Bedlam and More Blood Libels
May 9, 2022
Look around. Chaos is everywhere, along with declining public confidence in just about everything.
Thane Rosenbaum
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 Duplicity and Violence of Al-Quds Day
April 25, 2022
Beginning with the Islamic Revolution in 1979, Iran has hosted a worldwide annual hate-fest against Jews, celebrated on the last Friday of Ramadan.
Corporate America’s Mary Poppins Problem
April 11, 2022
Corporations are definitely in need of a strong-willed nanny who knows how to handle an umbrella, can restore discipline to the workforce and won’t lose sight of the bottom line—one tuppence at a time.
In Defense of Straight Talk
March 29, 2022
The public has very little confidence in government. Polarization makes consensus building impossible. And America’s leadership role in the world seems to have evaporated.
Oligarchs and Bedfellows
March 14, 2022
Forty years after the collapse of the Iron Curtain, Putin decided it was time to, once again, install some drapes.
Ukraine’s Jewish Problem
February 28, 2022
However this conflict may end, the dark side of Ukraine’s antisemitic history should not be overlooked.
Jewish Westerns and Peddler Power
February 14, 2022
The typecasting of Jews on the frontier puts the lie to the cushy, exploitative lives of privileged Jewish-Americans.
Ho-Hum Holocaust Day
January 30, 2022
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.
Crime and its Non-Punishments
January 17, 2022
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.
Coughing and Limping Into 2022
January 3, 2022
COVID-19’s viral load has already spread into 2022 and brought with it another wave of grim tidings.
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