Bruce S. Ticker
Ticker is a freelance writer based in Philadelphia. He may be contacted via bruce.ticker@sdjewishworld.com
Are there enough hospital beds for Covid-19 and gun victims?
Baltimore Mayor Jack Young sounded a curious plea this past Wednesday: “We cannot clog our hospitals and their beds with people that are being shot senselessly because we’re going to need those beds for...
Biden’s victories reassure Jews worried about Sanders
Maybe now the threat of anti-Semitism – government-sanctioned anti-Semitism, to be specific – could be slackening with Bernie Sanders’s slackening presidential campaign.
American Jews feared that a Bernie Sanders presidency would intensify the anti-Semitic movement...
AIPAC should take a gentler approach toward Israel’s critics
Hatikvah, as Israel’s national anthem, stirs tender emotions among us whenever it is played, but for others it is a provocation. Likewise, a $225 million expenditure is seen as worth the price to defend...
Sanders has short coattails, if any at all
Possibly our first Jewish president, and already Americans are panicking.
This sigh of relief: Democratic leaders and others are raising concerns about an overreaching agenda and a misguided approach to Israel, not over his religion...
Deicide libel against Jews surfaces in Nova Scotia
Someone finally did it – publicly blaming the Jewish people for the crucifixion of Jesus and, even more disgracefully, applying this libel to explain Israel’s so-called occupation of the Palestinian territories.
Henry M. Bradford’s words...
Alexander Vindman unfairly treated, like Dreyfus
He is a Jewish military officer, from a disputed foreign territory, wrongly accused, publicly disgraced, banished across an open body of water, and abandoned to an isolated location.
No, not Alfred Dreyfus, the French officer...
Gun laws, not more prosecution of slapper, needed
Roughly 20 American Jews were murdered through gun violence since March 1, 1994, in shooting sprees linked to Jewish-related situations – at two synagogues, public schools in Florida and Connecticut, a Jewish charity office...
Sanders could hurt down-ballot Democrats
“Danger! Danger! Danger!” Jay Sekulow crowed at least three times on Tuesday as he defended President Trump over the impact of his impeachment trial.
The president’s personal attorney could also have been warning Democrats of...
There are tools for fighting the anti-Semites
A time span of 70 years or so: For my father it was Passover, for Nicholas Bogan, it is Rosh Hashanah.
A few years after my father served in the army during World War II,...
Why I won’t vote for Biden, Sanders or Warren
Two policy positions should disqualify any candidate for president – casting a vote to invade Iraq or distorting Israel’s role in its struggle with the Palestinians.
That would eliminate former Vice President Joe Biden and...