Bruce S. Ticker
Ticker is a freelance writer based in Philadelphia. He may be contacted via bruce.ticker@sdjewishworld.com
Jewish vote provided majorities in battleground states
The Jewish stars aligned, politically speaking, on Nov. 3 and Jan. 5. A case can be made that the Jewish vote swung six statewide races to elect Joe Biden as president, hand Democrats control...
Bowman in for a congressional reality lesson
As he experiences his first week in Congress, Jamaal Bowman (D-New York) will start on a path to do everything he suggests that former Rep. Eliot L. Engel failed to do and perhaps even...
Anti-Squad Republicans Should Be Careful to Not Overreach
Rashida Tlaib’s mantra “From the river to the sea” may soon compete with “From the Narrows to the Potomac.” Or “Biscayne Bay to the Potomac.”
“From the River…” etc. is meant as the stretch of...
Free Exercise of Religion vs. Promoting the General Welfare
It all comes down to “promote the general welfare” vs. “the free exercise…of religion.”
On Nov. 8, Satmar Grand Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum more than freely exercised his religious traditions by hosting a family wedding in...
What’s better paying in P.A? Nursing or terrorism?
In case you ever doubted it, Palestinians have the same conflict over career paths as you and I.
Young Americans must choose between accepting a steady and lucrative if humdrum job or chasing a stimulating...
Hate crimes, growing in number, still are underreported
Living in central Pennsylvania during the 1980’s opened my eyes about anti-Semitism, an attitude so deeply entrenched there that I feared American Jewry could one day be targeted – like our forebears in Nazi...
Warnock’s antipathy to Israel could cost Dems the Senate
Democrats Jon Ossoff and the Rev. Raphael Warnock must navigate an obstacle course to convert voting figures so they can join the U.S. Senate on Jan. 5 and Jewish Georgians wary of “apartheid” phrasing...
The ‘Squad’ prevented Biden’s victory from being bigger
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC)’s Squad is proving to be more than a chink in the Democratic armor, most especially in Florida “North.”
That would be Florida “North” in political, ideological, Cuban -and especially Jewish – terms....
Pennsylvanians glory in their election role
It is almost all up to the surviving Pennsylvanians whose votes have yet to be counted. That means me.
My head swelled for awhile as Joe Biden, Donald Trump and their surrogates traversed Pennsylvania’s 46,000...
Haters on the right and left this political season
I can’t blame either congresswoman for fearing for their lives.
“Posting a photo with an assault rifle next to the faces of three women of color is…incitement,” tweets U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar. “There are already...