Trump’s advice for ‘a good Jewish character’
PHILADELPHIA — We should thank Donald J. Trump for helping Israel, but he has done far more for Jews there than he has ever done for most American Jews.
In the process, his recent pronouncements...
Parashat Noach: Seeking Out Righteousness Over Arrogance
SAN DIEGO — In the whole of the Torah, there are only six portions that are named after an individual. Don’t look for parasha Avraham or Moshe. But we do have the Noach Ish Tzaddik Tamim...
Nikki Haley: Antisemitism Must Be Flagged at Every Instance
TORONTO, Canada (Press Release) — Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley told the Canadian Friends of Jerusalem College of Technology (CFJCT) 50th anniversary gala dinner that antisemitism needs to be called...
Story Book Interprets the Jonah Tale for Children
Jonah by Tammar Stein, illustrations by Sabina Hahn; Agawam, Massachusetts: PJ Publishing © 2021; Library of Congress Control Number 2021950838, 28 pages, $8.99.
SAN DIEGO – Who can resist adding a little bit here or there...
The World is a Mess as Israel’s Election Approaches
JERUSALEM — The world seems to be in a mess.
Where to start?
Israel’s election is in a bit more than a week. The parties are maneuvering. We aren’t sure who’s going to be aligned with...
What the ‘No-Go Zones’ for Jews at Berkeley Law School Reveal About Pro-Palestinian Activism
When Law Students for Justice in Palestine (LSJP) at University of California, Berkeley, School of Law promoted a bylaw that would create what critics have characterized as “no-go zones for Jews,” it may not...
The Folk Composer
HAIFA, Israel — Tragedies often have a comic origin. This affair started out as being amusing and pleasurable, as well as uplifting, life-affirming and optimistic.
It is August 25, 1917 Berlin. The premier of the...
New Orleans: The City That Revives
It just so happens that I am traveling to New Orleans this week, a city that exemplifies many of the ideas I put forward in my column every week. I often discuss the importance...
What’s Israel Got to Do, Got to Do with Sexism and Homophobia?
PHILADELPHIA — Perhaps these students had not advanced far enough in law school to recognize that the murder of women and gays is, well, murder.
Otherwise, the Women of Berkeley Law would most certainly have...
The Folk Writer
HAIFA, Israel — From 1843 to 1854 the literature of Germany, a country which had been fragmented into 36 states, began to produce unifying folk tales in which the German nation began to crystallize.
The...