AIPAC Missing Rubio: The End of the ‘Good for Israel’ Neocons
Once plastered across the home page of Marco Rubio’s campaign (RIP) website is the question, ‘Are You Ready for a New American Century?’
Rubio, the first-term senator from Florida, was running in the 2016 Republican...
Adelson Is Right About Trump’s pro-Israel Credentials
Michael Steinhardt’s secretary called me one morning in December with a question. Did I know how to get in touch with Donald Trump? Why, I asked, does Michael want to get in touch with...
Stand Up to Trump: Not for AIPAC, Not for the Jews, but for Something...
When Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump takes the podium at next week’s AIPAC Policy Conference, we plan on walking out, joined by hundreds of other rabbis and conference participants.
This protest, which we both helped...
Protesting Bigots and Demagogues at AIPAC? Don’t Stop at Trump. Call Out Netanyahu Too
Many American Jews are angered at the prospect of Donald Trump addressing the AIPAC policy conference in Washington this coming week and are promising to abstain from attending, walk out of the hall or protest...
When Making Toys Becomes Child’s Play
More and more of the technological processes we produce today seem like magic. We produce machines that have more and more defined discrete parts: both mechanical pieces as well as digital components that...
Why Anguish Over AIPAC’s Invitation to Donald Trump Is Misplaced
If there were any doubts about the propriety of the invitation extended to Donald Trump to address the annual Washington policy conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the results of the March...
Pew Study of Israel Shows a Nation Fractured Into ‘Tribes’ — Big Split With...
Even though Peter Jaffe had never been to Israel, the Maryland lawyer felt a kinship with the people there, imagining a nation state full of “New York Jews.” That changed as soon as he...
For Israelis, Donald Trump is U.S. history’s most ‘Israeli’ presidential candidate
This presidential election season is nothing if not fascinating, and the media coverage itself is driving considerable debate. What’s also interesting, but has so far gone unexplored, is how Israeli media are covering the...
When A Video Game Comes To Life
For those of you who have been hooked on the Super Mario video games, artificial intelligence has created a new twist. In an article in gizmag.com – “ ‘Social Al’ lets Mario, Luigi,...
Love the Stranger: How Canadian synagogues started sponsoring Syrian refugees
It was the photo that finally brought home the true horror of the Syrian refugee crisis: 3-year-old Alan Kurdi, lying face down on a Turkish beach, arms at his side, waves lapping around his...