Elusive bipartisanship
A year after a mob broke into the U.S. Capitol in an attack that overwhelmed law enforcement, posed a threat to lawmakers debating the presidential...
The option of civil marriage
Late last year, something happened in the United Arab Emirates that never happened before in that Gulf state, yet it attracted little attention: A...
A challenge to Israel’s rabbinate
Israel is the homeland of the Jewish people. All Jews. But not all Jews have the same beliefs, observances and customs. It is not...
Plans to settle the Golan
In a move early last week that attracted very little international attention, Israel’s Prime Minister Naftali Bennett announced that his government plans to invest...
Build back differently
In the days following West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin’s televised announcement that he was pulling the plug on passage of the Build Back Better...
AIPAC’s new PACs
The snappy acronym AIPAC has confused as often as not. Since it was formed in the 1950s, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee has...
Banging our heads against a wall
Diaspora Jewry is frustrated by the Israeli government’s recurring delay in implementing the Kotel compromise. Like a driver pushing on the gas pedal of...
Rand Paul, the unrepentant hypocrite
For the pro-Israel community, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) has been a recurring problem. He opposes foreign aid and seeks to block or limit it...
Separation of church and school?
In largely rural Maine, some school districts don’t have enough students to justify creating a public high school. So, in order to guarantee that...
A French shande
Recently announced French presidential candidate Éric Zemmour is an ultranationalist, right-wing pundit, who is anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant and pro-fascist. He is also Jewish.
Without that last...
