DANIEL GOLDMAN

Daniel Goldman is Founding Partner of Goldrock Capital and Founder of The Institute for Jewish and Zionist Research. He is a businessman and social activist. He currently co-chairs the Coalition for Haredi Employment and is a former chair of Gesher and World Bnei Akiva.

YARON LISCHINSKY and Sarah Milgrim were murdered as they left an event at the Capital Jewish Museum last month. The writer wonders: How might we soften the boundaries of Jewish peoplehood by considering those who choose or are forced into the fate of being Jewish?

The Jewish community comes together when facing antisemitism - opinion

Some in the government coalition have suggested that Supreme Court Justice Noam Sohlberg cannot be considered truly conservative because he has ruled against government interests, states the writer.

The judiciaries in Israel and the United States are under siege - opinion

 Relatives of Israelis held hostage protest outside Independence Hall in Tel Aviv, April 30, 2025

Israel's independence is incomplete until every hostage comes home - opinion


A historical watershed: The haredi community's response to war - opinion

History suggests that when segments of society are perceived as avoiding shared sacrifice during existential threats, the resulting social tensions can persist for generations.

 HAREDIM PROTEST against serving in the military outside the IDF Recruitment Office in Jerusalem in February.

How Donald Trump's 'America first' agenda may backfire on him - opinion

What we’re witnessing might be called the “nationalist boomerang” – when one country’s overassertive nationalism triggers defensive nationalist responses elsewhere.

 U.S. President Donald Trump holds a letter from Britain's King Charles as he meets with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer (not pictured) in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., February 27, 2025.

Israel's antisemitism strategy: Picking political allies over Diaspora Jews - opinion

The Israeli government has exposed a growing rift between its political calculations in terms of fighting antisemitism, and the actual concerns of Diaspora Jews.

 Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli

Rabbi Dov Landau’s extremism exposes Israel’s growing haredi dilemma - opinion

For those hoping that shared national challenges might bridge the secular-religious divide, Rabbi Landau’s words are deeply discouraging.

 RABBI DOV LANDAU is watched as he enters a vehicle in Bnei Brak, last July. Says the writer: Views presented by the rabbi in a recent interview suggest that the gulf between haredi and mainstream Israeli society is widening rather than narrowing.

Confronting unprecedented change in the Haredi world - opinion

The question isn’t whether change will come – it’s already happening at the margins – but rather how deep it will penetrate into the core of haredi society.

 Illustrative: Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) Israeli Jews are seen engaging in Torah study.

Calling for destruction of Gaza’s population goes against Jewish values - opinion

We can simultaneously hold the truths that Hamas must be defeated decisively and that every civilian death in Gaza is a tragedy that diminishes the divine image in the world.

PALESTINIANS GATHER to receive food cooked by a charity kitchen, amid a hunger crisis in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip last week.

Israel’s Irish embassy closure: ‘Short-term gestures, long-term losses’ - opinion

Sa’ar and the current government would rather the immediate rush of populist applause at home than putting in the hard work to take the diplomatic fight to our partners abroad. 

IRELAND’S ‘TAOISEACH’ (Prime Minister) Simon Harris speaks to the media during Ireland’s general election, in Greystones, Ireland last month.

Trump’s pro-Israel team sparks debate on Middle East diplomacy - opinion

Annexation or diplomacy? Netanyahu must navigate Trump’s transactional approach to Israel.

 THEN-US PRESIDENT Donald Trump hosts Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as well as the foreign ministers of Bahrain (left) and the UAE, at the signing ceremony of the Abraham Accords on the South Lawn of the White House, September 15, 2020.

The Religious Zionist Party leadership: Neither religious, nor Zionist - opinion

There has been a disconnect between the reality of the religious Zionist community and their key politicians who protect the haredim from any sanctions over avoiding conscription.

 FINANCE MINISTER Bezalel Smotrich, head of the Religious Zionist Party, addresses the party’s parliamentary faction in the Knesset this week.

Jordan Peterson’s blind spot: His own rhetoric undercuts his message - opinion

His portrayal of Jews as the archetypal successful minority feeds into the very antisemitic tropes he claims to combat.

 A BOY, wearing a kippah, holds the British flag at a march against antisemitism in London last November.