Rosner’s Torah Talk: Parshat Behaalotcha with Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie

Jokes about Jewish noses are not funny and they are clearly antisemitic.

As antisemitism rises again — and as figures who claim Catholic identity trivialize Hitler and vilify Jews — it is incumbent upon you to speak with moral thunder.

Let us speak plainly: many of these influencers are not advocates. They are actors. They cry on cue, curate their grief and sell Jewish tragedy as content. They master the algorithm, not the fight.

The tension between Athens and Sparta, openness and fortification, building and defending, has been with the Jewish people from Tanakh through Jabotinsky and into the present moment.

Free expression is essential in a democracy. No one should call for the censorship of ideas. But there must be accountability when speech crosses into incitement of political violence.

Ari Fuld’s heroism is evident because rarely does the victim become the savior.

While Bill Maher and John Fetterman demonstrated an understanding of Jewish values, across town at the Emmys we saw just the opposite, delivered with the hollow prefix “as a Jew.”

As Gen. Petraeus warned, “Half-measures in urban warfare do not save lives. They only postpone defeat.”

Why is Saturday Night Live star Bowen Yang falsely accusing Israel of genocide, while ignoring the confirmed genocide perpetrated against Muslim Uyghurs in China?

It’s hard to overstate how reckless, unserious, and corrosive this claim is — not just for Israel, but for the meaning of the word “genocide” and the principle that nations have a right to defend themselves.