Clik here to view.
Mutual tolerance on gay issues requires both extremes
A healthy democracy should protect gay rights while tolerating a principled, not bigoted, debate about sexuality as part of our identity quest. This summer, as people elsewhere quibble about the best...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Three questions pro-Israel donors should ask Hillary
It’s been a wild two weeks in American politics. The Republican Convention – filled with anger, lacking hope – bristled with blistering moments, as delegates, whipped into a frenzy by Donald Trump’s...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Trumpism: A political tendency to bully, bluster, exaggerate and demonize, in...
Last week produced yet another example of the idiocy that passes for informed debate on campus, demonstrating Progressive Trumpism in action. For months now, enlightened Americans have been walking...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Shaloha: Hawaiian ‘Zionists’ commune with their land
One’s homeland is like one’s family, the origins of so much about yourself you take for granted, that defines who you are and who you wish to be. A great summer vacation provides enough distance from...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Fight Islamism intelligently and ban the burkini ban
Violence must be fought strategically, militarily, cooperatively. Europeans should learn from Israelis while allying with Israel to fight terrorism more effectively. In a move more like French farce...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Thank an educator who influenced you – today!
Let’s start saying “thank you” now, this September, not waiting for our most cherished mentors to get ill – or worse. Last year, when the New York Historical Society launched my eleventh book, The Age...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Why do serious American Jews wear such goofy kippot?
This absurd co-branding reflects a pathological need to make Judaism accessible, digestible, hipper than we believe it actually is. Watching waves of American visitors visit my synagogue in Jerusalem,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
‘Targeted boycotts’ enable boycott boycotts
Israelis respond to love love, not tough love. To those who signed the New York Review of Books letter “For an Economic Boycott and Political Nonrecognition of the Israeli Settlements in the Occupied...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Remember this year’s martyrs on Yom Kippur
Palestinian terrorism stems from a toxic culture of demonization that is an obstacle to peace. ‘These shall I recall,” we cry during the Yom Kippur martyrology service, “and I pour out my soul within...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Today’s epidemic of little lies undermine democracy
Let’s judge the candidates by their public stands and actions, not by illegally- obtained or illegitimately-publicized private exchanges. As Americans stagger toward Election Day, with millions...
View Article