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…
My first article ever in The American Spectator appeared Aug. 18, 2017. In those days, my column was entitled “Dov Is All You Need.” Thing is, “Dov” rhymes with “stove,” not “love,” so we eventually renamed the column to play on my triple…
Judgment doesn’t have such a good rap. Calling someone “judgmental” today has the feel that calling someone a heretic had a few centuries ago. It is an uncomfortable accusation and meant to be so. It’s a measure-for-measure response for being…
The unetaneh tokef prayer on Rosh Hashanah mentions the unpredictable inevitable human condition, as the book of life is opened, to be filled in over the coming days with the judgment of who will come to his timely end, and…
A delegation of nine imams from across the United States recently visited Israel on an interfaith mission organized by the nonprofit Sharaka (meaning “partnership” in Arabic). The imams were led by Dr. Talib Shareef, the head imam of Masjid Muhammad…
Personal Note: I have been out of circulation these past two fortnights, keeping up with a slew of pre-scheduled medical appointments, all part of the standard regimen to assure lung transplant patients can continue writing long-term for The American Spectator. Adam Sandler’s new Netflix…
Last week there was a “teachable moment” of sorts, as Ohio Rep. Max Miller uncorked a highly ill-advised tweet attacking Lizzie Marbach, who like Miller had served as a staffer in President Donald Trump’s 2020 reelection campaign, for expressing a…
Eighty percent of American Jews have absolutely no idea what Judaism is. You see them on TV. You read them in some publications. Aside from the despicable George Soros and communist Bernie Sanders, these “Lost Jews” likewise are bereft of heritage and…
Last November, the voters of Israel democratically elected — by a significant majority — a moderately conservative, center-right government that likewise is sympathetic to traditional family values. Just as the Left in America blazes forth with its worst venom against…
New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman once penned a piece wherein he wished that the United States had an effective autocratic government like China’s. “One-party autocracy certainly has its drawbacks,” Friedman wrote. “But when it is led by a reasonably…