Could Pharaoh be Irish? As we read this last month’s Torah portions, about the ancient idiosyncratic behavior of an Egyptian despot, we think such personalities can’t happen in our world, in our times. Well, a film with nine nominations for Oscar awards, admirably shows it can transpire in ordinary human behavior.
Read More »Column: Fearing A Collision Course Between Bibi and American Jews
When Eric Goldstein speaks, Benjamin Netanyahu must listen. Even more so than when others speak, such as U.S. Rep. Jerry Nadler, Israeli business executive Eynat Guez, 100,000-plus protesters in Tel Aviv and Israeli expats in New York and Los Angeles.
Read More »Letter: Liberated & Recaptured — NOT Captured
Notwithstanding how often a newspaper may write or a television commentator may say that Israel "captured" the "West Bank" and "East Jerusalem" in June 1967, it is not so.
Read More »Column: ‘Dream Job’ In Rural Michigan Becomes Nightmare for Jewish Educator
After nine days as dean of students at a middle school, Michael Woodberg resigned. The offense? Being Jewish.
Read More »Mar-A-Lago Is Not on The Way to Auschwitz
A new record may have just been set—for the most Hitler analogies in a 24-hour period.
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 »Letter: Jew Hatred: Louis Vuitton, Vichy & Bella Hadid
When it comes to Jew hatred, one can draw a direct line from Louis Vuitton and Vichy to Louis Vuitton and Bella Hadid.
Read More »Letter: Time for God
"When I'm davening I'm talking to Hashem, not looking at the clock."
Read More »A Harvard President’s Pogrom Warning
If American Jews “decide to remain apart,” antisemitism will rise to the point that “blood will be spilled,” one of America’s most prominent educators reportedly warned, one hundred years ago.
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 »Letter: Sorry, Whoopi: The Holocaust Was All About Race
On two recent occasions, Whoopi Goldberg, a celebrity with a very high profile platform called "The View," has promulgated the ahistorical fantasy that the Holocaust of six million Jews had absolutely nothing to do with race.
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 »Letter: Response to Open Letter from 330 Rabbis
The true affront to the vast majority of American Jews and “our values” is that, like anti-Zionist Berkeley Law student groups, we now have 330 rabbis pledging not to invite any speakers whose views they oppose.
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 »Letter: The Antisemitic Fallacy of “Israel Apartheid”
At "progressive" cocktail parties, at "mideast studies programs" across America and among mainstream media "mideast experts," the phrase "Israel apartheid" is always applauded.
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 »Letter: The Islamic Antisemitic Dumbing Down of American Higher Education
Earlier this year the Harvard Crimson enthusiastically supported Omar Barghouti's antisemitic genocidal BDS movement.
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 »Letter: Spinning Off Into Madness…
But why, what possible reason could Trump have had for allowing lunatic antisemite Kanye West to visit him after all of West’s frightening hate was made public, despite it intentionally being relegated to Tucker Carlson’s cutting room floor?
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 »What Is So Odd About Getting Even?
The 2022 Boulder Jewish Festival Film series, highlights several Holocaust related movies. One of the most prominent is "Plan A," the true story of attempted revenge on the Nazis by some Jewish groups. This article discusses some of the complex issues brought up by this film.
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