Window on the Warped
Interested in making a quick $14.88? Well, you might want to consider writing a racist or anti-Semitic article and submitting it to “The Daily Stormer,” one of the more famous neo-Nazi websites that sprout...
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The Tragedy Of The Liberal Jewish Response To Rubashkin’s Release
An article of mine about the negative reactions of some in the Jewish community to the release of Sholom Rubashkin and the celebrations thereof, can be read here.
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...
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.
Gezunt or Glucophobia?
Have you been following the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s advice to drink three cups of milk a day, to get enough calcium and vitamin D? No? Good for you. Multiple studies show that there...
Peter Beinart’s Orthophobia
Below is my original draft of a piece I wrote for Forward. The article as it appeared there, though, was substantially edited, and several sentences that I think are important were omitted. So I...
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