Whoever Saves a Life Saves the World
Eighty years ago this week, the United Kingdom engaged in one of the few rescue efforts of Jews from the clutches of Nazi Germany. Called the “kindertransport,” the rescue involved the relocation of...
View ArticleThe Cowardice of American Jewish Academia – Temple University Edition
Twenty blocks north of my office in Center City Philadelphia lies Temple University, one of the finest and most prestigious public colleges in the United States. In recent years, one of Temple’s best...
View ArticleMy Mother’s Letter
This coming Shabbat is my father’s Yahrtzeit. For the 37th time, I will say Kaddish for a man who died much too young. This one, however, will be different. For the first time, I will recite both for...
View ArticleBereshit From the Moon
Fifty years ago today, Apollo 8 was entering orbit around the moon. No human ever had ventured so far, and no space mission ever had captivated the world as did Apollo 8. On Christmas Eve 1968, the...
View ArticleRemember Who We Are and Who They Are
Less than an hour after Robert Bowers murdered 11 people at the Etz Chaim Synagogue in Pittsburgh in October, Jewish doctors helped save his life. It’s possible that the doctors and nurses at...
View ArticleJoe Biden and the Diminution of American Politics
In October 1972, our family moved from the Philadelphia area to Auburn, New York, a small city Upstate in the remarkably beautiful Finger Lakes Region. Two weeks after we relocated, America held its...
View ArticleCongresswoman Omar Confronts American History
Democrats in the United States House of Representatives spent this week trying to manage the fallout from the anti-Semitic remarks of Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar. By midweek they had been...
View ArticleThe Cowardice of American Jewish Academia — Emory University Edition
One morning in late March, Jewish students at Emory University in Atlanta awoke to find eviction notices placed on their dorm rooms doors. The notices contained the logo of Emory University and...
View ArticleNo Place to Stand
During one appalling weekend, the New York Times published a cartoon in its international edition dripping with anti-Semitism, while worshipers at a synagogue in Poway, California were attacked by a...
View ArticleJoe Biden – Elected For Who He Is Not, Now He Must Show What He Is
The most tragic day of Joe Biden’s life was December 18, 1972. Just six weeks after being elected as the new Senator from Delaware, and two weeks before taking the oath of office, Biden’s wife Suzy...
View ArticleThe Desecration of the Word ‘Amen’
To open the new session of Congress last week, Missouri Representative Emanuel Cleaver began with a prayer. At the end, the former Methodist pastor stated “Amen, and Awomen.” The uproar was immediate,...
View ArticleMartin Luther King, Robert Kennedy and modern cancel culture
These inspirational leaders, both flawed, and the greats who inspired them, would flunk today's PC criteria as worthy topics for academic study
View ArticleWhile Covid news dominates in Israel, energy pipeline news may be more important
Some of the most important news is recent Israeli history was made last week – yet very few people heard it. No, that critical news wasn’t the success of Israel’s vaccination program or the loosening...
View ArticleNow, about that Haifa port…
Commenting on United Nations efforts to force a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman Hua Chunying on Friday accused the Unites States of “standing on the opposite side...
View ArticleBiden Must Save His Presidency – Right Now
For the first seven months of his presidency, Joe Biden governed by ignoring contradictions. He urged American citizens to limit their personal travel and assembly due to Covid-19, ignoring the...
View ArticleFighting the Last War
Stuck in their trenches on the Western Front during World War I, each side’s generals, secure in the military knowledge gained from decades of study and experience, were convinced they had the answer...
View ArticleThe Rise of the Progressive Totalitarian
Unable to put an end to two weeks of anti-vaccine mandate protests by truckers, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday invoked the “Emergency Measures Act of 1988.” The first time this ever...
View ArticleWhen Tyranny Came to Canada
A piece of Canada died Monday night. This glorious land, so cold and massive, with people so hardy and freedom-loving, gave away a large part of its democracy that night. On Monday, tyranny came to...
View ArticleUkraine – Where Stalingrad Meets the Warsaw Ghetto
Nearly one week into Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, very few of Putin’s assumptions are proving true. Far from dropping their weapons and surrendering, Ukrainians are fighting fiercely. Their...
View ArticleUkraine and Palestine – The False Equivalence
Kim Iversen is a young American independent journalist who has dared take on the mainstream media. Together with such figures as Glenn Greenwald, Matt Taibi, Bari Weiss, Ryan Grim, Robbie Soave,...
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