OpEd

With Israel confronting growing international isolation and a reckless Palestinian campaign to end-run direct negotiations at the United Nations in September, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces difficult challenges during his U.S. visit this week. In particular, the prime minister’s speech to a joint meeting of Congress on Tuesday is both an opportunity and a risk. […]

I was sorry that the unnamed rabbinic student found Israel’s relations with the Palestinians as “incredibly painful” (“Alienation From Israel Hitting Liberal Seminaries,” editor’s column, May 6). How sad that we did not hear of the slaughter of the Fogel family, Gilad Shalit’s prolonged, agonizing captivity or the persistence of the terror of rocket attacks […]