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March 19, 2025
Cultural mishaps lead to wrecked foreign policyThe kerfuffle between Presidents Zelensky and Trump in the Oval Office was a classic culture clash in a political setting. The unfortunate public scene and abrupt end to the negotiations could have been avoided if more attention had been p...
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January 24, 2024
Israel Needs More Gen Z ActivistsMy students of American politics at Touro College, Israel, conducted a non-scientific in-person survey of 106 Jews. They carried out the survey on the heels of the Iowa Republican caucuses and the 100th day of Israelis kidnapped and held i...
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April 14, 2023
It's not all bad out thereIsrael and America appear haunted by a sense of despair. The nation is locked in domestic and international political battles exacerbated by tensions between the ultra-religious and open society proponents. As Rabbi Jonathan Sac...
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March 12, 2023
How an American Fits In in IsraelTen years ago, my wife and I moved from America to Israel. As we aged, we needed a change. After a decade, we remain outliers. One can read about life in Israel and joke about its troubles, insufferable bureaucracy, and polit...
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January 8, 2023
Don't Hate Israel for Its WeaponsCapitalism came early to Israel's strategic defense and weapons industry. In the 1930s, entrepreneurs were delegated responsibility by national leaders for keeping arms and weapons flowing into the hands of Jewish freedom fighters....
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July 29, 2022
Jews as enemy aliens in BritainEighty million refugees roam the world today. We view all of them through a political lens, and the language used to label runaways reveals our biases and defines their treatment. There are 5 million (good) refugees from Ukraine. ...
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October 8, 2021
American Business Innovation Will Save UsThe American empire is not disintegrating; Americans are reassessing national values, vision, mission, and strategies. It is the regular exercise of any healthy enterprise. She still reigns supreme as the most powerful cultural, political, and ...
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March 9, 2021
A journalist hits the pavement to investigate anti-Semitism in the UK and IrelandBritish Jews went through a wrenching time recently. They struggled with anti-Semitism pervading the Labor Party. Liberal Jews wavered for a time before deciding they could no longer be one of them. Tuvia Tenenbom wanted to l...
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August 30, 2020
Why are we so unhappy with our leaders?Everyone I speak with is aghast or depressed with today's self-absorbed national political leaders across the globe. People yearn for sparkling and inspiring leaders who once lit the horizons with light and hope. Can leadership be tau...
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May 26, 2020
The rift between American Jews and IsraelCountless articles and books address the vexing rift between American Jews and Israel. They are short on solutions and long on confirmation bias. Daniel Gordis adds another tome to the pile in We Stand Divided: The Rift Between ...
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November 10, 2019
A Walk in the Lions' Den: Zionism and the LeftI was on a speaking tour discussing "When Zionism Became a Dirty Word." My wife warned me that I will be walking into a lion's den. Susie Linfield was at a pleasant, tony New York dinner party, until she realized she was i...
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August 1, 2019
How to prepare to do business with IsraelisIsrael's diplomatic successes and presence on the world stage are underpinned by the reputation of Israelis as brash, rough, but innovative entrepreneurs. The nation is a world-class business powerhouse. The culture and beha...
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May 17, 2019
How Mossad Brings Jews to ZionSome of my international university students just returned from Ethiopia. The trip is optional for gap year students learning about the Jewish people. There is a backstory to the Ethiopian Jews returning home to Zion that is mor...
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September 24, 2018
A Tribute to the Israeli Defense ForcesThe Israel Defense Forces are so much more than the picture of raw power perceived in news stories and war-centered history books. The IDF functions on a daily basis employing stealth and deception in the battle against Israel's unremi...
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August 6, 2018
Israeli Jews Are Losing Patience with the DiasporaMy wife kicks my leg under the dinner table whenever guests rail against anti-Netanyahu and Israel critics. The U.N. and college students are also favorite targets. "Save your contrarian opinions for your articles, not the ...
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December 24, 2017
Winter Holiday Music Is So JewishI'm a baby-boomer. American-born Mom was the child of Polish Jews scrapping by through the Great Depression in the land of plenty. They lost everything. Nothing went to waste ever again. We barely threw a garbage bag out o...
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November 1, 2017
An Israeli Electric Car Crash that Inspired an IndustryBusiness books, next to romance novels, are the popular genre of reads today. Totaled by Brian Blum is one of the best, detailing "how to" and "how not to" build a business, from vision through total execution. It is a...
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October 16, 2017
Letters of Love to JerusalemMY JERUSALEM: The Eternal City Ilan Greenfield, Editor Ziv Koren, Photography Published by Gefen Publishing House and Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations, 2017/5778 I love Chicago. It's the city in which I lived fr...
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May 26, 2017
The Lies They TellTuvia Tenenbom's newest book, The Lies They Tell (Gefen Publishing: 2017), is a social anthropology about America and its Jewish community. Tenenbom is a bestselling author, journalist, and dramatist holding a B.A. in mathematics and comput...
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March 8, 2017
Meet the Weapons WizardsYaakov Katz and Amir Bohbot, authors of The Weapon Wizards: How Israel Became a High-Tech Military Superpower (St. Martin's Press 2017), prove themselves to be far more than experienced and skilled military journalists. (Mr. Katz is now the...
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September 9, 2012
Slugging It Out against IsraelThe Daily Beast website covers breaking news, sex, celebrities, economics, and politics. The Beast is a beast to Israel. The keeper of the Beast is Newsweek, the iconic magazine read the world over; their website sports Vox Box, a collect...
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July 26, 2012
Romney in IsraelMitt Romney is to arrive in Israel this weekend, focusing the campaign spotlight not only on Israel policy, but on the American voters who live in Israel. I get to vote for the next American president as a new oleh, an immigrant to Israel who retains...