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Has The New York Times Lost Faith in America?
96 Has The New York Times Lost Faith in America? View this email in your browser The Jew ish Journal 12/02/2020 Has The New York Times Lost Faith in America? Elie Wiesel always carried his U.S. passport. Justice Hugo Black kept a copy …
The Promise of the Trump Peace Plan
96 The Promise of the Trump Peace Plan View this email in your browser The W all Street Journal 11/02/2020 The Promise of the Trump Peace Plan It would bypass corrupt and dictatorial Palestinian leaders who have stalled the process since 1993. By Natan …
DEAR LOUIS FARRAKHAN (YOU DON’T DESERVE ‘MINISTER’ TITLE)
This may be the first thank-you letter you’ve ever received in The Jerusalem Post, but you’ve performed an important public service. You’ve given a gift to the often-quarreling Jewish people. You’ve outed Progressive hypocrites and Jewish apologists. You’ve imposed moral clarity on an issue that …
THE TWO MEN WHO EMBODIED THE JEWISH FUTURE
Coincidentally, Rabbi Wilfred Shuchat, the spiritual leader of Montreal’s Congregation Shaar Hashomayim from 1946 to 1993, and Amos Oz, Israel’s great novelist, died within hours of each other in late December. Looking at both their lives illuminates the Jewish people’s two great responses to the …
A ZIONIST AGENDA FOR ISRAEL’S 2019 ELECTIONS
Israel’s election campaign just began and we’re already exhausted. The issues are thorny; the candidates, prickly and silly. But while grumbling, nitpicking, arguing, handicapping and, ultimately voting – it’s worth dreaming too. What do we as Zionists want from the Zionist parties? Yes, democracy is …
POISONED FRUIT: SETTLER YOUTHS’ UNPATRIOTIC, ANTI-ZIONIST VIOLENCE IS EVIL
While our politicians’ Bibi-Bennett-Ayelet, Goodbye Gabbay and Tzipi, Hello Gantz and Glick childish antics are demoralizing, the settler youths’ unpatriotic, anti-Zionist violence is evil. We cannot denounce terrorism committed against us but not by some of us. It doesn’t matter where you stand regarding the …
I CALLED OUT ALICE WALKER’S JEW-HATRED AGAIN, AND SHE CONFIRMED IT – AGAIN
Last week, the Alice Walker antisemitism controversy shifted from the New York Times to the History News Network (HNN). This time, legendary novelist Walker and a historian stooge proved downright Trumpian in doubling-down on offensive insults and displaying a stunning inability to see how others …
DIARY OF A NON-MAD ZIONIST: ISRAELI ZIONISM IN 3D
Last week, at my latest Zionist Salon, trying to launch a new conversation about Zionist Ideas to celebrate Israel’s 70th anniversary – this time in Hebrew at Jerusalem’s Menachem Begin Center – someone asked: “the four of you are talking about Zionism – but where …
TO REINVIGORATE ZIONISM, ‘Z3’ SHOULD BUILD ‘IDENTITY ZIONISM’ FIRST
Beware, woe-is-me worriers mourning an Israel-Diaspora rupture – good news! Last week 1,100 people gathered in Palo Alto – yes, in California – to talk Zionism. The idea – spearheaded by the Oshman Family JCC’s Zach Bodner and Tel Aviv’s Reut Institute – was to …