Posts Tagged: shmuley boteach
Disgraced Former NY Governor Announces Pro-Israel Advocacy Group
Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Monday announced that he’s forming an advocacy group in support of Israel and against antisemitism. “I'm going to call...
For Peace, ‘Support Israel Strongly,’ Says Senate Candidate Dr. Oz
“The best way to have peace is to support Israel strongly, unwaveringly,” the Republican candidate for US Senate in Pennsylvania, Mehmet Oz, told The Algemeiner...
Stop Justifying the Deaths of the Meron 45
My daughter called me before the Sabbath in terrible pain. Beyond trying to process the deaths of religious Jews at Mount Meron on Lag B’Omer,...
It Was Wrong for Jewish Leaders to Attend Reckless Hanukkah Parties
In a recent op-ed, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach expressed surprise at the level of outrage directed at him over his appearance at the White House Hanukkah...
Directing Hatred Towards the Right Places
Last week, I attended the White House Hanukkah party, and some people wrote to attack me. The White House protocols were for everyone to be masked...
American Exceptionalism and Contradictions
By now, the world has concluded that America is insane. A crazy country filled with crazy people who have gone off the deep end. A...
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,...
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...
On Anniversary of Hitler’s Death, Remembering His Birth
This week marked the 75th anniversary of the suicide in a German bunker of Adolf Hitler, the most evil man that ever lived. In the summer...
AIPAC Rewards Cory Booker for Abandoning Israel
In the fall of 2008, I traveled with Senator Cory Booker to Chicago and presented him to the prestigious AIPAC summit. He then delivered a...
The Power of Jewish Values
Today, the Jewish people are once again facing an upsurge in antisemitism. Beyond that seemingly eternal struggle, the Jewish people, especially those in the New...