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.
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 a contributing writer for White Rose Magazine and appears regularly on cable TV news programs. His most recent book is entitled, “Beyond Proportionality: Israel's Just War in Gaza."
Is it Time to Cancel Trump?
December 20, 2021
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.
The Dangerous Banality of Outrage
December 7, 2021
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.
Kyle Rittenhouse and the Ticking Racial Clock
November 22, 2021
Without the rioting, Rittenhouse would have remained anonymous. Instead, he became a symbol of vigilante justice.
It’s Time for Jewish Democrats to Ditch the Hard Left
November 8, 2021
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.
The Calling of the Shabbos Goy
October 24, 2021
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.
Why Jewish Artists and Entertainers Should Never Be the Last to Know
October 11, 2021
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?
Of Garish Dresses and Iron Domes
September 27, 2021
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.
Terrorism and the Waning of American Outrage
September 13, 2021
In almost a New York minute, Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, that red-letter day of infamy in America’s collective consciousness, was supplanted by another day so emblematic of catastrophe, it needed only two numbers to name it.
America: After the Taliban, Get Ready for Iran
August 29, 2021
Given America’s botched exit from Afghanistan and ensuing terror attacks that took the lives of 13 U.S. troops, and the Biden administration’s surreal trust in the Taliban, it will be impossible for Iranians to keep a straight face in any direct negotiations.
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