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."
With each passing year, there are fewer surviving witnesses. And Holocaust memory—whether in diminished Yom HaShoah commemorations or the transgressive ways it has been trivialized or transformed into kitsch—has lost the solemnity it once had.
Criminal laws are written by legislatures. District attorneys are charged with enforcing them. They are required to uphold the rule of law, and not serve as the enablers of lawlessness.
COVID-19’s viral load has already spread into 2022 and brought with it another wave of grim tidings.
While speaking with an Israeli journalist from Axios, Trump trafficked in antisemitic tropes and reinforced pernicious stereotypes. Had he directed his remarks at people of color instead of Jews, it would have been a much bigger story.
Blurting out the first thought that comes to mind is now a global habit, one without borders, filters or, apparently, any hesitation. Mouths just erupt with slanders and stereotypes.
Without the rioting, Rittenhouse would have remained anonymous. Instead, he became a symbol of vigilante justice.
Obsequious groveling to please progressives comes with a huge cost. Continue to empower them, let them set your agenda and fashion your policies, and you will lose more elections.
Powell not only spoke Yiddish. He had also assisted Jews in the time-honored tradition as a Shabbos goy—performing tasks on Saturday that religious Jews cannot perform for themselves, such as turning off lights, shutting down stoves, turning up air-conditionings.
Are these celebrities all so sure that anyone would hide them should there be another roundup of Jews, like what happened to their people a mere 80 years ago?
The magical Iron Dome, that miracle air-defense system that protects Israel from rocket-launching neighbors, apparently also works wonders when threatened by the wearer of a designer dress laced with the graffiti art of the progressive left.