September 29, 2026 | 18 Tishri 5787
As some of you know, I’m a huge comic book geek. I don’t read a lot of the modern superhero comics, yet I was interested in Marvel’s ongoing relaunch of the X-Men titles. The X-Men comics and movies are now owned by the same company – Disney – for the first time in a long […]
President Trump’s decision to abandon our U.S. allies, the Kurds, is a grave error. There are two problems with it. First, we are on the wrong side. It’s a matter of right and wrong. The Kurds are – or are least have been – U.S. allies who fought for many years against Saddam Hussein and […]
President Trump’s decision to abandon our U.S. allies, the Kurds, is a grave error. There are two problems with it. First, we are on the wrong side. It’s a matter of right and wrong. The Kurds are – or are least have been – U.S. allies who fought for many years against Saddam Hussein and […]
Dear Rep. Moore, As voting constituents of your district we must express our personal disappointment and dismay at your recent vote against HR 246. Your public opposition to a resolution condemning the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign and its efforts to isolate and delegitimize the Jewish state, the only democracy in the Middle East, is […]
“Why do Orthodox Jews think they’re ‘holier than thou,’ even with the way they dress?” This comment was expressed to me by another Jew, who noted that some other Jews hold this same viewpoint. If so, I wonder whether some Jews view devotees of other religions in a similar vein, or whether this sentiment is […]
I’m usually a passionate defender of the media. I’ll be with friends or family or out in the world somewhere, or on the phone with a reader. I’ll be told the New York Times or some other media organization is anti-Israel. They say it to me in particular because I’ve worked in the media most […]
A relatively new word has been increasingly circulating in European and U.S. political discussions – “civilizationism.” What people mean when they use it appears potentially troubling, not least for the world Jewish community. In a quick Internet search, I have not been able to trace the word’s appearance beyond about 2007. The thinking […]
You might be surprised to know that the Jewish community in Hungary, in the heart of central Europe, is statistically safer and less likely to be a victim of an antisemitic act, than all other European states, and the government is emphatically pro-Israel. At the same time, there is a roiling controversy about remembrance of […]
Life is like a game of pinball. The little silver ball bounces from one side of the machine to the other. It goes where it goes. You can try to control the ball with the flippers. Good luck with that. In my experience, the flippers are pretty awful for controlling anything. It wasn’t my idea […]
We just passed Passover, which may be the first major example of anti-Semitism in our reported history. Such anti-Semitism, even before we became the Jewish people, was bad enough that the story depicts that we couldn’t wait any longer to leave Egypt for our “promised land” of Israel, an Israel which is now the focus […]
