In Praise of the Judeo-Christian Idea
Is there a “Judeo-Christian” tradition, or is the very notion an insult to zealous believers in each of those two faiths? Is there a common platform of real substance, or was the idea invented...
Cross-Currents Blog
Loony Tooner
Cartoons employing anti-Semitic tropes became a thing again last week. The memory of the New York Times International Edition’s offering of a Portuguese cartoonist’s depiction of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a dog,...
We Must Distance Ourselves From the President’s Remarks
I will say it straight out. The President should not have told members of The Squad to go back to where they came from. It is disappointing that he used language that – whatever...
Federation Blues
When a media offering chooses to not identify a quoted speaker, it loses a bit of credibility. But the words attributed to several unnamed Jewish federation leaders in a recent report in the Israeli...
Rabbi Rafi Peretz on Assimilation and Intermarriage
Israeli Education Minister Rabbi Rafi Peretz was recently attacked by non-Orthodox leaders for describing assimilation and intermarriage in the US as a “second Holocaust”. Here is Coalition for Jewish Values’ reaction to the attacks...
Point / Counterpoint: Is the Equality Act Good for the Jews?
Rabbi Michael Broyde takes issue with my earlier portrayal of the Equality Act and offers a contrary approach, with my response.
Baffled by Batson
On a summer morning back in 1996, someone entered a furniture store in Winona, Mississippi and shot four people to death. The prime suspect was a man named Curtis Flowers, who had been fired...
Vaccination Proclamation
The threats and vulgarities bellowed by several visibly Orthodox Jews at members of the New York State Assembly in Albany after it narrowly passed a measure ending religious exemptions for immunizations were ugly and...
Response to Rabbi Adam Starr and Young Israel of Toco Hills
My recent Yated article about Young Israel of Toco Hills (YITH) seceding from National Council of Young Israel (NCYI) elicited quite a firestorm on social media, to put it mildly. I would like to briefly address...
Love, Hate and the Holocaust
Considering that a survey last year revealed that 31 percent of Americans, and 41 percent of millennials, believe that two million or fewer Jews were killed in the Holocaust, and that 41 percent of...
