Claremont Institute Prof. Glenn Ellmers began a talk during a Hillsdale College conference on “Christianity in America” by citing the famous letter President George Washington wrote to the Jewish community of Newport, Rhode Island. (Ellmers’ talk was adapted and published…
Growing up, Thanksgiving was always — by far — my favorite holiday on the American civic calendar. It still is today. And while I have fond memories of playing football on Thanksgiving Day with childhood friends and eating turkey legs…
Today we commemorate the birthday of Sir Moses Montefiore, born on Oct. 24, 1784, and who passed away peacefully in England on July 28, 1885. He was more than 100 years old at the time of his death. Montefiore is…
Shana Tova, my fellow Jews. As Yom Kippur approaches, our thoughts naturally are focused on teshuvah, acknowledging our prior indiscretions and committing once again to virtue. To that end, in this election year, we owe it to our families, fellow…
The new anti-Semitism — let’s call it Jew hate, since that is what it is, not a study of ethnography — realizes that Hitler really ruined it for Jew haters big time. If he only had been allied with America…
The people of Israel started out as a family. Israel was the name of the father of the twelve sons who became twelve tribes. The Book of Exodus describes how this family became a nation, in which the covenant that…
In 1981 Chaim Potok published a novel about Japan called The Book of Lights based on his experience of living in Japan as a chaplain in the U.S. army after the Korean War. Potok had been raised as a traditional…
My frequent long road trips through the Ohio countryside are times to enjoy the outstanding company of such people as Victor D. Hanson, Ben Shapiro, Carolyn Glick, Jordan Peterson and their guests. Just this past week, Peterson had as his…
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,…
