The story of the Exodus recited around the Passover table contains this introduction: Had the Holy One, blessed be He, not taken our ancestors out of Egypt, then we, our children, and our children’s children would still be enslaved to…
Palm Sunday puts you on edge from the opening scenes. You know the show will be nonstop drama. The script merits admiration because it sets up the key to an essential dogma of what makes us, what shall I say,…
The eight-day Biblical festival of Pesach (Hebrew for Passover) begins this Saturday night, March 27 (Exodus 12). It is the central family event in Judaism, the Seder that Orthodox Jews outside Israel mark twice, on each of the first two nights of Passover. (In Israel…
Someone’s gotta say it. Few ever do. And really, in all fairness, only a Jew with Judaic credentials like mine can write this. So here goes: The Shoah as a Chilling Lesson of History and a Call to Action for Survival…
Yesterday, I shared my thoughts on the evil soul of the White-hater, Jew-hater, Israel-hater, and overall despicable person Raphael Warnock. To summarize those 1500 words in 20 words: Warnock, who has the theological soul of a Warlock, regards the Wrong…
My father-in-law of blessed memory taught Talmud and Rabbinics in Berlin until 1940. He was there as Germany’s Jewish community was terrorized, stripped of rights, mulcted, and isolated. He knew tyranny firsthand. He would often teach that, in conveying the…
Elmer Wheeler, who billed himself as the World’s Greatest Salesman, used to teach, “Don’t sell the steak, sell the sizzle.” It works pretty well. But if it turns out that all the salesman had to sell was a sizzle and…
Here’s a story from Ukraine from over 200 years ago. It was the eve of the Passover holiday, and for the Jews of Berditchev, as for Jews everywhere, this was the busiest day of the year. Yet with only a…
If Hyphen Cortez is correct, you will never read this because the world will have ended before the annual American Spectator gala. Either the glaciers of Greenland will have melted and ruined the reams of pulp on which this essay is…
