November 14, 2024

Compassion and Standards

This week, just after the election, my fine Rabbi gave a very conciliatory and compassionate talk. There was a lot to admire in it. He was speaking to a congregation where likely 95% of the congregants were passionate Kamala supporters. Most of them ...

June 23, 2024

Welcoming Back the Ten Commandments

Mosche Scheiner, the wise and impressive rabbi of Palm Beach synagogue, a man from the fine Lubavitcher orthodox movement, said this week “I was delighted to see that the state of Louisiana issued a bill that every public school will have to ha...

May 20, 2023

The Nice People Who Are Destroying America

Now, after a long life, I've come to understand how common it is for many basically nice, well meaning people to do terrible things in their lives.  When few — that is, on the micro-level — are involved, it may destroy famil...

February 8, 2023

Boycott despicable Disney

The Walt Disney company is now run by a bunch of despicable America-hating racists of the left.  Their leaders just put out an outrageous mendacious and vile video in order to continue indoctrinating our children into their foul, regre...

November 18, 2022

The most important issue to bloodthirsty Democrats

Dennis Prager of the universally popular Prager University on the web made a wise observation the day after the midterm elections.  It regards the key issue identified by Democrats in their decision to vote.  The second ...

May 9, 2022

Overturning Roe

The Roman historian and polytheist Tacitus considered the Jews depraved for not killing their weak, ill, or deformed babies.  He and his hard, steely cold, and immoral value system died away.  It was replaced by the Judeo-Christia...

March 8, 2022

Ritual and our lives as Americans

Dennis Prager, founder of the wildly popular five-minute internet video site Prager University, always talks about the key biblical notion of self-control: the greatest thing we need to learn to control is not others, not society, not clima...

March 3, 2022

The Wrecking Ball of American Cultural Marxism

This week, in my neighborhood, a non-orthodox rabbi and cantor sanctified in a religious ceremony the declaration of a person to be non-binary, sexless, neither male nor female.  Half of those Americans who hear this story will think it...

January 26, 2022

Mark Levin vs. the progressive professors

A history professor, Michael Kazin of Georgetown University, just wrote a blistering attack in The Nation on the best-selling book of the year, Mark Levin's American Marxism. It's titled "Haters." ...

July 27, 2021

Cuba and American Marxists

Last week, Nikole Hannah-Jones, a leader of the Marxist Democrat left and the architect of the poisonous lies of the N.Y. Times' "1619 Project," said, "The most equal multiracial country in our hemisphere is Cuba....

July 16, 2021

Pronouns as weapons against America

Culture is at the heart of any society.  The American heart and heartland are under mighty and relentless assault.  Here is a prime example: a couple of our cultural elites and leaders in my world, a prominent clergyman ...

July 30, 2020

Jews Need to Jexit from Democrat-Left Racist Poison

I am a proud American.  I am also Jewish, and equally proud.  I'm particularly proud that Judaism gifted to the world the first anti-racist notion when it said all men are created in the image of God.  Black lives in...

June 30, 2020

American Jews Must Reject the Vile Anarchy of Leftism

We barely go a day now where our fellow citizens of the left are not tearing apart one of our core Judeo-Christian American values or institutions.  America is under attack from within.  Our streets are now littered with boarded u...

June 6, 2020

Surprise, Surprise, Surprise: Capitalism in Medicine Trounces Socialism

Socialism or capitalism for health care?  We know that leftists root for the former.  They are fools to do so. I've been practicing medicine for over 30 years under various economic systems.  The V.A. I worked at ...

January 13, 2020

What 1,602 Miles Teaches about Guns

Liberalism, progressivism, Democratic Party — they represent a normal part of each of us: a normal part, but mostly a dark, enfeebling, and destructive one.  They represent the longing in each of us, to varying degrees, to remain a ch...

December 24, 2019

The Destructiveness of the Liberal Child Mind

One of the very many reasons I would never vote Left (Democrat) is because of the child-like view of the world embraced by those with this ideology.  Children, or adults with childish notions, running the world are a recipe for disaster....

November 13, 2019

Why a woman at my synagogue is terrified of white supremacy

In a Democrat Jewish synagogue with its parking lot full of fading “I’m with Her” bumper stickers, a nice, well-meaning woman said she is deeply distressed by the rise of white supremacy in America.  It shows how well-mean...

September 15, 2019

Another Jewish New Year, Another Week of Shock-and-Awe Leftism

The leaves change.  For this American Jew, it signals that the Jewish New Year is around the corner.  It reminds me that the biblical values of Judaism, along with Christianity, gave rise to this most decent and greatest of societ...

March 18, 2019

A Lesson for Our College Kids about Socialism

I'm a devoted husband, father, doctor, proud American, and serious Jew.  I'm 63 years old.  I have kids who recently graduated college.  I've been around the block a bit, experienced a lot, read and learned a...

December 21, 2018

The Anatomy of an American Jewish Deplorable

Most non-orthodox Jews in America undergo cognitive dissonance when they get to know political views of people like me.  I am a constitutional conservative, non-orthodox Jew who pulled the lever hard and strong for President Trump and would...

October 31, 2018

Pittsburgh and the second amendment

In response to the evil that came to Pittsburgh, ingratitude is already bursting out this week from Jews and other Americans from Santa Monica, Boca, Bethesda, to the Upper West Side. The Jews, like their brethren in the desert, will decry their...

June 29, 2018

Racism at Harvard: The war we fight against leftism

Two weeks ago,  the head of Harvard’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital , Elizabeth Nabel, yanked down 30 portraits from the lobby of the hospital. They are paintings of people who have made great contributions to excellence in medicine. ...

April 29, 2018

Alfie Evans, the State, and Us

You think the issue of the baby in England is just another story of individuals dealing with a personal tragedy?  You're wrong.  The story involves all of us.  It involves all of us in a very serious manner. ...

May 10, 2014

Graduation and The Decline of America

Pictures of kids in caps and gowns kids are showing up on my Facebook these weeks. Family and friends are graduating. I'm delighted but also deeply saddened how the garb reflects but a veneer of learning covering a chasm of ignorance. It spans Ha...