These are educational institutions. But most universities have allowed bureaucrats – in Washington and on campus – to hijack what could be “teachable moments.”
Will Americans ever regain trust in our institutions? I think so.
In the book of Isaiah, God calls the prophet to comfort the Jewish people. But we know this is really something we must do for one another.
The America my generation seems to be leaving our kids and grandkids is not safer nor saner, and it breaks my heart.
We didn’t think that we were living in a “Golden Age,” because it did not occur to us that what we were experiencing was only a temporary respite from centuries of animosity and intolerance.
Since Israel evacuated Gaza in 2005, the Palestinian population has grown from 1.3 million to 2.1 million. In the West Bank, it has grown from 2.4 million to 3.4 million. If the Israelis were hellbent on committing genocide, it’s one of the most epic failures in military history.
From Trump’s standpoint, the nuclear issue has been overtaken by the bedeviling problem of the Strait of Hormuz. What Trump sees now in Iran is a mess, not a victory.
The world’s fanatical fixation with a group that is less that 0.2 percent of the world’s population has crossed the boundaries of moral vocabulary and into creepiness.
An open revolt for Jewish rights and protections is going to have to come from Jews finally making demands and fighting back—or not at all.
It’d be one thing if Mamdani were a lowly Israelophobe with a few hundred followers. But he’s not. He’s mayor of the city with the world’s largest Jewish population.
