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.
Category Archives: Politics
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.
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.
SHUT DOWN!
Much of the “pro-Palestinian” (read: anti-Israel—and, more often than not, anti-Jew) activism has been angry, crass, disruptive and destructive.
And, at least in one recent case, counterproductive.
To read about it, click here.
Pro-Choice
It wasn’t very long ago that the idea of government funds helping parents who choose private religious schools for their children was anathema. That’s blessedly no longer the case. To read about what may lie on the horizon, please click here.
Scandal With CAIR
On a recent Friday night, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) held its “30th anniversary gala” in Washington, DC. Too bad you probably missed it.
Something the celebrants didn’t know was that some bad news (at least for them) lay on the horizon. To read what it was, please click here.
Wolves, Wolves Everywhere
With all the wacky wokey warriors spewing hatred for Israel and Jews on college campuses and city streets, one could be forgiven for not noticing the proliferation of anti-Semites on the other end of the political spectrum.
But they’re there, and, in a way, more threatening. You can read about some of them here.
A Chance for Parents to Opt for Religious Schools
A piece I wrote about the future of school choice is here.
Thank You, President Biden
In the maelstrom of what passes for political discourse these days, the Jewish imperative of hakaras hatov is too often missing in action. A piece I wrote about the outgoing administration is here.