American Jewish identity, three years after the Tree of Life shooting
Three years ago today, we awoke to a world of our ancestors. In the breadth of Jewish history, the names Odessa, Warsaw, Kishinev, Kiev and Hebron represent the unspeakable barbarism many thought to have...
The ‘human rights’ scam at the heart of the NGO controversy
To listen to the U.S. State Department and many in the international human-rights community, Israel has done it again. The outrage over the decision by Defense Minister Benny Gantz to designate six Palestinian non-governmental organizations as...
The bigger picture behind the narrow Gantz-NGO controversy
When Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz announced on Friday that he is listing six Palestinian NGOs as terrorist groups, all hell broke loose on the left. The outcry, which emanated not only from Washington and Brussels,...
Respecting the Torah vs. respecting the Constitution
“God who gave us life gave us liberty … Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that...
To Prevent a Nuclear War: America’s Overriding Policy Imperative
Abstract: Though current US defense policy centers on matters of conventional war and terrorism, other problems remain more existentially worrisome. Most conspicuous in this regard are variously intersecting issues of nuclear war avoidance. The following article examines...
German anti-Semitism, real and perceived
There were more than 2,000 reported anti-Semitic incidents in Germany in 2020 and just under 2,000 the previous year. That’s around or five or six incidents, some of them involving violence or verbal abuse,...
Intimidation of Jewish College Students on the Increase
As yet more evidence that Jewish students have continued to be targets of bias on university campuses, a Spring 2021 poll by the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, together with...
Who Abuses the “Beautiful Game”
WC Directors for International Relations and for Latin America
Diego Maradona was aware that his private life was not exemplary. In addition to being one of the best soccer players in history, he was also...
How Our Focus On Appearance Today Trivializes Us
When we hear the word “appearance”, normally the first association that comes to our minds is personal appearance. How do I look today? Are my clothes neat and clean and fashionable? Is my hair...
The baleful consequences of failing to deal with Islamist extremism
On both sides of the English Channel, the failure to grasp the nettle of Islamist extremism and the frightening consequences of that failure are sounding an urgent alarm for the whole of Western society.
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