Shmuley Boteach
ARTICLES BY: Shmuley Boteach
Israel Tolerates the Intolerable by Allowing Terrorists to Live
I have long argued that Israel’s policy toward convicted terrorists is a tragically misplaced mercy. In the nearly 70 years of its existence, the State of Israel’s...
We Must Believe In and Build a European Jewish Future
I recently took a trip to Europe. After passing through the painful experiences of Polish Jewish history -- endless ghettos, death camps and mass graves -- we arrived in...
Rabbi Uses Stereotype to Malign Orthodoxy in the Washington Post
I have long argued that the Jewish community has allowed itself to be treated in ways that other communities wouldn't tolerate. Far too often, we fail...
Canada Attacks Israeli Wines While Exploiting Occupied Tibet
The Canadian government is reeling from a foiled attempt at a crusade against Israeli wines. Last week, the Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO) -- a crown-corporation with...
A Rational Jewish Approach to Homosexuality
Rabbi Joseph Dweck of the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue in London got into hot water recently when he praised homosexuality as a coming of age,...
Yes, Trump Should Have Visited Warsaw’s Holocaust Memorial, but He Remains a Great Friend of Israel
WARSAW, POLAND — For the past 10 days, my family and I have visited the horrible killing fields of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the Lodz ghetto, Tykocin and...
Walking Among the Ruins of Hitler’s Europe on the Day of the Rebbe’s Passing
Today, the third of the Hebrew month of Tammuz, marks the 23rd anniversary of the passing of my teacher, mentor and guiding light: Rabbi Menachem...
Senator Booker Rightly Addresses Gun Violence in America, but Betrays Himself by Funding Iran
In a recent speech to the New Democracy Forum, New Jersey Senator Cory Booker decried the political situation in the United States as “not normal”...
A Righteous Israel Must Bomb Assad’s Crematoria
For more than six years now, Syrian President Bashar Assad has waged a vicious war against his own people. So far, nearly half-a-million people have been killed....
Jason Greenblatt, Israel’s Fearless Friend in the White House
Less than six months into his job as President Donald Trump’s adviser on international negotiations and chief Middle East envoy, Jason Greenblatt is already feeling...
To Honor Elie Wiesel’s First Yahrzeit, Israel Should Bomb Syria’s Crematoria
This month, on the 26th of Sivan, we will mark the first yahrzeit of Elie Wiesel. Almost no one in my life has touched and inspired...
The Last Kaddish for Elie Wiesel
Before the serious policy disagreements on Iran and Syria that came between me and Samantha Power, America’s former ambassador to the UN, I remember studying with...
Rivers of Tears for Israel’s Fallen Soldiers
I did not cry upon my third visit to Auschwitz last week. My daughters did, but I didn’t. I can’t quite explain why. Perhaps it...
At Auschwitz, the Dead Wish to March With the Living
Once again, I have found myself lost amid the remains of Auschwitz. The last time I was here, I visited with a delegation from the Israeli...
New York Times Blames the Jews for Donald Trump
Officials From Largest US Islamic Charity Promote Antisemitism on Social Media
Syria Proves the World's Moral Bankruptcy
Organizers of Annual Holocaust Commemoration Slam Racial Justice March On Yom Kippur As 'Monumental Injustice' Against Jews
Report: Bannon Pushed for Moving Embassy to Jerusalem, Boycotted Meeting With 'Terrorist' Abbas