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,…
In his magisterial biography of Winston Churchill, the late Martin Gilbert described the visit Churchill paid Gaza in 1921. Gaza at that time had a population of about 15,000 Arabs as well a little less than 100 Jews, the tiny…
In an article this week in Tablet entitled “The Politics of Tribal Nonsense,” Wilfred Reilly chronicles how modern identity politics has corrupted truth. The “tribal nonsense” Reilly identifies are a series of great false narratives — such as the hagiography of…
In his philosophical dialogue Kuzari, the poet Rabbi Yehuda HaLevi portrayed an imagined series of talks between a Khazar king and religious representatives of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, as well as with a philosopher who did not identify with any…
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…
I write, of all places, from picturesque Northern Italy. I am here for a wedding where, as the case may be, both bride and groom come from Israeli families. This is thus the second time, following last Saturday evening’s celebration…
The reasonable, prudent, sensible reaction to the attack on Israel is for our side to kill them all. It should be obvious, but, in these times, it is safer to say it anyway. Briefly: “our side” = the Free World,…
I am an American. I also am a Jew. All Jews with Jewish souls are Zionists. Enough ink has been spilled in my columns these past eight years about Jewish apostates who do not follow that program. Not today. They…
The president of the United States should announce that he will give the Islamic Republic of Iran exactly one hour to secure from its terrorist puppets, Hamas and Hezbollah, a total cessation of hostilities against Israel. If this does not…
I saw the new movie Route 60, The Biblical Highway the first day it was released in theaters. As the synopsis on the web site indicates, this is much more than a travel documentary: Carving through the heart of the…