One hundred forty-three days ago, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu betrayed his own principles – and …
Director Peter Glenville Was a Brilliant Artist, a Conservative—and in the Closet in 1960’s Hollywood
I am supposed to call Peter Glenville a gay director who was also a conservative …
HOTOVELY’S FAUX PAS: TELLING THE TRUTH ABOUT AMERICAN JEWS
What Germans might call the Hotovely-Americanische Judische-wort-gewitter – Hotovely’s American Jewish verbal thunderstorm – has …
#METOO’S SECOND STAGE: PUNISHING PROPORTIONALLY, NOT PURGING
‘How can we continuing singing his tunes when we know Shlomo Carlebach sexually harassed women,” …
The Builder of World’s ‘Eighth Wonder’ Who Died of Stress
The Holland Tunnel, which stresses out many of the 35 million drivers who pass through it annually, …
BEWARE OF THE NEW BDS: ‘BIBI DERANGEMENT SYNDROME’
We recently hosted a Shabbat dinner for some Christians visiting Jerusalem. Many described the Israel …
WE DON’T NEED NO BALFOUR DECLARATIONS… OR CELEBRATIONS
As a historian, I appreciate the Balfour declarations – plural. As a proud Zionist, however, …
An Open Letter to Rabbi Rick Jacobs – Celebrating Birthright
Read on Haaretz: https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/1.820871 Dear Rabbi Jacobs, Although we only met briefly once, I …
The Casting Couch Perverts Who Peddled Fairy Tales
The Casting Couch is as old as Hollywood and as inescapable as bad reviews. Journalists …
ZIONIST ‘SHLICHIM’ SHOULD BE AS CHABAD ‘SHLUCHIM’
I recently spoke to an Israeli friend dispatched to the US to be a shaliach, …