Published on The Federalist “If you’re explaining, you’re losing.” That longstanding public relations mantra has become only more germane in the epoch of the digital sound byte. At this year’s AIPAC Policy Conference held last month in Washington DC and attended by 18,000 activists, there was a lot of explaining on a key front. In addition…
Category: Religion
How Liberalism Is Destroying Jewish-American Zionism [NRO] An obsession with social justice, tolerance, and inclusivity has come to roost.
Published on National Review Online A few years ago, someone told me that non-Jewish passengers were starting to outnumber Jewish passengers on El Al flights from New York City to Tel Aviv. It was probably just a rumor. (I doubt that any airline, even El Al, would compile — let alone publicize — this sort of…
My ADL Problem [TABLET] What exactly is the famed organization fighting, and for whom is it fighting?
Published on Tablet I’m conservative by most measures, and I’ve long known that the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is markedly progressive on most policy issues. But I wasn’t looking for a brawl. I was simply searching for friendship. Relatively new to the Detroit metropolitan area, I was hoping to become more involved in the Jewish community and…
Why We Couldn’t Solve the Jewish Liberalism Puzzle [NRO] Certain sociocultural causes of Jewish political behavior have been neglected.
Published on National Review Online Given the attention lavished on American Jewish liberalism, one could sensibly conclude that it ranks alongside Stonehenge and Bigfoot as one of the world’s greatest mysteries. Indeed, the “phenomenon” has inspired countless theses, lectures, surveys, and symposia, not to mention innumerable familial quarrels. Norman Podhoretz, the former longtime editor of Commentary,…
How is Obama Not a Jew? [DAILY CALLER] There isn’t much daylight between the Oval Office’s resident and the Chosen People.
Published on The Daily Caller So the right-wing is steaming mad because President Obama – allegedly – once pondered aloud how it could be that he’s viewed as anything less than Zionist when he’s practically a member of the tribe. “You know, I think I am the closest thing to a Jew that has ever…
Book Review: “Anti-Judaism,” by David Nirenberg [KEY REPORTER] The presence of Jews was rarely needed for non-Jews to fixate on Judaism.
Published on The Key Reporter Fear that Judaism was usurping culture reached an unprecedented height during the Renaissance, a period in which Jews were essentially absent from Western Europe. The revolutionary legislators of the doomed National Assembly obsessively deliberated over the citizenship status of Jews, who were virtually nonexistent in late-18th century France. And of…