The Political Temperature

From David Harsanyl at The Federalist, The Left’s Response To The Mass Shooting Of Jews Is An Act Of Bad Faith: If you think Trump should bring down the temperature, you have a point. If you think Trump should turn down the temperature but you fail to mention that a...

Trump and the Jews

From David Harsanyl at The Federalist, The Left’s Response To The Mass Shooting Of Jews Is An Act Of Bad Faith: Every Jew who’s ever prayed understands the importance of Jerusalem in our faith, culture, and history. It was President Trump, not any of the other...

Tree of Life

My first wife, Renee Saroff Oliner, died of cancer at age 42 in 1995. She came from the Squirrel Hill section of Pittsburg and her family were members of the Tree of Life Synagogue. I have attended Bar Mitzvahs for my nieces and nephews there as well as funerals,...

Identity Politics is Racist

from Jonah Goldberg at National Review, Why Racism Begets More Racism You can come up with as many polysyllabic explanations as you like for why it’s okay for you to mock, demonize, or ridicule white people. You can prattle on to your Ph.D. adviser’s content about how...

ADL Mission Creep

from the WSJ,  Is Brett Kavanaugh Bad for the Jews? by Liel Liebovitz: You hardly have to be a national organization dedicated to fighting anti-Semitism to realize that the threats to Jews these days come as fiercely from the left as they do from the right. When...

The Saturation Point

from The Jerusalem Post, HOW A PRO-PALESTINIAN AMERICAN REPORTER CHANGED HIS VIEWS ON ISRAEL AND THE CONFLICT by Hunter Stuart: For example, after the November 2015 ISIS shootings in Paris that killed 150 people, a colleague of mine ‒ an educated 27-year-old...