December 28, 2022

Can Israel's Netanyahu Bring Peace to Ukraine and Russia Based on the 'Egyptian Model'?

As the long and bitter winter sets in on the on the war ravaged land of the Ukraine, and as more than 10 million Ukrainians are left with no electricity or heating, the eminent humanitarian crises is upon us. So it’s not surprising that...

November 3, 2020

The best reflection of Joe Biden in film

Joe Biden is presented to the general public as a man of good breeding, intelligent, knowledgeable, and competent.  Biden's simplicity is mistaken for profoundness, his years at the Senate as proof of his experience, and his befriending...

April 5, 2020

NY's Coronavirus Panic Would Look Very Different with Different Leadership

A reasonable observer would expect a minimum level of professionalism from New York City health commissioner, Dr. Oxiris Barbot.  One wouldn't expect that someone charged with protecting New York City's public health would instead e...

November 22, 2019

Rocket Attacks and Snow Days

When I was a kid growing up on the Grand Concourse in the Bronx, snow days were special events that we waited for all winter long.  As kids, we would rejoice, while our parents would be stuck at home worrying about not being able to get to ...

September 6, 2019

American Jews Are in Total Denial about the Democratic Party

Not a day goes by without Jews being shot in their synagogues, stabbed, bludgeoned by blocks, physically attacked, pushed to the ground, spat on, and cursed; without graffiti on the walls of Jewish institutions, graffiti on the walls of synagogues; w...

July 22, 2019

How Trump and Netanyahu Reflect Each Other

The juvenile "Mod Squad" of four freshmen congresswomen deceptively accuse anyone critical of their clearly anti-American, anti-Semitic, and anti-Western rantings of being racists and fundamentally opposed to people of color.  Ehu...

May 15, 2019

Democratic Party and Progressive activism empower anti-Semitism

Reports of anti-Semitic rhetoric and actual physical attacks on American Jews have become a common occurrence in many American Jewish communities throughout the United States.  Despite the denial of most American Jews that I run into during...

April 10, 2019

The implications of Netanyahu's re-election

Benjamin Netanyahu has been declared the winner of an unprecedented fifth term as Israel's prime minister, refusing to be beaten by the combined political force of three former IDF army chiefs; pending bribery and fraud allegations hanging over h...

October 4, 2018

The End of the Jewish World as We Know It

Rabbi Lord Jonathan Saks has stated that the ultimate basis of Jewish peoplehood throughout history has been "Kol Yisrael arevim zeh bazeh" – "All Jews are responsible for one another."  We may not agree on anythin...

November 7, 2017

Jewish humor and the Holocaust

For the past few days I have had to re-examine many assumptions concerning what the Holocaust means to liberal Jews as a result of Larry David's monologue on Saturday Night Live.  As I viewed his monologue over and over, it seemed to resonat...

October 13, 2017

The Sunni Nations and the 'Jordanian Option'

On September 1, 1967, the Arab League summit delivered the "Three No's" - no to peace with Israel, no recognition of Israel, and no negotiations with Israel. This declaration was passed as part of the Khartoum Resolution at a summit att...

August 6, 2017

Unconditional Christian Love for Israel

In the United States, the two groups that most ardently support Israel are Jews and evangelical Christians. Jewish support is easy to explain, but why should certain Christians, most of them politically quite conservative, be so devoted to Israel? Th...

July 23, 2017

Palestinians heading for catastrophe (again)

Palestinians are leading themselves towards a third “Nakba” (Arabic word for catastrophe), a term used widely by Palestinians Arabs in describing the establishment of the State of Israel. Palestinians mark Israel’s founding in 1948 ...

July 7, 2017

Liberal Jews to Israel: Do It Our Way or Else

In recent days, liberal American Jewish leaders have done everything in their power to portray the prime minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, and his ruling coalition as purposely causing significant harm to the strong alliance between diaspora Je...

June 7, 2017

Britain’s Islamic Domino

The current wave of Islamic terror seen in Manchester and London, only reinforces the general feeling that the excessive  political correctness of recent years by the Obama Presidency, by the British Labor party, and the European media has foste...

June 5, 2017

England’s Islamic Domino Effect

The current wave of Islamic terror in Manchester and in London only reinforces the general feeling that the excessive political correctness of recent years by the Obama presidency, by the British Labor party, and the European media has fostered and f...

April 30, 2017

Time to rebrand the Holocaust?

This month, Israel not only commemorated not only the six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust, but also recalled the untold stories of the many acts of Jewish resistance that occurred during this period throughout Europe – the Holocaust ...

March 16, 2017

Living with Anti-Semitism in America

American Jews and the Jewish organizations that represent them have demanded, in thundeing pleas, that President Trump take action and end the current tsunami of anti-Semitic attacks on the American Jewish community.  This is just and reasonable...

February 16, 2017

Trump-Hatred of Sanctimonious Jews Empowering Anti-Semites

In the weeks following the election of President Trump, the dams have burst, sending legions of demonstrators into the streets of America in the hope of warding off the impending inevitability of a Trump incumbency.  Yet despite the tens of thou...

December 29, 2016

Obama at the UN: The mouse that roared

Obama has been perceived for the better part of the past eight years by many of the world's leadership as a spineless and weak leader, never feeling comfortable or really knowing how to implement the art of statesmanship.  Obama caved in to ...

December 1, 2016

Election 2016: The Day the Music Died for American Jews

For most American Jewish liberals, November 8 was not only a watershed election, but a day in which the music died.  They have been left speechless and silent, unwilling to fathom the implications.  These liberal Jews have become disoriente...

October 2, 2016

The Palestinian Authority Is Losing Authority

In recent days, the head of the Palestinian Authority (PA), Mahmoud Abbas, spoke at the General Assembly of the United Nations basing his remarks on three basic Palestinian beliefs that reflect the Palestinians’ inability to be partners towards...

August 22, 2016

The Rebranding of Donald Trump

Throughout the Republican primary season this past year, Donald Trump enjoyed near rock star status after being left largely alone by the mainstream media.  Their coordinated goal was to tolerate the positive media attention given to Trump so th...

July 5, 2016

The Global Consequences of Obama’s Denial

Denial is defined as a psychological defense mechanism, and was postulated by psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, in which a person is faced with a fact that is too uncomfortable to accept and rejects it instead, insisting that it is not true despite what m...

June 7, 2016

The Six-Day Miracle 49 Years Ago

The six days between June 5th until June 10, 1967 are without parallel in the story of human warfare. These 6 days are also without parallel as far as modern day miracles are concerned as well. Prior to 1967, who had ever heard of a full-scale war me...

May 20, 2016

Perception as deterrence – Israel’s new Defense Minister

The recent news that Avigdor Liberman, a former Israeli Foreign Minister and head of the Yisrael Beiteinu party, a small right-wing party, will replace Moshe “Bogie” Ya’alon as the new Israeli defense minister  and has been por...

April 20, 2016

Bernie Sanders’s Bigotry of Low Expectations

On the domestic campaign trail, Bernie Sanders has talked repeatedly about economic inequality, a criminal justice system that incarcerates a disproportionate number of black people, and of the need for a political revolution. Sanders portrays the pr...

March 28, 2016

Islam’s Willing Executioners

Islam cannot conceive of itself as a minority in a secular State. Violent Islamists, an active and determined minority of Muslims, refuse integration. In Europe, they not only intend to keep their Islamic identity, but to Islamize the non-practicing ...