More than 45 years ago, I left the Soviet Union for Israel. Back in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), I once witnessed a brutal attack on a Jewish man. When I stepped in to help, the police explained that they punished…
For decades, America has stood as a symbol of liberty, opportunity, and freedom. Jews who immigrated to its shores believed they had found refuge, a land where they could prosper and contribute to society without fear of persecution. But the…
The connection to the source of life, the force of love, bestowal, and connection, goes through Israel. Israel here is meant in the spiritual sense (“Israel” from the words, “Yashar-El” [straight to the upper force]), not as a geographic location…
Every year, Holocaust Remembrance Day compels us to pause and confront the unbearable pain etched into the Jewish people. Today, as memory fades into history, we must not only mourn but reflect deeply on the causes and lessons of that…
History shows that the world’s biggest transformations and crises have always been accompanied by the rise of antisemitism. Jews have continuously been viewed as the root of all evil and have been the scapegoats for blame in a staggering array…
I cannot view the current wave of antisemitism heedlessly. During the last decade I’ve warned through media articles and books about the threat of a potential new Holocaust on American soil or Europe, in light of the growing anti-Jewish sentiment…
There is nothing that Jewish antisemites will not give to the nations of the world in return for some sympathy. They will give up their identity, tradition, history, sovereignty, and just about anything to get the world’s approval. But everything…
Throughout the ages, the outward expressions of that inner, natural hatred that has always haunted the Jews have changed. Regimes and ideologies rose and fell, but antisemitism persists. Each time the excuses for hating Jews become presented in different shapes…
Much has been written about antisemitism as the eternal hatred against Jews; far less attention has been devoted to the challenging self-examination of when the antisemites are Jews themselves and why this paradox occurs. Jewish self-hatred is the unique phenomenon…
There is no example in all of humanity of a people or a nation that so desperately pursues to undermine and inflict pain on themselves as the Jewish people. As if antisemitism had not given rise to enough enemies, history…
The matter of Jewish self-hatred deeply worries me. It is the reason why the nations of the world hate us: because we hate ourselves. As a Jew, I cannot stand by and passively witness how disunity has infected every corner…
The rising tide of anti-Israel sentiment in America, particularly within its prestigious universities, is indeed a cause for concern. Institutions like New York University, Yale, Columbia, Harvard, UCLA, UC Berkeley, MIT and the University of Michigan, which are renowned for…