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Why are you silent?

Last night, a missile was fired…again…at Israel. Three years ago, the parents of murdered Daniel Turgeman asked the UN Secretary General, “Why are you silent?” Why? Why are you silent when a city of 130,000 people is bombed? When people live in fear waiting for the siren?

The Uranium One scandal and the implications for Israel.

Under the George W. Bush presidency, a tough line was taken against the Russian incursion into Georgia and Russian pressure on the Ukraine. Bush laid plans to create a missile-defense shield in Europe. When Barack Obama became president, he and Hillary Clinton decided to reset relationships with the Kremlin. At …

The Maccabees Were Not G.I. Joes & Other Misconceptions of Galut Mentality

A huge part of the entire Tanach is about showing just how hard we have had to struggle to maintain the Torah mentality Hashem wants of us and not fall into Galut Mentality. And we haven’t always completely succeeded, because it requires us to rise up to that level of …

So Just Shut Up!

Ever feel like going outside and screaming at the top of your lungs, “Just SHUT UP!” I can’t do that because, with several small grandchildren, I would have them repeating it to everyone they know and so, in silence I suffer as I read the words of others, as I …

Why Jared Kushner is on a fool’s mission.

Jared Kushner, President Trump’s attractive son-in-law, is trying to do the impossible. He hopes to achieve what too many others before him have failed to do. That is to turn a dysfunctional, corrupt, rejectionist, ideological, violent, Palestinian political divide, into a peace-loving nation. Here are just a few of the …

My speech at the Jordan Option Conference

According to The Jordan Times, the Political Affairs Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe unanimously approved a report praising Jordan’s King Abdullah for implementing internal reforms. However, to the contrary of the king’s public perception in the West as a moderate seeking to improve the living conditions in …