The Corbyns of this world
NETANYA, Israel — Jeremy Corbyn represents the shameful, sneaky, face of anti-Semitism. The one that accepts Jews who subscribe to his radical brand of politics, the ones who will play by his rules.
He’ll probably...
U.S. government supports the terrorists, and not the victims, in lawsuit
Victims of international terrorism suffered a terrible blow this week when the United States Supreme Court declined to hear Sokolow v. Palestine Liberation Organization, a case brought by American citizens killed or injured in terrorist...
Houston, we’ve got your back!
As a child, I remember hearing the story of Noah in Hebrew school. In a class of 5-year-olds, we drew pictures of animals walking into the ark two-by-two in an orderly fashion. And I...
Humoring the headlines
SAN DIEGO−President Trump plans to send the National Guard to patrol the Southern border. If that works out, he will deploy the Navy to blockade the Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific Coasts. The ships will...
Bibi zig-zags on African refugees
JERUSALEM — Amotz Aza-El, a respected Israeli journalist, writing in Thursday’s Jerusalem Post has compared the current prime minister of Israel to the biblical Aaron, the brother of Moses, who yielded to popular demand and built...
Harvard’s Jewish students flunk ‘Israeli History 101’
Radical Jewish students at Harvard University are planning to hold a late “Liberation Seder” to “protest the continuing occupation by Israel.”
On Thursday, April 5—six days after all other Jews around the world held their...
Bayard Rustin (1912 – 1987)
One of the most important leaders of the Civil Rights Movement, Bayard Rustin was a consistent advocate for Israel and a determined opponent of anti-Semitism.
Born in West Chester, Pennsylvania, Rustin moved to Harlem in...
Donald Trump and the Cry of the Crowd
“The crowd,” observed the 19th-century Danish philosopher Sören Kierkegaard, “is untruth.”
In these United States, nothing could possibly be more apparent or confirmative. Here, the presidency of Donald Trump — the most starkly injurious result of...
Lynn and Charles Schusterman (1935–2000)
The great medieval sage Maimonides noted the importance of both the “welfare of the soul” and the “welfare of the body.” Though spiritual matters were ultimately on a higher plane, the spirit could not...
James Angleton (1917–1987)
James Jesus Angleton, was born in 1917 in Boise, Idaho, and served in the CIA for more than 30 years, since its inception in 1947.
Maintaining the rank of counter-intelligence chief for more than two...