Jewish Literature
ADL’s Foxman Analyzes Intersection of Online Hate and Free Speech in New Book (INTERVIEW)
JNS.org - Abraham H. Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), on June 4 is releasing his new book VIRAL HATE: Containing Its...
Heads Up!
Perspective. What a difference it can make. How we look, where we look and the way we look at things always colors our impressions. In this week's Parsha (Bible portion), the word Ur'eetem - And you...
How Saul Bellow ‘Blew It’ With the Holocaust, Changed His Tune After Six Day War
LOS ANGELES—Born in Canada into an immigrant Jewish family in 1915, Nobel Prize-winning author Saul Bellow had a traditional Jewish upbringing, which included Torah study, Talmud, and Hebrew. Yet Rabbi David Wolpe observes that Bellow...
Is ‘Terrorism’ Racist Term, UK’s Guardian Asks; Ignores 70% Terror Deaths By Islamists
Recent posts I've written at CiF Watch about the Guardian's appalling use of the term "political prisoner" to characterize violent Palestinian terrorists who murdered, or attempted to murder, innocent civilians proved warranted on these...
Eternally Grateful
Respecting our parents seems to become more difficult as we get older. When we were...
Speak Nicely, But Clearly
That the Torah (Bible) speaks in refined language is a principle of Biblical studies. The...
Siblings in Synch
The Jewish People had been busy inaugurating the Mishkan, the sanctuary in the wilderness and...
Jewish Reading Reviews
Reading has always been one of my favorite hobbies and I find it thoroughly...
Bulls and Lambs
Not only animal rights groups have difficulty with this week's Parsha (bible portion). Many if...
ADL’s Foxman Analyzes Intersection of Online Hate and Free Speech in New Book (INTERVIEW)
JNS.org - Abraham H. Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), on June 4 is releasing his new book VIRAL HATE: Containing Its Spread...
Heads Up!
Perspective. What a difference it can make. How we look, where we look and the way we look at things always colors our impressions. In this...
How Saul Bellow ‘Blew It’ With the Holocaust, Changed His Tune After Six Day War
LOS ANGELES—Born in Canada into an immigrant Jewish family in 1915, Nobel Prize-winning author Saul Bellow had a traditional Jewish upbringing, which included Torah study,...
Is ‘Terrorism’ Racist Term, UK’s Guardian Asks; Ignores 70% Terror Deaths By Islamists
Recent posts I've written at CiF Watch about the Guardian's appalling use of the term "political prisoner" to characterize violent Palestinian terrorists who murdered,...
Eternally Grateful
Respecting our parents seems to become more difficult as we get older. When we were small, we didn't really have much choice. We were totally...
Speak Nicely, But Clearly
That the Torah (Bible) speaks in refined language is a principle of Biblical studies. The classic example is back in the story of Noah. There,...
Siblings in Synch
The Jewish People had been busy inaugurating the Mishkan, the sanctuary in the wilderness and G-d's first official dwelling place on earth. A whole week...
Jewish Reading Reviews
Reading has always been one of my favorite hobbies and I find it thoroughly enjoyable. Books always allow us to seek further knowledge,...
Bulls and Lambs
Not only animal rights groups have difficulty with this week's Parsha (bible portion). Many if not most people in our modern era have a problem...
Going for Gold
Did you know that, according to the Midrash (commentary), gold was only created to beautify the Beit Hamikdash, our holy temple in Jerusalem. That's right....
To be a Leader of the Jewish People
"That day, G-d saved Israel from the hands of the Egyptians . . . The Israelites saw the great power G-d had displayed against...
Freedom’s Defense
And you shall explain to your child on that day, 'It is because of what the Lord did for me when I went free from Egypt'. It...
Of Lice and Men
Throughout all Egypt the dust turned into lice. But when the magicians tried to produce lice by their secret arts, they could not....
Who is a Jewish Leader?
The sedra (Bible portion) of Shemot, in a series of finely etched vignettes, paints a portrait of the life of Moses, culminating in the moment...
