Incendiary?
March 16, 2016
After the recent disruption and cancellation of a Donald Trump campaign event in Chicago, the media — and Trump’s Republican opponents — blamed Trump for what had transpired.
Dennis Prager
Hillary, Donald and the Nadir of American Democracy
March 1, 2016
If, as looks likely at this moment, the presidential nominees of the two major parties of the United States in 2016 will be Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, we may be witnessing the lowest point in American electoral history.
Do all believers believe in the same God?
February 17, 2016
Most Americans, including most Jews — despite the fact that so many Jews are secular — say they believe in God.
The moral and intellectual state of the Jewish left
January 6, 2016
There is at least one thing about which my critics and I can agree: The very many responses — published in the Jewish Journal and elsewhere (The Forward, Huffington Post and various blogs) — to my Dec. 4 column titled “The Torah and the Transgendered” are an excellent measure of the moral and intellectual state of the American-Jewish left.
The hate is all in one direction
December 9, 2015
In response to my latest column, “The Torah and the Transgendered,” the Jewish Journal was deluged with emails to the editor and comments on the Journal’s website.
It is a sin not to visit Israel now
November 17, 2015
If you are a Jew who cares about Israel and you have the money to pay for a ticket and a hotel room, it is a sin not to visit to Israel at this time.
Is the Jewish future bright?
November 4, 2015
As reported by Danielle Berrin in the Jewish Journal, the latest issue of Commentary Magazine is devoted to a symposium of responses by 69 “Jewish leaders, theologians, and thinkers” to the question: “What do you think will be the condition of the Jewish community 50 years from now?”
Jews’ anger at Ben Carson’s comments needs explaining
October 21, 2015
Why all the Jewish anger over Dr. Ben Carson’s comments on guns, Jews and the Holocaust?
In defense of Jewish circumcision
October 8, 2015
This past week, I was in Miami for the bris (or brit), the Jewish ritual circumcision, of my grandson. It’s a good time to offer a defense of the Jews’ most ancient ritual.
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