96 Trump, Capitol riot show dangers of violating invisible values – opinion View this email in your browser The Jerusalem Post 13/01/2021 Trump, Capitol riot show dangers of violating invisible values – opinion Three hundred American historians and constitutional scholars just signed a …
Joe Biden should help Americans rediscover the ‘Four Freedoms’
I wrote this before last week’s horrific riots but note the contrast: on Jan 6 1940 a real president a real leader articulates the 4 freedoms for all and brings out the best in us – and on Jan 6 2020 the most unpresidential president …
Center Field: Jewish genius appreciates genius Jews
With Coronavirus vaccines on our minds and in more and more Israeli bodies, we return to a perennial mystery that thrills Jew-haters but unnerves many American Jews – although it should thrill American Jews and unnerve Jew-haters. With articles noting that Pfizer’s head scientist Mikael …
Ahead of Israel elections, the political outliers are the heroes – opinion
Question: How do you know it’s election time in Israel? Answer: When you stop thinking about politics and spend your time obsessively doing basic arithmetic in your head. You pass your makolet – your corner store. You spy a Ma’ariv headline predicting 26 votes for …
A moral Zionist agenda for Joe Biden’s administration – opinion
As Joe is Biden his time before Inauguration Day, Zionists should wonder, “how can the next administration” – dare I say it – “trump this one’s Middle Eastern accomplishments?” Clearly, the pro-Israel community should thank President Donald Trump and his foreign policy team for three …
Natan Sharansky’s real-life Hanukkah fairy tale – opinion
For those of us born free, we mouth the words “Hanukkah’s-the-holiday-of-freedom” but don’t really know what it means. The only time I tasted what it was like to be free was after three weeks of unfreedom visiting Refuseniks in the former Soviet Union for Pesach. …
Natan Sharansky and Irwin Cotler: ‘Mr. No’ and ‘Getting to Yes’
My wife jokes that the two reasons she failed to learn constitutional law at McGill University’s law school are named Irwin Cotler and Natan Sharansky. In the mid-1980s, Cotler, her constitutional law professor, was busy flying to Moscow and missing lectures in an effort to …
The secret to Birthright’s success fighting intermarriage? It doesn’t fight intermarriage
Brandeis University’s Jewish Futures Project just released a blockbuster report following-up on Birthright Israel’s first decade of applicants that should have had Jews united in celebration. Long-term tracking of Birthright alumni shows that judging by eighteen key criteria of positive Jewish involvement, from feeling connected to …
Obama’s memoir: The anatomy of Iran-appeasers and bash-Israel-firsters
I was reading Barack Obama’s memoir, A Promised Land , as the Politically Correct response to the assassination of Iran’s leading nuclear scientist congealed. “IRANIAN SCIENTIST’S KILLING,” PBS’s graphic proclaimed. The New York Times tweeted that “Iranian officials… have always maintained that their nuclear ambitions are for …
Don’t give Pollard a hero’s welcome – or Trump a hero’s send-off – opinion
Jonathan Pollard may soon move to Israel. For decades, I endorsed the release of this clearly-guilty yet abusively-punished spy whose sustained imprisonment I called “the worst act of official American anti-Semitism in our lifetimes.” Still, I hope Israelis and the government control themselves. Don’t give …