Dr. Oz should acknowledge the Armenian genocide or he is unworthy of being a United States Senator and should withdraw from the race.

For the Jewish community, why hasn’t Dr. Oz, who has a long relationship with Erdogan, not made it clear he utterly repudiates his repulsive, nauseating and stomach-turning antisemitism?

The discussion was particularly important to me because, as everyone knows, my closest friend, Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey, had a major public brawl with me about the first Iran deal, when Cory was the decisive vote in favor of the deal in 2015.

From Pittsburgh to Poway to Jersey City to Monsey to Texas, with many painful stops in-between, American Jews are now accustomed to dead congregants, flashing police lights, and security whenever they go and pray.

As Sheldon was a dear friend whom I mourn and miss, and as I have written much about him since his passing, I wanted to pen this particular column as a stream-of-consciousness exercise that focuses on his absence.

If you’re in the Jewish community and you want to question Dr. Oz as a friend of Israel, know your facts first.

Although he left Iran in his late teens and, through the miracle of aliyah, moved to Israel with his many siblings, Iran never left him. It was a deep part of his culture, his tastes, his identity.

These are the ten most important things that I’ve gleaned as I cross into the middle of my fifth decade.