Rabbi Shmuley Boteach is the founder of The World Values Network. He is also what The Washington Post calls “the most famous Rabbi in America” who served as Rabbi to Oxford University for 11 years. The international best-selling author of 30 books, he is also the winner of the London Times Preacher of the Year competition. His latest book is “Lust for Love,” co-authored with Pamela Anderson. He is on Twitter @RabbiShmuley.
What is critical for the increasingly frayed relationship between African-Americans and Jews is that we not allow people like Whoopi Goldberg and Kanye West to be its spokespeople. Blacks and Jews are, and always were, brothers and sisters. How did we allow it to come to this?”;td_smart_list_h”;h1
The Jewish community has a right to expect that the most highly-rated cable host in America would at least do better than Adidas and hold Kanye to account.
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?
Gigi and Bella Hadid are two of the great antisemitic hypocrites of our time. For years they have leveraged their massive Instagram followings to foment hatred of Israel and falsely accuse Israel of war crimes.
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.
Any mention of his father to the Prime Minister immediately evokes laser-like focus. Netanyahu was famous for his devotion to his father who throughout his life, like the Prime Minister himself, displayed convictions of steel and was larger than life. The Prime Minister asked me if I had the videotapes of his father’s three speeches. I said I believe I could find them.
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.
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