Did Hamas merely want to kick-start the statehood process with its barbaric rapes and murders on 1200-plus unarmed men, women, and children on October 7? Not according to a report from Haaretz last week. Hamas leaders had launched the attack expecting to trigger a calamitous and overwhelming conquest of Israel. In fact, they had such […]
Rep. Vincente Gonzalez (D-TX) is running for re-election. The Democrat represents the 34th Congressional District of Texas which includes cities like Brownsville and McAllen. The district is heavily Hispanic. Republicans have been making progress in South Texas, which dates back to Donald Trump’s term in office. Former Rep. Mayra Flores Vallejo is his Republican challenger. […]
Most Jews, statistically speaking, are liberal. My grandmother grew up Jewish, and although she spent most of her life working hard to assimilate, she was, in the end, quintessentially a New York Jewish liberal. My father, who did not grow up Jewish (although his brother adopted the identity), was still classified as a Jew when […]
THE unprecedented savagery and depravity of the October 7 pogrom in Israel shocked all decent-thinking people in the world. To many Jews living in the West it, and the reaction to it, came as a particularly brutal wake-up call. In the words of a self-styled former progressive leftist, Hamas ‘slaughtered his wokeness’. Shocking reactions – even of denial […]
THIS month marks 30 years since the release of Schindler’s List, Stephen Spielberg’s three-hour cinematic masterpiece which won seven Academy Awards. 1993 was also the year of my first visit to Kraków, Poland, and the districts of Kazimierz and Podgórze where Spielberg spent five months with his family during the filming. During World War II, Podgórze […]
Since World War II, most American Jews have believed that the more secular American society is, the more secure their status. This has been, as I have argued all of my life, a colossal error. Indeed, it may turn out to be a fatal error. With the outburst of unprecedented levels of antisemitism, American Jews […]
New York Times headline: “On Israel, Progressive Jews Feel Abandoned by Their Left-Wing Allies.” NBC News: “The left faces a reckoning as Israel divides Democrats.” Time Magazine: “How the Activist Left Turned on Israel.” Los Angeles Times: “‘The left has really let us down.’ Why many American Jews feel abandoned” Financial Times: “Left’s take on […]
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