On February 25, 1994, Baruch Goldstein, armed and wearing his reserve uniform, walked into Hebron’s Cave of the Patriarchs and found a room in which […]
Category: Current events
Jenna Ortega did the right thing. Will others?
In December, two articles appeared here asking which type of antisemitism was more dangerous for Jews: the kind promoted by Kanye West or Jenna Ortega. The comparison […]
Jenna Ortega becomes Hamas poster child, Jewish organizations silent
Jenna Ortega, the American actress who rose to fame as Wednesday Addams on the eponymous Netflix series, has become – literally – a poster child for Hamas via their Quds News Network.
Neither the Democrats nor MAGA won yesterday
Yesterday was bad for Democrats. They won, or, at least, they didn’t lose as badly as expected (results still too close to call), probably maintaining […]
Biden’s tweet reveals dangerous policies
For the duration of former President Donald Trump’s term, the news media constantly highlighted his low-brow, stream-of-consciousness tweets. Given that they represented a direct insight […]
Team Biden vs. Manchin: the Democrats’ suicidal impulse
The problem isn’t Joe Manchin. Perhaps the biggest campaigners for the Republicans in 2022 and 2024 will turn out to be America’s top Democrats. It […]
Endangering Arabs to spite Israel: the results of “progressive” demands
How are we to understand the recent efforts of the “Justice” Democrats to cut funding for military assistance to the State of Israel? To hear […]
Racist anti-racism?
Many years ago, during that terrible period before crime declined dramatically across America, I was living in an almost all-Black neighborhood in Chicago. I had […]
On its 245th birthday, America faces most uncertainty in centuries
America is 245 years old, and it’s at a crossroads. Will American democracy survive? From both the left and the right, there has come a […]
Yom HaShoah: “We fought so we could die with dignity”
Now it’s Yom HaShoah, the day when Jews around the world, in both Israel and the diaspora, commemorate the 6 million Jews slaughtered by the […]