December 23, 2020

Virtual Assembly: A Constitutional Alternative to the Real Thing?

On December 10, 2020, the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts declared that the First Amendment right to assemble face to face is now obsolete because the internet provides a sufficient “virtual assembly” alternative. Therefore, accor...

July 3, 2020

Make Love, Not Jihad

There might be something to the old hippie line about making love, not war. Crushing last decade’s violent Islamist uprisings in the Middle East took brute military force, but homegrown Islamist extremism among American Muslims may be more vuln...

October 9, 2019

CAIR and the Rabbis

As anti-Semitism grows in America, synagogue safety has become an urgent concern for most American Jewish leaders. Not so, it would seem, for the Massachusetts Board of Rabbis (MBR). Recently, MBR joined forces with the Hamas front group CAIR (the Co...

August 25, 2019

Jewish Rabbis and Disloyalty

Like the boy in the tale of the emperor’s new clothes, President Trump has once again spoken a taboo truth: Some American Jews seem to be more loyal to an increasingly anti-Jewish and far-left Democratic Party than they are to the Jewish people...

August 4, 2019

The Anti-Semitism Monopoly

Recently, while defending Democratic congresswoman Rashida Tlaib from charges of anti-Semitism over her Holocaust comments, Jeremy Burton, the head of Boston’s umbrella Jewish community organization, asserted a cartel monopoly for establishment...