Genetics and Mimetics
When my family lived in Providence, Rhode Island back in the 1980’s and early ‘90s, I heard rumors that some of the city’s residents of Cape Verdean ancestry had a strange custom. Friday afternoons,...
Author: Avi Shafran
We’re Happy to Disinform You
The weathered ex-soldier’s face on the screen was accompanied by the message: “At least 50,000 homeless veterans are starving, dying in the streets, but liberals want to invite 620,000 refugees and settle them among...
Hatred, Hatred Everywhere
Even before the Pittsburgh Massacre, Damon Joseph, 21, who lives in a suburb of Toledo, Ohio, hoped to go on a “virtual jihad.” The murders of 11 Jews at the end of October in...
Open Letter from Rav Brudny, Rav Bender and Rav Reisman on behalf of Torah Umesorah
י”א טבת, תשע”ט December 19, 2018 OPEN LETTER TO THE YESHIVA COMMUNITY We are grateful for the outcry of Klal Yisroel, protesting the new State guidelines. It is your chorus of concern that has...
Don’t cry for me, Eric Yoffie
Enough decades have passed to allow some of us to recall biologist Paul R. Ehrlich’s 1968 bestseller “The Population Bomb,” in which the author, soberly analyzing relevant data, predicted worldwide famine within twenty years...
Hanukkah and the Soul
An opinion piece I wrote about Chanukah was published by the New York Times last week. It can be read here.
Agreeing to Disagree
I understand the justification for placing Louis Farrakhan and a company shunning business in the West Bank on the same spectrum, if far from each other. But no one should be puzzled by my...
Still, Small, Defiant Lights
I’m always struck by the contrast this time of year between, on the one hand, the garish multicolored and blinking lights that scream for attention from so many American homes and, on the other,...
Not All Discrimination is Hatred-Fueled
Finally! Something my cherished chaver Rabbi Yitzchak Adlerstein and I can agreeably disagree about. Though, alas, I don’t think the disagreement is as weighty as he thinks. Rather than recap our respective positions, they...
No, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Did Not Sin Against The Memory Of The Holocaust
We do no favors to the memory of the Holocaust when, for political purposes, we unfairly accuse people of dishonoring it. Whatever one may think of incoming Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, she did not compare...
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