My prior two installments in this series are here and here. I urge you to read them for background and context. Because of political correctness, one of the glaring causes of the current campus student riots may not be spoken. We all see…
WASHINGTON — The Columbia University Apartheid Divest coalition issued five demands: that Columbia divest assets that benefit from “Israeli apartheid, genocide and occupation in Palestine”; sever relations with Israeli universities; end “land grabs” whether in Harlem or Palestine; defund campus…
Rapper Macklemore, who owns two Billboard Hot 100 chart toppers along with collaborator Ryan Lewis, just released a song in solidarity with the Palestinians and their well-wishers on American college campuses. He calls it “Hind’s Hall,” the name activists at…
What you’ve heard a great deal of lately has to do with the supposed elite college campuses, the Columbias, UCLAs, Northwesterns, and even NYUs, wherein radical leftists (some of whom are actual college students; most are not) have shut down…
The glorious eight-day festival of Pesach (Passover) ended Tuesday night. It coincided with the end of a challenging four-week recovery period from a surgery that was followed by severe post-op complications. I am 80 percent recovered, and I finally now…
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s ill-fated 2024 presidential campaign was much criticized for being “too online.” But Democrats are no less prone to fall into that same trap. Now-Vice President Kamala Harris’s 2020 presidential campaign, which generated considerable initial buzz before…
This article is adapted from Baruch Apisdorf’s remarks at a Soldiers Save Lives (SSL) fundraiser in Manhattan earlier this month. These past six months have been the hardest six months of my life. I always thought that I was in…
The redbuds and dogwoods in our neighborhood are in full bloom, and while we’ve had something of a wet, cold spring thus far, one can see the signs all around. Before you know it, summer will be here, with picnics,…
I never thought that I would be spending Passover in Japan. The idea was always, “Next year in Jerusalem” not Tokyo, but here I am. Several currents conspired to bring me here with a few other members of my family….
