96 The Bennett family’s grace trumps its rivals’ gracelessness View this email in your browser The Jerusalem Post 16/06/2021 The Bennett family’s grace trumps its rivals’ gracelessness When Naftali Bennett requested “support for the Unity Government … to restore stability and functionality to the …
No ceasefire in Palestinian anti-Americanism
Chants of “America is the head of the snake” welcomed U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken to the Palestinians’ working capital of Ramallah last week. Considering that the dictatorial Palestinian Authority runs Ramallah, this protest against “receiving the enemies of the Palestinian people on our …
An Open Letter to the Jewish People About Birthright-Israel and Israel Education
On May 25, the first Taglit Birthright-Israel participants since the pandemic’s outbreak landed at Ben-Gurion airport. The Covid-19 crisis confirmed many of Birthright’s essential values. In our isolation, we all felt the anguish of the loneliness Birthright counters with group trips and community consciousness. Ideologically, …
Welcome to Israel, the work in progress – opinion
Dear Ls… On Shabbat, you announced at your son’s bar mitzvah that you’re making Aliyah, moving to Israel…. Are you crazy? Didn’t you notice the 4,000 rockets Hamas fired at us? Didn’t you learn to run away from rocket-fire not toward it? Moreover: What kind …
Israel Apartheid: The Big Black-and-White Lie
What is it about Jews and race? In the 1930s, Hitler and others on the racist right demonized European Jews for being racially inferior. Today, Human Rights Watch (HRW) and others on the anti-racist left demonize Israeli Jews for acting racially superior. But injecting “race” into …
Jews for liberal values: Critical thought not thought control – opinion
I plead guilty in Woke Court: I am a thought criminal. In the 1980s, Philip Roth championed Eastern European dissidents who circulated their work secretly via Samzidat, from person-to-person. This weekend, I secured Philip Roth’s biography via Samzidat American-style, borrowing it from my brother: the …
Meron tragedy is a reminder that the haredim are part of us – opinion
There are no silver linings, hidden blessings, or gifts from God in the Mount Meron catastrophe. Forty-five lives have been lost unnecessarily. Hundreds of people, including heroic first responders, have been needlessly injured and traumatized. But as we share stories of the camp friend whose …
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 the Great American College Con; most will strain themselves financially so professors can trash their values ideologically. Call it “wokeness,” “political correctness,” or “Critical Race …
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