Let’s start where all things really started with the monotheism of the Jews. In the words of Isaiah 43:21: “This people I fashioned for Myself that...
In Theodor Herzl’s path-setting Zionist book The Jewish State, the Torah is reduced to a “religion,” relegated to the home and the synagogue. Severed from Public...
Whether the Israel’s government is led by the Left or by the so-called Right, conventional right-wing critics of the Government find it easy to fault its...
Back in 2000 I wrote a piece, “Israel Needs Another Golda.” Remember the witticism about Golda, that she was the only man in Israel’s Cabinet? Well,...
Innumerable volumes have been written on anti-Semitism – meaning hatred of Jews and Judaism. It really started more than 3,000 years ago after the Sinai revelation....
The Oscar-winning actress Natalie Portman said that she would not use her platform of fame or share her strong leftist opinions inappropriately. So she granted an...
The ascendancy of Islam – please, no adjectives – is the punitive correction for the West’s rejection of the Creation narrative of the Book of Genesis,...
On 20 May, Prof. Paul Eidelberg of Bar-Ilian University described, in these pages, an especially annoying class of Israel critic. These LIERs (Libertarians, Internationalists, Egalitarians, and...
Who are the “LIERs”? The LIERs are a consortium of Libertarians, Internationalists, Egalitarians, and Relativists. These LIERs dominate the news and other opinion–making media.
The mission statement of the Central Reform Congregation avows community, diversity, and commitment for a vibrant, Jewish presence in their city, St. Louis, Missouri. But specific...