Behold Your G-d?
The Jews for Jesus have come to Baltimore, as part of a multi-year campaign to blanket every major Jewish population center (outside Israel). Predictably and understandably, our local Jewish community is up in arms....
A Time to Reach Out
London Jewish Tribune August 26, 2005 In the long span of Jewish history, the uprooting of 8,500 Jews from Gaza will not rank as one of the worst tragedies, though it was unique in...
Haaretz Hates Religious Jews
The Jewish Press August 24, 2005 Even as most Israelis, including those who strongly supported the withdrawal from Gaza, shed tears and felt and shared the pain of those who were being forced out...
Responding to my Critics
Just over one hour ago, fully mindful of the negative reactions that my article has provoked, I approached an elderly neighbor of mine here in Jerusalem. This man is a survivor of Auschwitz who...
Aftermath of a Murder
As you may have heard, a 21-year-old British student of the Mirrer Yeshiva Jerusalem was murdered Wednesday evening by an Arab terrorist in the Old City of Jerusalem. He was to be married in...
The Price of Success
Mishpacha Magazine August 25, 2005 Reading the lead essay in the June issue of The Jewish Observer, “Struggling with Success,” by Rabbi Mattis Roberts, I was reminded of the words of Ralph Waldo Emerson,...
The “Jude”on the Yellow Star
When Israeli soldiers entered a barricaded room in Gush Katif, out marched a group of weeping children. Their hands were held up, and each one was wearing the yellow star with the word “jude”...
Jewish ingratitude
#1 I don’t know if Paul Krugman reads Cross-Currents or what, but that far-left NY Times writer had a column today seemingly in reply to my post of a few weeks ago.
Bush Won Florida in 2000
On August 5, I wrote, http://www.cross-currents.com/archives/2005/08/05/comparing-our-troubles-to-theirs/ Myth has it that if the recount had been allowed to continue, Gore would have won. The NY Times and the Miami Herald (both of which endorsed Gore)...