Thursday night’s news told of a Hamas plot to attack Jewish communities throughout Europe. Hamas’ covenant has for years made clear that Jews, wherever they are, are their enemies. So, in the light of the horrors of Hamas’ Oct. 7…
When I was a cute, sweet little boy back in 1960s Brooklyn, every Friday night after family Shabbat dinner I would lie on the floor in our living room. My dad would be lying right there, nearby on a couch,…
I arrived in Israel early in the morning, and, shortly after dropping my things off at my cousin’s house, we headed for a gathering in front of the Knesset of families who had members either murdered or kidnapped on 10/7….
We know from history that Jew-hatred, the world’s oldest and once again most fashionable form of bigotry, is the chameleon of all hates — forever taking on new hues to suit the scapegoating needs of the day. It has always…
For almost all of my life, I have been humbly, on my knees, grateful to be a Jew in America. After 6,000 years of persecution and murder in Europe, the United States of America beckoned as the ultimate refuge for…
How can American Jews signal their revulsion with the Left’s growing anti-Semitism? Starting today: Stop voting Democrat. Intellectual Milton Himmelfarb once quipped that “Jews earn like Episcopalians but vote like Puerto Ricans.” Jews should know better. Although they tend to be educated and affluent, Jews…
In the summer of 1864, William Tecumseh Sherman ran wild through Georgia. He burned and destroyed every civilian item he could find, even humans. That included young women. These were Americans, displaced, starved, sometimes raped, by American soldiers. There were…
You will not be saved by General Motors or the pre-fabricated house. You will not be saved by dialectic materialism or the Lambeth Conference. You will not be saved by Vitamin D or the expanding universe. In fact, you will…
Last week, you read here a crucial excerpt from Hamas’s 1987 charter which set out its belief that its enemy was not the Israeli but the Jew. In doing so, Hamas indicated that it was not just engaged in seeking…
Over the last two weeks, the Palestinian people of the Gaza Strip have been at the mercy not of Israel but of Hamas. One feels for the Gazans. They’re suffering serious deprivation, lacking basic supplies and food and water, watching…