Whose Lives Matter? The Media on Israel and Ferguson
The Media is complicit in racial divides by providing hate-mongers like Sharpton & Zogby a platform.
View ArticleBeware of the Ultras
For those who identify as observant Jews, as children of Torah, and as students of the sages, it is inexcusably perverse to embrace the tactics of the street in order to defend a lifestyle of spiritual...
View ArticleThe Aftermath of Abuse
What effect do the proliferation of sex-scandals have on our culture? As with so many things, there’s good and there’s bad. The real question is: which outweighs the other?
View ArticleHe Gave Peace a Chance
The greatest impediment to peace is often the will to make peace. Like it or not, we have to share our world with others who see the world differently, who have their own desires and dreams, who...
View ArticleMy Son, the Lone Soldier
People ask if I’m worried about my son, a lone soldier in the Israeli army. Most of them don’t understand my answer: "All in all, I think he’s safer than he’s ever been"
View ArticleOpen Your Eyes
Look into the darkness, to search for the source of faithful illumination that can guide us along the path of spiritual integrity. The flames of the Chanukah menorah shine bright out of the deepest...
View ArticleThe Quagmire of Manipulation
Love him or hate him, you have to admire Donald Trump’s genius for manipulating the media. What’s even more impressive is the way he’s been beating them at their own game.
View ArticleThe Ethical Indignity of Governmental Gridlock
After a seemingly endless parade of financial, political, and sexual scandals, we finally arrived at the most ignominious one of all: this week’s government shutdown.
View ArticleWhen Pigs have Rings
There is a reason why we say when in Rome, do as the Romans do. It’s not merely to avoid draconian penalties for what we consider minor offenses. It’s because good manners dictate that a guest shows...
View ArticleThe Long, Shorter Path
I propose a new adage based on a recent study: Depression is good for you. No, not that kind of depression. Economic depression – as in the Great Depression.
View ArticleSpeaking of Freedom
Beginning this Friday evening, we celebrate a revolution that changed the world 3330 years ago. Mankind awoke to a new reality as headlines around the world reported how a small and downtrodden people...
View ArticlePolitical Correctness: The Lobotomy of the American Mind
Inevitably, the culture of thought-policing has affected college students the same way radar-equipped patrol cars affect traffic. Everyone slows downs and tries to blend in, determined not to take any...
View ArticleJerusalem Day
As long as we remember all Jerusalem stands for, we will carry her in our hearts and in our minds wherever we go, wherever we are
View ArticleDon’t Forget to Remember
It’s downright shameful that most of us don’t give more than a passing thought to Memorial Day. What could be more important than remembering the principles of freedom and those who sacrificed to...
View ArticleThe Peril of Prejudice: How to be Wrong, even When you’re Right
So let’s get this straight: the owner credits herself with heroism for making herself uncomfortable by asking Huckabee Sanders to leave thereby sparing her employees discomfort by refusing service to...
View ArticleDon’t Become the Stranger in the Mirror
Our phones and computers can be gateways to inexhaustible knowledge and wisdom. Too often, however, they are distractions from reality, blurring the lines between the world as it is and the world as we...
View ArticleThe Cost of Indifference
How progressive innovation gave rise to discord and vigilantism
View ArticleThe Appearance of Propriety
What the Kavanaugh imbroglio teaches us about dignity and justice
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