Nearly three weeks ago, I wrote of the saddest period in the annual Jewish calendar. This Saturday night and Sunday will mark the apex of tragedy. It is the Ninth Day of the Hebrew month of Av — better known…
There are approximately one million Orthodox Jews in the United States. The main group of Orthodox rabbis speaking on public policy matters is Coalition for Jewish Values. It speaks for 2,000 — two thousand — American rabbis. The largest collegial…
Because my several thousand readers in The American Spectator seem mostly to be devout Christians (although rumor has it that Jews read me, too, as do agnostics and even anti-Semites), I present herein more universal thoughts rather than purely Judaic…
Biden and Pelosi, you wanna blame guns and gun manufacturers for school shootings? It has been a longtime meme of the conservative Second Amendment pro-gun lobby that guns do not kill people; rather, people kill people. Look at Orthodox Jews…
A few weeks ago, I was delighted to see an author writing in the pages of The American Spectator and referring with approval to Aristotle’s principle of the Golden Mean. The great Greek philosopher observed nature’s pursuit of balance and…
As “woke corporations” like Disney begin to learn that American shareholders and consumers are sick of companies virtue-signaling at the cost of stock value and in defiance of Middle American mainstream family values, one of the biggest stories has been…
A week or so ago, some leftist organizations, nominally “Jewish,” held a demonstration advocating for abortion on demand. Surely, our First Amendment encourages people to rally, associate publicly, and state their positions unfettered. However, sharp criticism is demanded when such…
In the Wholly Epistemic and Cathartic Church, known popularly as Wokism, there are few accorded greater reverence than St. Barack the Inscrutable. His legendary inscrutablity enabled him to tangle the untangled and to bring regimentation, stagnation, and indignation of dogma…
I first met Stuart when I was a congregational rav (Orthodox rabbi) in Calabasas, based in the San Fernando Valley. He is a brilliant attorney, was working in-house at a prominent corporation, and now was exploring more deeply his religious…
