96 Center Field: Rabbis not supporting the war against Hamas are acting irresponsibly View this email in your browser The Jerusalem Post 13.03.2024 Center Field: Rabbis not supporting the war against Hamas are acting irresponsibly Jewish history resounds with noble leaders taking responsibility. …
Herzog’s Responsibility Zionism: The way to save Israeli politics – opinion
96 Herzog’s Responsibility Zionism: The way to save Israeli politics – opinion View this email in your browser The Jerusalem Post 06.03.2024 Herzog’s Responsibility Zionism: The way to save Israeli politics – opinion It’s infuriating. Most Israelis want a new, mutually respectful politics …
American policymakers have ideological blinders on – opinion
96 American policymakers have ideological blinders on – opinion View this email in your browser The Jerusalem Post 28.02.2024 American policymakers have ideological blinders on – opinion Israeli and American policymakers keep speaking at cross-purposes. Even as the munitions continue to flow – …
Bibi-bashers risk reenergizing Bibi’s base – opinion
96 Bibi-bashers risk reenergizing Bibi’s base – opinion View this email in your browser The Jerusalem Post 21.02.2024 Bibi-bashers risk reenergizing Bibi’s base – opinion Those of us yearning for a mature, realistic debate about the hostages , and a more patriotic, constructive approach …
American Jews Must Mobilize America’s Silenced Pro-Israel Majority
96 American Jews Must Mobilize America’s Silenced Pro-Israel Majority View this email in your browser Jewish Journal 14 .02.2024 American Jews Must Mobilize America’s Silenced Pro-Israel Majority Four months after October 7, American Jews are still reeling. Polls find American Jews feeling threatened …
Exercising goodness muscles in a marathon – opinion
96 Exercising goodness muscles in a marathon – opinion View this email in your browser The Jerusalem Post 07.02.2024 Exercising goodness muscles in a marathon – opinion A Dead Sea marathon amid two wars, north and south – sounds crazy, no? But in …
Netanyahu is not Sinwar but must go home – Opinion
With each week, Israelis’ post-October 7 pledge to avoid politics weakens. We face many searing, complex decisions demanding robust debate. Actually, we just need to avoid returning to the politics of October 6. Perhaps we learned some lessons from the insane divisiveness and demonization that …
Confronting American Jewish Leadership
“Why did you blurb that book?” a friend who leads a major Jewish organization recently asked. He, predictably, disliked the hard-hitting anthology Betrayal: The Failure of American Jewish Leadership , edited by Charles Jacobs and Avi Goldwasser. The introduction, 21 essays, and an epilogue launch …
Can Zionism Save Academia?
Academics love maligning Zionism as racist, imperialist, settler-colonialist. But Oct. 7 woke up many Americans. The professoriate’s stunningly amoral response to the Hamas rampage exposed academia’s moral rot. Harvard’s Claudine Gay lost her presidency only when a plagiarism scandal undermined her academic credibility – equivocating …
Idan Amedi for Prime Minister of Israel
Last week’s explosion that killed six combat engineers also wounded the singer-songwriter Idan Amedi. The 35-year-old married Fauda star and father of two could have avoided combat, having served honorably when younger. Or, he could have joined other entertainers in the holy work of morale-boosting – …