After nine days as dean of students at a middle school, Michael Woodberg resigned. The offense? Being Jewish.
Read More »Column: Our First ‘Jew-ish’ Congressman: How Perilous Is He?
Our very first “Jew-ish” congressman established himself as a serial liar, a possible criminal suspect and a punchline. Until Tuesday. Now it is far worse: George Santos is scary, and maybe dangerous.
Read More »Column: Ben-Gvir’s Presumed ‘Act of War’
It was the devil…er, Itamar Ben-Gvir…who made me do it.
Read More »Column: If Justice, Justice Is Not Pursued In Israel
Team Bibi’s plans to transform Israel’s legal system boils down to a perversion of our most basic biblical teachings. They will forsake justice to feed their political appetites.
Read More »Column: Memo to GOP: Shine Glaring Spotlight on Omar, Tlaib and Company
Nearly four years ago, Liz Cheney and 22 other Republicans voted against a motherhood, apple pie-style resolution in the U.S. House of Representatives denouncing antisemitism, Islamophobia, sexism, racism, homophobia and all other forms of bias.
Read More »Column: Palestinians Dread What They Have Wrought
Most American Jews and possibly almost half the Israeli electorate would concur with my neighboring diners that Ben-Gvir and Smotrich could be disasters waiting to happen. I do not sympathize with those diners or Palestinians as a society, though I certainly fear for peaceful, rational Arabs caught in the middle.
Read More »Column: Outreach or “Pod Squads”? Breaking Down Bias on The Left and The Right
Top federal officials and Jewish leaders spoke to each other, and together they spoke to the public at large, the public that reads newspapers, watches television news programs and listens to those who run our government. But they did not speak to the people that count.
Read More »Column: ‘Complicity’ With Antisemites Is Bipartisan
The Three Stooges of Mar-a-Lago launched a hate-fest that is hardly the first that is directed at Jews. Nor are Republicans alone in enabling antisemitism in America. Democrats have been restrained in responding to antisemites in their own ranks and advocacy groups have failed to deter antisemites and other bigots.
Read More »Column: Jerusalem Bombings: ‘Collective Punishment’ Against Jews
The morning before Thanksgiving, the Schupaks could not escape the enmity toward Jews when Aryeh was murdered in the first of two bus stop bombings in Jerusalem.
Read More »Column: Deep in the Heartlessness of Texas: Is Abortion Law an Antisemitic Plot?
Jewish Texans, estimated to number 176,000, should probably worry about the deep in the heartlessness of the Texas abortion law - with the reporting of Amanda Eid’s near-death experience.
Read More »Column: Road to the Jewish White House
Jared Polis, Joshua Shapiro and Lee Zeldin ended the day, on Tuesday, Nov. 8, able to claim vast political accomplishments. All three can be credited with consolidating or augmenting power in their states for their respective political parties.
Read More »Column: Two Perilous Forces in Israel
No question that American Jews should be anxious about the future of an Israel in Bibi’s hands. There will likely be two prime forces at work that can intensify the conflict with the Palestinians.
Read More »Column: Republicans ‘Christian’ Down Jews in Election Campaigns
This week, Bruce Ticker recaps some of the Republican antisemitic incidents taking place around the country as we approach the 2022 midterm elections.
Read More »Column: Trump’s Advice for ‘a Good Jewish Character’
Trump's recent pronouncements have reopened the question of dual loyalty – that Jews here must ignore the everyday needs of their fellow Americans and, for that matter, themselves, while exerting all their energy and go What else could these words mean? “U.S. Jews have to get their act together and appreciate what they have in Israel – before it is too late!”
Read More »Column: What’s Israel Got to Do, Got to Do with Sexism and Homophobia?
Perhaps these students had not advanced far enough in law school to recognize that the murder of women and gays is, well, murder.
Read More »Column: The Anti-Israel Wall Can Crumble
It is astounding how Israel’s foes have assembled an immense if bulky movement in America and Canada to advocate for the Palestinian cause.
Read More »Column: Gun-Violence Accomplices, in Congress?
Nearly four years after 11 congregants were slain at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, Dr. Mehmet Oz is demonizing his Pennsylvania Senate rival from nearby Braddock for seeking the release of more convicts from prison. In the process, Oz unwittingly triggers thoughts of an advanced approach to confronting gun violence.
Read More »Column: Anti-Zionism, Antisemitism
A Detroit congresswoman, an Australian student editor and a sex-abuse survivor from Vermont escape from a sanatorium and regale us with stories cementing their standing as antisemites.
Read More »Column: Josh Shapiro’s Jewish ‘Privilege’ at Issue in PA Governor’s Race
It is no wonder that Doug Mastriano assailed a prominent Jewish day school attended by his rival for the Pennsylvania governor’s office. How else can he possibly woo antisemitic voters?
Read More »Column: ‘Sitting Duck’ Distorts Her Anti-Israel Distortions
Natalie Abulhawa had multiple advantages going for her after she filed a discrimination complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission against a Main Line school: her own disingenuous voice, the aid and comfort of excuse-laden Arab-American spokespersons; and kid-glove treatment in a Philadelphia Inquirer story filed by an Arab-simpatico reporter.
Read More »Column: Who Are the War Criminals?
We must wonder what Lina Abu Akleh refers to when she charges: “We don’t expect war criminals to investigate their own crimes.”
Read More »Column: Anti-Jewish Harassment: No Excuse for a Student’s Trauma
It should surprise us that a Jewish student at Altadena Middle School located in the southern tip of Phoenix experienced trauma for a longer period than she should have. Of course, she should never have experienced any of it, but school officials allegedly allowed the situation to persist.
Read More »Column: Trump Scares Judge’s Synagogue from a Day…Er, An Evening…At The Beach
Congregants at Temple Beth David in Palm Beach Gardens sacrificed their freedom of religion last Friday because of a Florida neighbor’s bid to escape justice – one of two antisemitic episodes fueled by Republicans last week.
Read More »Column: Of Omar’s Close Call…
Ilhan Omar will almost certainly return to Congress in January, but she barely broke 50 percent in Tuesday’s Democratic primary that allows her to move on to general election on Nov. 8. Her rival, Don Samuels, mused in The New York Times, after conceding, “If this was the general election, no doubt that we would have won this race.”
Read More »Column: When An Antisemitic Offender or Their Protector Plays Hardball…
With apologies to Kal Mann and David Appell, late co-writers of the popular 1961 “Bristol Stomp” song….
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