
Wayward Jewish Minds
The Jewish state seems to be out of crisis. That’s good for Israelis. But the same cannot be said of the Jewish people—and surely not Jewish Americans and European Jewry.
Thane Rosenbaum is a novelist, essayist, law professor and Distinguished University Professor at Touro University, where he directs the Forum on Life, Culture & Society. He has written numerous works of fiction and nonfiction and hundreds of essays in major national and global publications. He is the legal analyst for CBS News Radio and appears regularly on cable TV news programs. His most recent book is entitled, “Beyond Proportionality: Israel's Just War in Gaza."
The Jewish state seems to be out of crisis. That’s good for Israelis. But the same cannot be said of the Jewish people—and surely not Jewish Americans and European Jewry.
After October 7, the most ardent supporters of Hamas were found on college campuses, in the audience at concerts and performing on musical stages.
If the Democratic Party retains its time-honored hold on the city electorate, the next Hizzoner will be an avowed Jew-hater.
President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu both saw the ayatollahs for what they are: trash-talking theocrats who roguishly financed and fomented terrorism around the world.
If only the mullahs had realized what a bad idea October 7 truly was.
It’s high noon, which means it’s high time to surrender the feel-good fairy dust of tikkun olam and embrace the hard-bitten historical reality of the O.K. Corral.
Trump’s hubris may have met his match in foreign affairs, where his ambitions are many and his experience sparse.
Thunderous gaslighting language eventually lit the match that materialized into senseless murder outside a Jewish museum.
My overall experience at Harvard, and then Columbia where I transferred for my sophomore year, has been lousy. And that’s why I am writing you now.
Somewhere along the way we settled into the pathologically treacherous vise grip of American mediocrity.