Shmuel Klatzkin
Identity politics — something we love to hate. And with good reason. But why? What’s the problem with identity? Identity…
In a press release from May of this year, the Carter Center wrote: The nonpartisan 2005 Commission on Federal Election…
Democracies have taken great pains to separate religion and the workings of law and politics. And surely, the intimacy of…
Winston Churchill suffered his share of severe political defeat. More than once, he managed to recoup his strength and return…
Most of us are most comfortable when things are under our control. We like using the skills and powers with…
My father-in-law of blessed memory taught Talmud and Rabbinics in Berlin until 1940. He was there as Germany’s Jewish community…
The year I began my rabbinic studies in Jerusalem, a full-fledged war broke out on Yom Kippur. My fellow students…
After declaring that all are endowed by nature and God with inalienable rights, the most important of which are the…
Elmer Wheeler, who billed himself as the World’s Greatest Salesman, used to teach, “Don’t sell the steak, sell the sizzle.”…
This is a brutal political season. In fact, it is getting hard to remember one that wasn’t. But what is…
