Bruce S. Ticker
Ticker is a freelance writer based in Philadelphia. He may be contacted via bruce.ticker@sdjewishworld.com
No Shortage of Ill-Informed Israel Bashers
American Jews cannot avoid hearing from grossly ill-informed Israel-bashers, most notably those who masquerade as being loftier than thou. Four items in recent weeks stand out.
Among those who distorted Israel’s role in the Covid-19...
After Pittsburgh and Atlanta, Senate Rules Still Threaten Gun-Control Bills
It is a relief to learn that the nearly 10 million Americans who live in Arizona, Montana and West Virginia feel safe from gun violence.
Three Democratic senators from these states will not take all...
With New COVID Critique, How Would Palestinian Leaders Govern Their Own State?
The Palestinian leadership is supplying SNL’s Michael Che with unexpected material for his Covid-19 vaccine punchlines.
The Palestinian Authority, which administers limited public services in Israel’s territories, is now accused by its own people of...
NY Times Refers to ‘Palestine’ as a Country
A single word jumped out at me from this headline in Saturday’s New York Times: “A D.J.’s Set Outside a Mosque Spurs a Debate on Palestine’s Cultural Identity.”
Guess which word. As Robert Preston in The Music...
Lowell, Mass., Knows Better Than NYC How to Respond to Antisemitism
The city of Lowell, Massachusetts., did it right confronting anti-Semitism. It was not so right when Manhattan dealt with distortions on Israel.
Thirty miles north of Boston, a school board member uttered an anti-Jewish slur...
Murder at Capitol Hill?
Four decades ago, when she was president of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, Dianne Feinstein stumbled onto a crime scene down the hall from her City Hall office. She discovered the body of...
Arab Villages Not “Burning Down” As House Dems May Be Burning Bridges
Didn’t you know? “They can’t be burning down Palestinian villages.”
Rep. Ro Khanna did not know it either, but he uttered those words anyway in an interview last Friday with MSNBC in noting that President...
Anti-Semitism Watch: A Pox on Both Parties
There are frightening people on both sides, to paraphrase a former president.
U.S. Representatives Marjorie Taylor Greene and Rashida Tlaib – each crazy in their own ways – deserve each other. None of us deserve...
Ossoff and Schumer Launch Us Into New Era
Three senators, two of them Jewish, can be credited with launching America into a new political era.
Five hours after Joe Biden was sworn in as our 46 th president on Jan. 20, Jon Ossoff and the...
The Capitol Raid: Shattering a Jewish Refuge
When Rabbi Jordan Hersh’s grandfather, Joseph Goldstein, lived in Poland, thugs there picked Easter to beat up Jews. Our own fellow citizens chose the day for the presidential election certification to rampage our Capitol...