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.”
Something has gone terribly wrong when kids, raised the world over on Sesame Street, have forsaken Bert and Ernie, and their colorful Muppet cohorts, for murderous jihadis far grouchier than Oscar.
In the spirit of Passover, what will make this Bond different from all other Bonds is that Aaron Taylor-Johnson is . . . Jewish.
People still remember the Goldstone Report. The Goldstone Recantation never caught on.
Not unlike Julius Caesar, Israel received a number of stabbings over the past few weeks, none of which, fortunately, has been fatal.
With rising incitement against Jews globally, American Jews are feeling betrayed by former allies—those who are outspokenly antisemitic, and those who remain silent.
This is a time for serious people who will choose a side and take stands, and for Jews who are fully committed and won’t flinch.
“The Ally” arrives at a propitious, yet extremely delicate, moment.
For a nation with 333 million people and boasting the world’s longest continuous democracy, there’s nothing super about our political process.
If Israel is going to rid itself of Hamas once and for all, it will have to make it quick.
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