96 Meron tragedy is a reminder that the haredim are part of us – opinion View this email in your browser The Jerusalem Post 05/05/2021 Meron tragedy is a reminder that the haredim are part of us – opinion There are no silver …
Today’s Students Must Become Anti-Propagandists | Opinion
96 Today’s Students Must Become Anti-Propagandists | Opinion View this email in your browser Newsweek 28/04/2021 Today’s Students Must Become Anti-Propagandists | Opinion Now that a new class of high school students has been accepted to college, many parents will need to face …
Aging past his prime, Netanyahu is ‘jumping the shark’ – opinion
“Jumping the shark” has come to mean a long-running franchise revealing inadvertently that it is past its prime. The phrase originated when Fonzie in “Happy Days” jumped over a shark in water skis – and the TV-sitcom went downhill from there, losing its focus, its …
Israel education as a personal journey toward meaning
The pedagogy of ‘Identity Zionism’ offers a richer and more affirmative lens through which to view Israel education
“I am a Zionist”: Our Herzlian Jew-Jitsu Moments Twenty Years Ago
“I am a Zionist.” That phrase has inspired me my entire life. Yet, on Israel’s Independence Day in 2001, when I published those words in the Montreal Gazette, it changed my life. This was my Theodor Herzl Moment — the turning point when I came out …
Jews must revive pride in the label ‘Zionist’ – opinion
Twenty years ago, as Yasir Arafat turned many of his people from negotiations back toward terror, I wrote an 800-word essay in the Montreal Gazette “I am a Zionist” that changed my life. It was my Herzl moment: I went from being a proud but …
Zionism: New Goal
Twenty years ago, I wrote an 800-word essay “I am a Zionist” that literally changed my life, coming out as a Zionist activist as the terrorism against Israel built. Thanks to Noam Weissman and the super-talented people at OpenDor Media the essay has been updated and …
Just Decades After the Holocaust, the Woke Mob Targets Jews and America
Commemorating Yom HaShoah — Holocaust Remembrance Day — in New York always felt vaguely foreign, even un-American, to me. Heavily-accented, emotionally-scarred Europeans would describe the dark days in that dark continent, forgetting that we were different. We American Jews lived in the land of light, …
My father, my 91-year-old COVID-19 hero – opinion
My father, Bernard Dov Troy (once Troyansky), turns 91 this Shabbat – but I won’t be with him to celebrate and give him one of those awkward-Jewish-man-hugs. The last time I visited my dad was the day after my mother’s shiva in March, 2020. We …
Netanyahu keeps saving Israel’s Left from the Right – opinion
Dear Bibi, We, the members of SIC, the Sane (but Stressed) Israeli Center, thank you. Your narcissism, your confusion between your needs and the state’s, saved Israel from a fanatic, ultra-religious-ultra-right coalition with a Kahanist tic that could have ruined Israel’s delicate internal equilibrium. Your …