We have already criticized many aspects of Israel’s controversial “nation-state law,” which at its best is unnecessary and superfluous. But a closer reading reveals several clauses that have the effect of downgrading the status of Arabs and other...
I was not quite 11 years old May 14, 1948, when the Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel was read by David Ben-Gurion on the eve of Shabbat and rebroadcast the following night on my great aunt’s shortwave radio. We had just finished...
Outside of sending American troops into harm’s way, perhaps no decision by a president of the United States has more lasting potential effect than nominating a justice for the Supreme Court. When Justice Anthony Kennedy, who often has been the decisive...
A collective worldwide sigh of relief greeted the incredibly good news that after 17 days, all 12 members of the Thai soccer team and their coach, along with a brave physician, have been safely removed from deep inside a water-soaked cave in northern...
I’m conflicted. On the one hand, I am hesitant to engage with you because a response would give your rhetoric a degree of legitimacy. On the other hand, your rhetoric is so presumptive and your intentions for participating on this trip are so disingenuous...
Jewish Light Editorial
• Published October 11, 2017
With another date for action approaching, President Donald Trump has made clear he will refuse to certify that Iran is in compliance with the controversial nuclear arms deal reached under Barack Obama in 2015.That refusal would pass the issue along to...
During his campaign for the presidency, Donald Trump made it a point to seek support from the LGBT community, promising in a June 2016 tweet:“I will fight for you.”He failed to mention that he wouldn’t let transgender soldiers fight for him, or...
Faced with lopsided, veto-proof approval in both houses of Congress, President Donald Trump wisely pledged to sign into law sanctions against Russia, Iran and North Korea. He initially voiced strong opposition to the bill because it would place restrictions...
In Jerusalem, the city that houses some of the holiest sites in Judaism, Christianity and Islam, increasing violence by Palestinians against Israelis and efforts by Israel to contain the deadly crisis already have claimed the lives of at least three Israelis...
Remember that old bumper sticker that said:“It will be a great day when our schools get all the money they need and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy a bomber.”If Congress passes the federal budget proposed by the White House last week,...
Clearly, the United States has installed a new sheriff at its mission to the United Nations: Ambassador Nikki Haley, the former Republican governor of South Carolina.Not since Daniel Patrick Moynihan rose in 1975 to denounce the infamous General Assembly...
Jewish Light Editorial
• Published February 22, 2017
Never in recent memory has there been such community wide and even international revulsion over an incident like the savage desecration of the historic Chesed Shel Emeth Cemetery. Even though it was not immediately clear whether the attack was anti-Semitism...
