Steve Kramer
Kramer is a freelance writer based in Kfar Sava. He may be contacted via [email protected]
Book Review: ‘The Taming of the Jew’
Tuvia Tenenbom is an expat Israeli who has lived in Germany and elsewhere for many decades, working as a journalist and author. Holding many academic degrees, Tenenbom is also a playwright, essayist, and the founding artistic...
Many benefits to Israel-UAE agreement
It’s “early days,” but the surprise “Abraham Accord” announced by Washington has been a stunner. Against all odds, nothing leaked from any of the governments involved: Israel, the United Arab Emirates (Emirates or UAE),...
In reply to 140 U.S. Jewish leaders
What if American Jews read on the front pages of The New York Times and the Washington Post that Israeli Jews would estrange themselves from American Jews, if the latter chose to vote for a president who was...
Passover, the pandemic, and globalization
Why is this Passover different from all other Passovers, to paraphrase the Haggadah? This year, because of the pandemic, we must celebrate it alone, apart from our friends or family. But the impact of...
On those reactions critical of Trump’s Executive Order
The BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) movement began on North American college campuses during the previous administration. It’s just one of a number of campus campaigns aimed against Israel and Jewish students (others include...
New Mexico’s Crypto-Jews subject of informative tour
When Jordi was just ten years old, his grandfather said, “This is how we butcher a chicken,” as he demonstrated the kosher slaughtering method. Jordi’s grandfather thereby revealed that the family was Jewish, a...
An Independence Day tour of Israel
Just 71 years ago, Israel declared its independence based on several factors:
*God promised the Land of Israel to the Jews in the Bible – echoed in the Christian Bible and even (gasp!) in the...
![Gigi Ibrahim from Cairo, Egypt [CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)]](https://jewishwebsite.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Down_with_Israel_rally_in_Cairo-324x235.jpg "The four sources of Jew hatred")
The four sources of Jew hatred
“The term anti-Semitism was coined in 1879 by the German agitator Wilhelm Marr to designate the anti-Jewish campaigns under way in central Europe at that time. Although the term now has wide currency,...
America’s major media is biased against Israel
Too many American Jews are ignorant about what’s really going on in Israel. They think they are better equipped to determine Israel’s fate than Israelis are. I know where that comes from: “fake news”...
Capsule history of the Golan Heights
Long before the mid-7th century CE Muslim/Arab Conquest of the eastern Mediterranean coast, known as the Levant, the Jews inhabited the area known today as the Golan Heights. Modern-day Ramat ha Golan (Golan Heights...