Jerusalem Day Must Never Be Taken for Granted

Opinion A Time for Intimacy As Israel gets ready to respond to any US-Iran deal, now is the time to enter into an intimate discussion with the White House about protecting our future security. Michael Oren · May 28, 2026 As of this writing, it is still unclear whether President Trump will authorize another major…

Opinion Land, Law, and Freedom: Why Shavuot is THE Zionist Holiday The Children of Israel’s achievement at Sinai—and the goals of the earliest Zionist thinkers. Michael Oren · May 21, 2026 If freedom is impossible without responsibility and Zionism is defined by responsibility, then, for the Jewish people, true freedom comes only with Zionism. Behind…

Clarity Beyond the Precipice Whether in the horrors of October 7 or the full-fledged US-Israeli alliance against Iran, I know of no modern precedents. The Jewish people stand at a hinge of history. Michael Oren May 13, 2026 Throughout the more than two-and-a-half years of this war, there have been many moments that Israel and…

The End of the Diaspora? While governments pay lip service to fighting antisemitism, acts of Jew-hatred multiply daily and are rapidly normalizing. Michael Oren • May 05, 2026 Speaking at pro-Israel events around the world for nearly fifty years, I rarely receive a question I haven’t heard a hundred times. But at a recent conference…

Israel must once again adopt the slogan — ‘No deal is better than a bad deal.’ More than a decade ago, at the height of President Obama’s efforts to negotiate a nuclear agreement with Iran, Israel adopted the slogan, “No deal is better than a bad deal.” A bad deal, Israeli officials explained, was one…

Before Europe casts us off completely, perhaps we should separate first. It’s time, I maintain, to say goodbye. This week, on Yom Hashoa, a friend told me a story I had never heard—how her father as a young Jew in Libya during World War II was arrested by the Italians and later, after the Nazis…

Prior to Wednesday at 3 a.m. the majority of Israelis supported a war they hoped would result in a fundamental alteration of their reality. The ceasefire seems to have smashed those hopes. This piece was published last Thursday in The Free Press. Since then, the challenges facing Israel have only multiplied. The American mainstream media,…

One view of the ceasefire spells strategic disaster, the other, hope. Whichever perspective, Israel must prepare for the ongoing confrontation with Iran and its proxies. There are two ways of looking at the missiles fired by Iran at Israel on Wednesday morning after the United States announced a ceasefire. One way spells strategic disaster for…