Bruce S. Ticker
Ticker is a freelance writer based in Philadelphia. He may be contacted via bruce.ticker@sdjewishworld.com
Jewish Year 5780 starts with bad news
As Yom Kippur drew to a close, I drove past a Modern Orthodox synagogue in Northeast Philadelphia and spotted a police van parked out front, a half-mile from my apartment.
Comforting that this shul was...
Impeachment unlikely to affect Democratic control of the House
The political direction of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, could signal how much impeachment will sway the 2020 election – which is not much. Yet the Jewish vote there will almost certainly sway the election in...
Fighting academic anti-Semitism
“Lofty” has long been a word that traditionally describes academia. Yet a more apt word, to be nice, is “bizarre” when an Asian leader fulminates about Jews at a respected university and a so-called...
Fighting anti-Semitism at local levels of government
Three decades ago, a young city councilman in central Pennsylvania encountered me in a laundromat and launched into a tirade against Israel.
He complained about Israel’s “oppression” of the Palestinians and recounted Israel’s unprovoked attack...
New York City adds an office to fight bias crimes
We will learn eventually if New York’s $1.7 million investment to contend with bias-related incidents will work, but the outbreak in attacks against Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn exposes ongoing drawbacks in the system.
Deborah Lauter,...
For Jews, Corbyn v. Johnson is like Omar v. Trump
Britain’s 300,000 Jews can soon face a horrible political choice: Boris Johnson vs. Jeremy Corbyn.
While most American Jews vote Democratic, most of our British brethren have for long voted for Labour Party candidates because...
Trump believes Jews can’t think for themselves
President Trump’s rebuke of Jewish “disloyalty” on Tuesday is disturbing on many levels, but primarily he was preaching to 5.7 million fellow Americans who he must think should be told what is best for...
![Ninety-year-old Muftia Tlaib and US congresswoman Rashida Tlaib [Twitter]](https://jewishwebsite.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/PicsArt_08-16-01.44.58-e1566059859984-324x235.jpg "Tlaib’s ‘grandma’ claim hypocritical")
Tlaib’s ‘grandma’ claim hypocritical
It’s curious that U.S. Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib would travel to a country – namely, Israel – that they suggest replicates Nazi Germany.
Of course, Israel is no Nazi Germany. No concentration camps,...
Trump, McConnell share blame for mass shootings
President Trump’s rhetoric that might have inspired killers like Patrick Crusius in El Paso and Connor Betts in Dayton, Ohio, last Saturday (Aug. 3) along with Mitch McConnell’s refusal to move gun control legislation,...
Lewis, Warren, and the New York Times pile on Israel
The ongoing anti-Jewish/anti-Israel movement is finding enablers in credible people and institutions in America. Namely, civil rights icon and U.S. Rep. John Lewis; Sen. Elizabeth Warren; and The New York Times.
The use of enablers is...