(1) Caroline Glick on Israel’s Iran strike, the Biden administration’s reported consideration of sanctioning an entire IDF unit composed of Orthodox Jews, and the meaning of Passover: (2) If you want to know more about the Passover Seder, please read … Continue reading →
Minouche Shafik is president of Columbia University, and like the troika of other Ivy college presidents before her who testified before the House about campus anti-Semitism, she recently was interviewed by that legislative body. Shafik had the advantage of having … Continue reading →
I happened across an old post of mine (2006) about the Palestinian terrorist hijacking of a cruise ship in 1985, during which they murdered a disabled elderly American Jewish man in a wheelchair, named Leon Klinghoffer. The post was also … Continue reading →
This was tragic news: Seven aid workers from World Central Kitchen were killed in an Israeli airstrike … Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed that the Israeli military was responsible for the unintended “tragic” strike and vowed to investigate. … … Continue reading →
As usual, Caroline Glick is well worth listening to: I am highly impressed by Patricia Heaton. A brave woman and a very articulate advocate for Israel who has spearheaded a pro-Israel movement pitched to non-Jews, both Christian and others: And … Continue reading →
Julie Strauss Levin writes in Tablet magazine: For some American Jews, the months since Oct. 7 have felt like a horror movie, as they watch, with increasing alarm, as our president—for whom many voted, and in whom many placed inviolable … Continue reading →
Joe Lieberman was 82 years old: Joe Lieberman, a longtime senator from Connecticut who became the first Jewish American to be nominated on a major party’s ticket, died Wednesday. He was 82. Lieberman’s family stated that he died “due to … Continue reading →
Back in December I wrote a lengthy post on the “Jewish vote” – how much people seem to care about that statistic, and the amount in terms of numbers. I strongly suggest you read that post now; it’s not particularly … Continue reading →
Jewish holidays began at sundown and end at sundown, and Purim is no exception. This year it has special resonance: It commemorates the (Divinely orchestrated) salvation of the Jewish people in the ancient Persian empire from Haman’s plot “to destroy, … Continue reading →
Worth listening to:
Continue reading →The trend-setting accessory of the evening last night at the Oscars was a little pin that has been described in several different ways. I had trouble finding a closeup, but here’s the way it was described by those advocating its … Continue reading →
I’ve cued this up for about a nine-minute excerpt that I think is a valuable lesson about the history of “Palestine.”
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