“The Holocaust gave the Jewish people a fifty year respite from antisemitism. I am afraid it is back again”. —Eliot Cohen,  Renowned Author, Scholar and Professor at the SAIS school at John Hopkins. Hatred. Sheer, unadulterated, potent hatred.  It is back again, in full force, and it is directed against my people in an...
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By: Sarah Stern and Kyle Shideler The Palestinian UN statehood bid — statehood without negotiations — which is now before the Security Council, is just the latest step in a never-ceasing effort by the Palestinian leadership to erase the State of Israel. This is the Two State Solution on the way to Hitler’s “Final...
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Last Friday in Cairo, a throng of thousands of Egyptians gathered in Tahrir Square, marching two miles to the Israeli embassy, proceeding to demolish a protective wall, entering and ransacking the embassy and the building, climbing up and tearing up the Israeli flag, urinating on the building, and concludingby shredding and throwing  Israeli documents...
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In a rational world, this could never have happened.  A rational world would be one in which raw emotions would be kept in check by objective analysis, reason and logic; where movements that are governed by prejudice, racism and antisemitism  would be limited by civility, (if not by the loftier emotion of empathy); and...
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Last Friday night, five members of the Fogel Family, Udi, 36, Ruthie, 35, Yoav, 11, Eldad, 4, and Hadas, 3 months, were stabbed to death by Palestinian terrorists as they were asleep in their beds in the Israeli community of Itamar,  during the Sabbath. The terrorists have been specifically linked to Fatah’s Al Aqsa...
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Last Thursday, London’s Financial Times reported that U.S. officials are worried that Iran could deploy a new generation of centrifuges. Such devices are three times faster than the centrifuges Iran relies on now, thus shortening the time needed to enrich uranium and reach nuclear weapon status. “If they were to deploy large numbers of...
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The failed cargo bomb plot in Yemen, which occurred just days before the American mid-term elections on November 2, are once again an excellent microcosm of the problems facing America and the West. The bombs were found only after two cargo planes had been intercepted, one in Dubai and one in England, and after...
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As the attention of much of the United States has been primarily focused, due to today’s elections, on domestic issues, as well as on the sardonic Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert non-rally-rally on the National Mall, the foreign policy stage remains deadly serious. Yet, we as a nation have lost our focus. First and...
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(A version of this article also appears in today’s Washington Jewish Weekly) Jerusalem- I am sitting on a terrace overlooking the Judean Hills, framing the Knesset, the Israeli Parliament building. The early morning sun has bathed the new day in a majestic splendor. My grandfather, a sweet, learned rabbi from Europe, who saw much...
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Kafka is alive and well and lives in a building in Turtle Bay, New York, called the United Nations. The United Nations had been a very noble experiment. Conceived in the midst of the earthquake to the civilized world that was the Holocaust, the premeditated, systematic attempted total annihilation of the European Jewish community,...
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