
If Putin Loses, History Wins
Here’s the encouraging news: The reaction to Putin’s aggression has been so severe and brutal he may, in fact, not prevail.

Here’s the encouraging news: The reaction to Putin’s aggression has been so severe and brutal he may, in fact, not prevail.

Thousands of years after our biblical patriarch Abraham’s poignant cry to God of “Hineni” (“Here I am”), the ultimate expression of responsibility, a Jewish president in the midst of war uttered a similar message: “Listen. I am here.”

Yu can imagine my reaction when my friend and neighbor Dr. Ron Nagel told me about a new building for a Jewish school for kids with disabilities, Maor Academy. It was an easy call to make it our cover story this week.

With Iran we act like suckers and with Russia we act like bullies. What kind of coherent geopolitical strategy is that?

All we’re hearing, whether from the U.S. or the European side, is bluster, alarm and brinkmanship. Where has this gotten us?

When he responded to truckers protesting vaccine mandates by saying they had “unacceptable views,” he was undermining the fundamental right to dissent.

The timing couldn’t be better, as we’re coming out of two years of COVID hibernation where the biggest enemy of the Jewish world has been sweat pants.

Just as the ocean and desert and mountains beckoned when I was in my Casablanca neighborhood, I felt something similar in Los Angeles.

Can you imagine how the media would have responded if the revelation was against a Republican rather than a Democrat?

For the millions who don’t love themselves, but who show impeccable courtesy with the outside world, maybe we ought to flip the golden rule: “Love yourself as your neighbors.”




