Israel under the knife
“The streets are empty, even the main pedestrian walkways are empty,” my friend Selwyn Gerber told me on the phone from Jerusalem.Related Entries October 28, 2015 Complicated politics at World Zionist...
View ArticleTerror is not evenhanded
There are certain things I read that upset me but also put me right to sleep. One of them is any official statement that is mind-numbingly safe and politically correct.Related Entries October 28, 2015...
View ArticleWhy I love Lucy
Remember the name Subhi Al-Yaziji, dean of Quranic Studies at the Islamic University of Gaza. As Arab terrorists were attacking Jews in Israel last week, Al-Yaziji went on Palestinian television to...
View ArticleSitting shivah for Grantland
Human beings get attached to all kinds of things. We have our favorite cafes, our favorite parks, our favorite shows, our favorite people.Related Entries November 10, 2015 Israel looks to the United...
View ArticleCan Open Orthodoxy help revive Judaism?
There are two ways to look at the controversy raging in the Orthodox world right now over a fledgling movement that calls itself “Open Orthodoxy.”Related Entries November 10, 2015 A view from the...
View ArticleEurope should label terrorists, not tomatoes
On Nov. 11, while Islamic terrorists were preparing for their Friday night massacre in Paris that would leave 129 people dead and 352 injured, one of the big news items was the European initiative to...
View ArticleUFO’s attack ISIS: New peace talks begin
At first, ISIS commanders in Syria assumed the weird-looking jets came from America, the Great Satan.Related Entries November 20, 2015 This is not my America. Is it yours? November 20, 2015 ADL...
View ArticleWhere is the Muslim shame?
If it were Jews who had massacred people in Paris last Friday night, I would be drowning in shame right now. I would be writing about that shame. I would be shaming my murderous Jewish brethren for...
View ArticleWhy are we abandoning the Christians?
In all the self-righteous talk we’ve been hearing about Muslim refugees from Syria, who’s talking about the Christians? Over the past several years, no religious group has been more persecuted...
View ArticleWhat’s a dollar a month worth?
People love the Jewish Journal. They love picking it up, at a shul or deli or cafe or market, and flipping through the stories of the Jewish world.Related Entries November 24, 2015 Partition,...
View ArticleHow to destroy your Thanksgiving dinner
One of the most obnoxious things I’ve read this year is a piece in Vox titled, “How to Survive Your Family’s Thanksgiving Arguments.”Related Entries November 26, 2015 Lone soldiers from North America...
View ArticleThe longest war
No matter how many wars we fight and how many precautions we take, as long as enough people believe they are killing in the name of God, the war against Islamic terror will continue.Related Entries...
View ArticleThe One-Second Intifada
There are different kinds of fears. Some fears are specific -- you can stumble into a dangerous neighborhood, receive a bad diagnosis from a doctor or get caught up in a legal battle. Remove the...
View ArticleHier and Hier: From yeshiva boy to global storyteller
The longer I live in America, the more fascinated I become with the story of American Jewry — how a wandering and persecuted people discovered a free and open nation and have given so much back.Related...
View ArticleHomeless in Koreatown
You can’t knock on a tent, so I had to yell. I wanted to meet the people inside the tent and hear their story.Related Entries January 7, 2016 #myLAcommute Aquafaba is magical January 7, 2016 How to get...
View ArticleWhat if I’m wrong?
It’s so comfortable to be right that we rarely ask ourselves whether we’re wrong.Related Entries January 6, 2016 Our history of projection: Parashat Va’era (Exodus 6:2-9:35) December 30, 2015 Moving...
View ArticleBranding Conservative Judaism
In the marketing world, being “in the middle” can be a curse, because it’s too easy for people to perceive that middle as wishy-washy.Related Entries February 3, 2016 Audit to shed light on...
View ArticleCalling out anti-Semitism
If you discriminate against the only Jewish country in the world, is that anti-Semitism?Related Entries February 8, 2016 Anti-Semitism a ‘recurrent problem’ in Dutch schools, gov’t report says February...
View ArticleThe lure of Trump: No more rip-offs
You can’t begin to understand the Donald Trump phenomenon until you recognize that there’s a large number of Americans who are sick and tired of seeing their country get ripped off.
View ArticleChaim being Chaim
My friend Rabbi Chaim Seidler-Feller is a nutty-professor type who is impossible to describe. One reason is that he has a mix of traits that don’t usually go together.Related Entries January 27, 2016...
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