This summer Hillary Clinton denounced the boycott movement against Israel, charming the media mogul Haim Saban and other pro-Israel Democratic donors. But Saban and company should beware, especially considering her recently released email exchanges with the Clinton consigliere Sidney Blumenthal. Secretary of State Clinton’s tolerance …
‘Laboratories for life’ – the future of Israeli Zionism
Hoping to encourage more religious officers, the mechina prepped for what the IDF calls “a full and meaningful army service.” ‘This isn’t a one-way lecture or a silent library,” Rav Bentsy told the too-polite parents of some 100 18-year-olds who had crowded into a beit …
Ta-Nehisi Coates Gets Daniel Patrick Moynihan All Wrong
Mass incarceration was a response to a huge crime wave that the academic predicted and tried to prevent. He’s no more responsible for what happened than a doctor who diagnoses a disease. In this month’s 17,000 word Atlantic cover story, Ta-Nehisi Coates delivers a poignant but misleading …
Carly Fiorina Could Defeat Hillary Clinton—By Channeling Her
Last night was her audition for the role of Clinton conquerer If Carly Fiorina ends up on the Republican ticket, her stellar performance at the Reagan Library will become a new American political legend. Her one-liners will rank with Lloyd Bentsen’s “You’re no Jack Kennedy” …
The Iran deal hangover
Merely possessing such destructive power goes a long way. President Barack Obama won: Congress won’t stop the Iran nuclear cave-in. The United States and Europe will soon lift the economic sanctions. Iran will continue spreading terrorism – on steroids, bankrolled by $150 billion extra and …
A New Year’s wish: Thriving, not just surviving
In this new Jewish year, I wish everyone the kind of luck I had last summer. Not to plunge into any abyss, of course, metaphoric or real. But if you fall, be lucky enough to fall well.
Labor’s Lost Love
Bloat and corruption brought U.S. unions to near a 100-year low. Here on the holiday the movement gave us, it’s time to ask: Can labor win back Americans’ hearts?
A magical, mystical, whimsical list of school supplies
These magical, whimsical school supplies for all ages could make school the mind-expanding and soul-stretching experience it should be rather than a mind-narrowing and soul-deadening ordeal.
Intermarrying rabbis: A US Jewish trainwreck?
Today, even the engaged intermarry. Many campus Jews who attend Shabbat services or defend Israel nevertheless date non-Jews.
Stop Schumering Schumer and Shapiro – Debate civilly
The leftist smears against Democratic Senator Charles Schumer for daring to oppose the Iran deal, calling him disloyal, warmongering and seduced by Jewish money, should inspire a new verb.