a report heavy on high-minded pablum. Chancellor James Milliken ordered up the probe by two notable New York lawyers in response to a Zionist Organization of America letter that portrayed Jews as targets of verbal attacks and physic.al harassment. After […]

Last week, the chancellor of The City University of New York released a report by CUNY-hired outside counsel investigating allegations of campus anti-Semitism. The investigation was triggered by a 14-page letter from the Zionist Organization of America to CUNY’s leadership, which noted, among other incidents, how during a rally last November held by Students for […]

Irrespective of one’s personal opinion of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s videotaped remarks on Palestinian “ethnic cleansing” of Jews from any future Palestinian state, Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt’s scornful public condemnation is simply beyond the pale. On numerous occasions over the past few months, I have expressed incredulity and anger at the statements of Greenblatt […]

It seems that no matter what side of the political spectrum you fall on, this year’s presidential election is a bizarre one. “This is the most unique election that we’ve certainly had in modern history,” remarked a bemused Andrew C. McCarthy. Usually hesitant to make sweeping statements like that, McCarthy — a contributing editor and […]

Morton Klein gives a brilliant presentation on the effects of Islam on popular culture and dispels the myths of “Islamophobia”. This video is from the speaker series which took place on August 31st at the Luxe Hotel on August 31st in Los Angeles as part of the “Can Islam Coexist with Western Civilization” series.   […]

To the Editor: The regional chair of the Anti-Defamation League attacked both freedom of speech and the ZOA while utilizing serious inaccuracies (“Printing Attack on ADL Unjustified,” Aug. 11). Firstly, she opposes the Exponent’s right to publish legitimate criticism by the ZOA of the ADL, writing that she “was puzzled and chagrined that the Exponent […]

Beating Back Radical Islam Contributing editor Robert Sklar’s Aug. 18 essay “Can Israel Overcome Palestinian Religious Decree” (page 6) was interesting. Unfortunately, the “elephant in the room” is political Islam. You can’t have peace when you teach your children to hate, and that ties to political Islam (Sharia law). Over a year and a half […]