Shmuley Boteach
ARTICLES BY: Shmuley Boteach
Trump Deserves the Nobel Prize for Middle East Peace
When I was a rabbi at Oxford for 11 years, we hosted an annual lecture that was delivered by a Nobel Peace Prize laureate. Among...
Aliyah During COVID-19
To see Israel today is to witness prophecies come true: the Jews are back in the mix, on their land, and at the helm of...
Israel Should Not Abandon Sovereignty Plans for UAE Peace
The peace deal signed between Israel and the UAE was a historic milestone toward Middle East peace. President Donald Trump, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and...
Celebrity Antisemites Can’t Be Absolved Through Private Apologies
Recently, Mort Klein of the ZOA engaged Ice Cube in a two-hour conversation that was treated as an act of absolution for the antisemitic rapper....
The End of Israel and Peter Beinart as the Last Man
Like the moon, Peter Beinart follows a predictable cycle. You won’t hear about him for months. But the more he’s ignored, the more his rhetoric...
America in Crisis
I was born in 1966, so I never witnessed the turmoil of that turbulent decade. But having read countless book on it, and spoken to...
New York Is a Model of Diversity, Tolerance and Justice
2020 will be remembered, among many things, as the year that brought New York to its knees. It began with the quarantines and the lockdowns,...
John Bolton and the Art of Ingratitude
The environment surrounding American politics has become increasingly contaminated over the past few years, with political and media figures off all stripes veering sharply into...
Ignore EU Officials on Annexation
With the release of the Trump peace plan, Israeli communities in the ancient Jewish heartland seemed poised to be absorbed into the modern Jewish state....
The Demonization of Netanyahu Adviser Aaron Klein
For too long in America, we’ve seen people fired, forced to resign, or otherwise de-platformed for nothing more than expressing an unpopular political opinion. With...
The American House Is Burning
I have witnessed things this week that beggar the imagination. Tens of thousands of demonstrators marching through the streets of New York outraged at the...
A Prayer for My Father
This is the eulogy that Rabbi Shmuley Boteach delivered on May 27, 2020, for his father, Yoav Botach, on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem...
I Hate the Coronavirus
I know that loads of people are speaking about the blessings of the coronavirus. They get to catch up on family time, institute regular family...
Coronavirus Dating Demands Everyone Become a Matchmaker
The coronavirus pandemic has exposed a vast landscape of loneliness across the world, where so many singles are either quarantining alone or even with parents...