October 27, 2017

The Big Law Firm Casting Couch

Versions of Harvey Weinstein and Hollywood's casting couch have been played out all across this country in industry after industry.  I know, because it happened to me. 

May 11, 2012

The Stealth Legitimacy of J Street

Did you know that J Street is launching a new national election-year initiative? One once couldn't be blamed for considering J Street a nonpartisan religious organization, but the time has come to lift the scales from our eyes.

February 12, 2012

Alan Dershowitz Says Media Matters Could Cost Obama the Election

Unapologetically pro-Israel Alan Dershowitz takes on noted BDS advocate Max Blumenthal.

February 3, 2012

How Many Are Thy Tents, O Jacob?


The entire community of Jewish organizations almost came to a consensus against anti-Israel propaganda this week...but one notable dissenter broke the chain.

August 14, 2011

Shoot the Jewish Senator in the Face: Not News?

If a Jew -- and a senior-ranking US Senator at that -- is targeted with violence and nobody bothers to report it, does it still count as news?

May 29, 2011

The Audacity of Reality

Obama's refusal to credit Israel's freedom as a value for Arabs is symptomatic of an epic error: the insistence on acting on political ideology rather than asking what's really best for the people on the ground.

March 15, 2011

J Street: 'Maybe Israel really ain't a good idea'

Is this clear statement by one of J Street's founders -- that if the Arabs will force Israel to defend herself, then the Jews should abandon the Middle East -- enough to prove that J Street is not "pro-Israel" at all?

March 4, 2011

Time on the J Street Ward

Psychologists teach that an obsession is "a persistent disturbing preoccupation with an often unreasonable idea or feeling."

October 10, 2010

More J Street B(D)S

Some people are still clinging to the remaining shreds of J Street's pro-Israel raiments. Time to let go.

November 5, 2009

At the J Street meeting

The Washington conference of the new organization "J Street" was a fascinating but scary cultural experience.

October 6, 2009

J Street is selling snake oil

And Members of Congress are buying it. Re-defining "peace."

September 18, 2009

A Roadmap for Terrorists

The Goldstone Commission, appointed by the President of the Human Rights Council of the United Nations to investigate...

August 2, 2009

Z street

For several years we have agonized over the gathering storm of hostility towards Israel, and the organizational human shields which eagerly validate those positions.

May 17, 2009

The Late Great State of Israel

The almost total inversion of reality to reportage on the Arab-Israeli conflict laid bare.

January 21, 2009

Barack Obama Embraces Middle East Roadmap of the Israel Policy Forum

Even before his first 100 Days in office began, President-Elect Barack Obama embraced the left-wing Israel Policy Forum's proposed "First 100 Days" roadmap for Middle East peace. 

October 29, 2008

This Jew for McCain

When PBS asked me to do an interview for a television newsweekly because I am a Jew supporting McCain, I didn't hesitate to say yes.

February 10, 2008

Schmoozing with Terrorists

The people who kill Jews and other westerners for a living would seem to be a bit hard for nice Jewish boy to sit down and chat with about why they do what they do. But that's what Aaron Klein has done, and he puts other journalists to shame with his detailed account.

December 2, 2007

The Academy Fails Again

When professors hijack their students' efforts to suit their own political agendas, and the students' agenda is obliterated by a professor's implied directive, and a university blames the entire mess on the students, what do you have?

September 23, 2007

Novice Congressman Needs to be Relieved from Duty

Congressman Joe Sestak (D-PA), a former US Navy Admiral, recently revealed that he is indifferent about the well-being of US veterans of the Iraq war, that he is either careless or clueless about domestic security concerns, and that he would be grateful if voters dumped him from office.

May 17, 2006

The Strange Partner of Brandeis University