Easy as it is for many of us to be uninterested in schools to which we don’t send our young, there are times when disquiet, even alarm, may be warranted.
Like now. Because of a case before the US Supreme Court . Which you can read about here.
Category Archives: News
Pyramid Scheme
I have a suggestion for something President Trump might want to bring up during negotiations with Iran. It was inspired by a new report about what the Egyptian government owes the families of Jews who were forced to leave Egypt during the 20th century. You can read about it here.
Deporting Students Won’t Stop Antisemitism
A piece I wrote about the administration’s couching of its fight against campus radicals as being a fight against antisemitism can be read here.
Courage and Carnage in Gaza
Whether the anti-Hamas protests that have taken place, and put down, in Gaza herald any future larger revolution against the terrorist regime can’t be known. But Hamas’ evil is evident as always, and some Americans need to wake up to it, as you can read here.
Silenced Voices
President Trump’s executive order to dismantle the US Agency for Global Media, which oversees American independent news outlets like Voice of America, was greeted with cheers in some circles. In others, not so much.
To read about the issue, please click here.
Nasty Blast from the Past
My most recent Ami Magazine piece can be read here.
“No Such Thing as a Palestinian?”
A rumination on the meaning of “Palestinian” can be read here.
Are government moves on Columbia a crackdown on hate or free speech?
An opinion column I wrote for the Boston Globe appeared on March 21 and can be read here.
A DELICATE DANCE
No matter our desire to embrace a country or leader as a truly reliable friend, we all — especially we Jews — do well to remember that there may not be any such thing, a truism about which Chazal warned us millennia ago.
To read what evoked that thought, please click here.
As We Prepare to Welcome Adar…
Last Thursday, explosives destroyed three buses in Israel – empty ones. Yesterday, Nael Obeid, a notorious Hamas terrorist who was freed in a hostage exchange, fell to his death in East Jerusalem. As we prepare to welcome Adar, we pray for Hashem’s continued protection.