Unbearable
“Look… This child awaits his turn. Watch their humiliation. They are corpses, Allah be praised…”
Author: Avi Shafran
Hypocrisies, Imagined and Real
I hope my wife and kids don’t find out that I consider it kosher to force 16-year-old girls to work 20 hours a day.
In fact, I was shocked at myself for having said such a thing – or, at least, I would have been had I actually said it.
Weapons, and Weapons
When one lacks any semblance of moral justification for one’s belligerence and lust to murder innocents, there is only benefit in having as many dead civilians as possible of one’s own to display in lieu of logic.
Pray for the Gazan Boy
No, I’m neither a prophet nor a covert Israeli operative. Yes, it was only a day after I distributed a column taking the New York Times to task for refusing to call Hamas a...
Terrorized Times
Does all an organization that routinely attacks innocents have to do to achieve respectability is garner the support of a population and open health clinics?
Unwashed Poets and Kashrut
Recently I was privileged to participate in a student-group organized panel presentation at Yeshiva University entitled “The Kosher Quandary: Ethics and Kashrut.” The panel included representatives of the Orthodox Union, the Rabbinical Council of...
The Audacity of Hopelessness
The President-elect once bought a home whose deed prohibited its resale or rental to Jews. He had associations with a number of dubious characters, some of whom did not much care for Hebrews. In...
The Art of Menschlichkeit
A New York tabloid recently mocked the Bush White House. No news there; ‘tis the season, so to speak. The fodder for this ridicule, though, wasn’t political. It consisted, rather, of the artwork on...
“Married” and The Mob
From the agitation and anger of the crowds, the din of the car horns and the shouts of “Civil rights now!” and “Bigots!” one would have been forgiven for thinking that the protesters were...
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