Surveying Some Surveys
The imbalance itself didn’t come as a surprise to anyone who has been observing the political scene in recent years, but the degree to which Democrats’ support for Israel has dropped and Republicans’ has...
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You Know Who Isn’t Abandoning Israel?
An article I wrote for the Forward last week about American Jewry’s current and future relationship with Israel can be read here.
Envy Isn’t Jewish
The Western Wall in Jerusalem could (and should) be a place of Jewish unity; instead, it has become for some a target of envy. How much more good would these American leaders do, were they to not increase jealousy but reduce it?
What IS Jerusalem?
Whether one regards President Trump’s declaration that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel as a dangerous and foolhardy move or wise and deeply principled, it cast a well-deserved bucket of cold water into the...
Not Just Jerusalem: Why America’s Rabbis Voted Trump and Don’t Regret It
Western civilization depends upon choosing biblical values over those of Greeks, Romans, Huns, and Visigoths. This is not a political posture, but reference to our moral foundation.
Agudath Israel on General Assembly Vote
Agudath Israel Statement on This Morning’s U.N. General Assembly Vote The countries that voted this morning in the United Nations General Assembly to demand that the U.S. rescind its recognition of...
Reform’s Celebration of Lawlessness
No one was “roughed up” due to being a Reform Jew, much as saying so delighted anti-Semitic bigots around the globe. Whatever violence transpired was directly attributable to the behavior of Rabbi Davidson and his colleagues.
Agudath Israel Letter to Turkish Consul Condemning Erdogan’s Ugly Words
December 11, 2017 BY REGULAR MAIL & E-MAIL ([email protected]) Honorable Ertan Yalçın Consul General Turkish Consulate General in New York 825 3rd Avenue New York, NY 10022 Dear Mr. Consul General: I write on behalf...
Truth Is Attractive
It wasn’t a phone call the head of the Union for Reform Judaism ever wanted to get. Taglit-Birthright was calling, with bad news. In the U.S., the “Taglit” (“discovery”) part of the name of...
The Reform and Conservative Movements’ Jerusalem Problem
An article of mine about an inconsistency in the heterodox Jewish movements’ attitudes appears on Tablet, and can be read here.
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