Abraham Cooper
ARTICLES BY: Abraham Cooper
A Prayer for Alan Gross on Passover 2014
I never met Alan Gross. But on Monday night, when I gather with 700 other American Jews in Phoenix to celebrate the Passover Seder, his...
Four Things Obama Should Have Told Abbas
On Yom Kippur, 1972, I was standing alongside a Soviet Jewish dissident outside Moscow's lone synagogue when we were suddenly surrounded by KGB agents. Sensing...
Tough Times Again for Ukraine’s Jewish Population
We are now witnessing the latest round of violence and tragedy in the Ukraine. And not for the first time, hundreds of thousands of Jews...
Ariel Sharon – Hallowed Warrior Leaves Complicated Political Legacy (OBITUARY)
A wise man once said it is difficult to predict the future but harder still to predict the past. Such is the case with Ariel...
Kristallnacht’s Long Shadow Hangs Over Europe
Kristallnacht. Seventy-five years later, the very word (Night of Broken Glass) still casts its long shadow. On Nov. 9th, 1938, a mass pogrom was unleashed...
Strengthening the U.S.-Japanese Alliance
In remembrance of painful past lies the roots of redemption for the future As a believer in the strong US-Japan relationship, I was impressed and assured...
Rodman Goes to North Korea, Cavorts With Assad’s WMD Supplier
Dennis Rodman's visit to North Korea serve's Pyongyang's interests on multiple levels. For starters it gives a chance to poke the U.S. in the eye, ...
Do Abbas and the PA Really Want Peace?
Diplomats may sign treaties, but only people make peace. If true, then Secretary of State Kerry's Middle East peace initiative-on-steroids may be doomed. Forget the...
U.S. Policy in Middle East Needs a Morality Check
On June 4, 2009, President Barack Obama made his historic "New Beginning" speech in Cairo, boldly seeking to harken a new day for the U.S....
Hate Crime and Swastika Can’t Mar Jackie Robinson’s Legacy
I was flying cross country recently, watching 42, the wonderful biopic on Jackie Robinson, when I got word that a monument honoring him at Coney Island's...
Roger Waters and His Ilk are the Real Hate-Mongers
When Roger Waters floated a huge pig balloon stamped with the Jewish Star of David at his recent concert in Belgium, the aging rock figure...
Why is Thailand Celebrating Hitler and Nazism?
Graduation Day, especially from your nation's most prestigious university, is a special time for celebration. It appears that as Thailand's prestigious Chulalongkorn University was bestowing...
The Horrors of North Korea Require Us to Act
Surprised that North Korea's youthful leader, Kim Jung-un reportedly distributed copies of Mein Kampf as birthday presents to his country's elite? Don't be. For decades, North Korea...
Biggest Battlefield in Terror War is on the Internet
There is one war that the terrorists are winning and if we don't act, more Boston-style massacres, more horrific atrocities on the streets of...
