While it’s natural to bemoan the hate that comes our way, we can be grateful that we’re not the ones doing the hating; that we’re not allowing hate to corrode our souls; that we still have the wisdom to be happy.
Bibi-ism has been the nation’s dominant philosophy for a generation. That may be about to change.
In standing up to Macklemore and declaring, “I was born a Jew,” Pink did something painfully rare in today’s entertainment world: she refused to abandon her people when supporting Jews became unfashionable.
The 9/11 families who asked him to stay away were not judging his beliefs about G-d. They were responding to what he has said, whom he has hired and endorsed and whom he chooses to associate with.
The United States once attached “Never Forget” as a catchphrase of post-9/11 memory. Its people, however, are now fast forgetting, flirting instead with the descendants and sympathizers of those who flew those planes.
Have you noticed that we’re hearing “Shana Tova” a lot more than “Shabbat Shalom”?
This is a season when we think about obligations and about what we owe one another. Here is a communal obligation, arvut hadadit, that we can actually meet.
The thing with labels is that they stick. That is a good thing for a group like the Nazis, but to nonchalantly slap the “genocide” label on Israel and its supporters is criminal.
