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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 on cable TV news programs. His most recent book is entitled “Saving Free Speech . . . from Itself.”

The Magical Middle East Makeover

October 7 will go down in history as a red-letter date, but not just for Israelis. Everything is now changed by the aftermath of that fateful October.

The Ivy League of Extraordinary Antisemites

Decorum went from black tie to black eye. There was no greater evidence of the alarming decline of Western civilization. And at Oxford, of all places, which imagines itself as its cradle.

A Tale of Two Presidencies

Thank goodness someone with a heavy hand is about to take the wheel in the White House. It will be an adjustment for most Americans who grew accustomed to the much lighter touch of lightweights.

ICC Kangaroo Court in Session

The court is drawing a moral equivalence between terrorists who behead Israeli babies, gang rape scores of Israeli teenagers, and murder, mutilate and torch 1,200 Israelis, and the undeniably just war Israel is waging in self-defense.  

Of Dutch Pogroms and American Politics

All of Europe has seen variations of the same riotous, murderous actions taken against Jews, by the same persecutors in the Middle East, North Africa and Persian Gulf who call for the death of Israel.

About That Second Civil War

For weeks pundits have held their tongues rather than say what is on the minds of many: Will this election set the stage for a civil war?

The Banality of ‘Don’t!’

The Biden administration, and the record that Harris has inherited over these past four years, has left American Jews with many questions

The Year of Living Insanely Dangerously

If this year of beheadings and ballistic missiles has taught us anything, it is that Islamic trash talk is real. American platitudes are mere sound bites.

The Black and White Anti-Israel World of Ta-Nehisi Coates

This is Coates’ specialty: identify a people worthy of contempt, paint the context with a broad racial brush, add the color and simplicity found in a comic book, and you have the makings of a pogrom waged by Jew-hating social justice warriors.

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