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...
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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...
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...
Open Orthodoxy Update, Parshas Miketz
From support of “alternative lifestyles” contrary to Torah to celebrating opposition to Israel, Open Orthodoxy continues to outdo itself — even hiring a PR firm to promote their departures from traditional Judaism.
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...
Crazy Attention
“The sheerest form of corporate anti-Semitism in recent memory” is how popular political commentator Ben Shapiro characterized the recent decision of Airbnb, the San Francisco-based company that matches travelers with private home lodging around...
Looking Over Our Right Shoulders
Newly elected member of the House of Representatives Ilhan Omar, a Democrat from Minnesota, recently admitted that she supports BDS, the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement against Israel. Back in August, though, when asked...
The Politicization of Anti-Semitism
The blood of the victims was not yet dry, and already people were diverting our attention from the simple fact that Jews are still murdered for being Jews – and not hesitating to blame Jews for anti-Semitism.
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