When children become targets
A headline in the New York Times today reads, “Israel’s Supporters Try to Come to Terms With the Killing of Children in Gaza”. Robert Mackey, the anti-Israel columnist who frequently credits Electronic...
View ArticleMy Son’s Kippah
My son wasn’t thrilled about attending public school. “I won’t make any friends.” “You’ll be fine.” “There won’t be any Jews.” “The neighborhood is full of Jews. Not all go to day school.” “I don’t...
View ArticleSons of Abraham
It was bound to happen. “Give it back!” my son angrily yells, as his kippah flies from one hand to the next. “Give. It. Back!” he says again, helpless, as the boys, bigger and meaner, laugh louder....
View ArticleWhy We Fight
I woke up this morning and read a rather disquieting essay from Ari Shavit titled, Is Israel Losing Its Soul? I almost want to respond bitterly, “Is the Diaspora?” “It is impossible to answer this...
View ArticleShoftim: War and Peace
“As rabbis in the Colorado Jewish Community…” begins an anti-deal letter to a local Jewish paper. It’s signed by rabbis that I respect and admire – two of which have served (or do serve) as my own. I...
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