From Harvard academic, David Ropeik’s “Terrorism — Why It Frightens, and Unites Us, ” through French intellectual, Dominique Sopo’s “Faced With Hatred, We Must Respond With Unity, ” and even to the Grand Mufti of Egypt, Shawki Ibrahim Abdel-Karim Allam, who wrote, “If…
Starting this week, Israeli products will be marked with a special tag. The official claim against us is that Israel is an occupying country and therefore deserves to be condemned. Allegedly, if we stop the occupation and reach a political…
The security situation is affecting every aspect of our lives. When the general insanity is maintained every day by clips of stabbing attacks, and at the same time Europe starts marking Israeli products, is it any wonder that we are…
Where I live (Israel), most everyone I know is busy trying to make sense of an insane situation. It’s not that anyone was surprised that violence has erupted once again in our tormented stretch of earth. It’s also not the…
Whenever the Israeli-Palestinian conflict erupts in Israel, everyone offers advice, if not active intervention. Actually, even in quieter times everyone seems to be busy with the conflict in the Middle-East. In just the last few years, hundreds of thousands of people…
What do you call a crazed Palestinian man—who until that moment was working alongside Israeli Jews for an Israeli phone company—deliberately driving his car into a bus stop, running over the pedestrians, then stepping out of his car and frantically stabbingthese…
The more we move into the High Holy Days, the more they look like their other name: The Terrible Days. To some, it seems as though the escalating chaos in East Jerusalem is orchestrated with the diplomatic campaign of Palestinian…
The Jewish festivals are more than food and family gatherings. They are both spiritually profound, and far more relevant for us today than most people realize. The Jewish festivals are a trajectory of the nation’s destiny, a cardiogram of our…
On August 19, the Reform Movement published its official Response to Iran Deal. It expressed a great deal of concern and uncertainty about the future, but it seemed intent on refraining from making any clear statements because “At this time, there…
Last night, I gave a lecture at the Rego Park Jewish Center in Queens, New York. The topic was “What makes people single out Jews, and what can counter anti-Semitism’s sharp rise.” Admittedly, I was not very hopeful. I had…
This coming Monday at 7:30 pm, I will be speaking at the Rego Park Jewish Center in Queens, New York, about what makes people single out Jews, and what can counter anti-Semitism’s sharp rise. As we are approaching the ninth of Av, and in light…
Lately, it seems as though the more we talk about Jewish unity, the more we feel the lack of it. Unity has been a hallmark of our nation since Moses united us at the foot of Mt. Sinai and we…