JEWISH LIGHT EDITORIAL
• Published August 22, 2019
Last week, Israel was all over the news, in media outlets around the globe. Unfortunately, the story capturing the world’s attention was Israel’s abrupt decision to deny entry to Democratic Reps. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Ilhan Omar of Minnesota....
For Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., and Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., their timing couldn’t be any better. They are reveling in the victim status that they have achieved due to their confrontation with President Donald Trump, in which he said that the pair...
By Eric Berger, Staff Writer
• Published March 22, 2017
Over the past two years, the Anti-Defamation League, a national nonprofit dedicated to combating anti-Semitism, has been incredibly busy, particularly in Missouri, responding to:• Desecration at Chesed Shel Emeth Cemetery, where 154 headstones were...
Response to editorialIn response to your editorial “A Bad, Divisive Strategy” (March 15), I will try to be brief and begin by giving a synopsis of how the Israeli media summarized the anti-BDS (boycott, divestment and sanctions) law targeted by your...
Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens has joined AJC’s Governors United Against BDS initiative, a bipartisan collective of governors from across the country united in rejecting the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement and in reaffirming support for...
The Israeli Knesset last Monday quietly passed an ill-conceived bill that is inconsistent with the democratic values of the Jewish State.The legislation bars entry into Israel by persons who have publicly supported the boycotts, divestments and sanctions...
Jewish Light Editorial
• Published September 28, 2016
“Turning and turning in the widening gyre. The falcon cannot hear the falconer. Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.”—W. B. Yeats; “The Second Coming,” 1919 Jeremy Corbyn, described by conservative...
BY ROBERT A. COHN, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
• Published September 15, 2016
To refer to Michael Medved as a Renaissance Man or jack of many trades would be an understatement.Medved, 67 and a popular radio host, published his first bestseller at age 26. His “Michael Medved Show” airs on 300 radio stations nationwide and in...
Jewish Light Editorial
• Published August 10, 2016
Fifty Black Lives Matter movement groups have just committed a genocide on the English language.See what we did there? We casually used a highly charged and extremely serious word — “genocide” — to describe a gross rhetorical inaccuracy.Yet that...
CHICAGO — On June 16, the New Jersey Assembly is expected to have a final vote on a bill restricting the state’s dealings with companies that boycott Israel. The measure, S1923/A925, would have the Garden State join the nine states that have already...
“Tell me thy company, and I’ll tell thee what thou art.”— Miguel de CervantesIf the reports this week are true that Hamas supplied weapons and other support to ISIS in its assaults that killed dozens in the Egyptian Sinai, then what shreds of...
While time will tell the full story, initial actions bode well for the leadership of Sadiq Khan, the first member of his Muslim faith to become mayor of London, particularly as relates to his relationship with the city’s Jewish population. Khan is,...
