April 12, 2022

Why are Israeli Arabs so defiant?

In a recent article in the Middle East Quarterly, editor Efraim Karsh argues that Israel's Arabs are the biggest threat to Israel.  At first glance, the reader may be taken aback by such a notion.  Have not...

September 9, 2021

We Are From Judea

I grew up in Chicago in the 1940s and 1950s in a liberal Jewish home. My parents and their friends were all quite Jewish and Zionist in their leanings. Yet they also were very attached to Russian culture as well -- my mother was born in the Ukraine. ...

June 21, 2021

We Jews must set our own narrative

Sometimes it seems that the outside world does not see Jews at all as real living people, but rather as psychological projections of either the religious right or the Marxist left. For the secular left in America, Jews have been praised for their ...

August 12, 2018

Apoplectic critics can’t answer Dinesh D’Souza’s ideas

That the political dialogue in America has become toxic is not a new insight, unfortunately, much if not most of it coming from the so-called “progressive elite.” However, for the most part, it has not centered on artistic work, which we ...

March 1, 2008

Ten Commandments for a Biblical Psychology and Psychotherapy

Fifty years ago, Dr. Eric Wellisch, medical director of Grayford Child Guidance Clinic in England, called for a Biblical psychology, arguing: The very word "psyche" is Greek.  The central psychoanalytic concept of the formation of char...