Cliff Rieders
ARTICLES BY: Cliff Rieders
The Unholy Alliance With Russia Unravels
When the Soviet Union broke up, there were widespread rumors that a deal had been made with the Western world. Mother Russia would not exercise...
Funding the Palestinian Authority Is a Betrayal of American Values
The Biden administration's decision to provide $235 million of United States aid to the Palestinian Authority (PA) has not been a major news story. The...
Finding Joy in Difficult Times
Joy in tough times is an oxymoron. Jews celebrated Passover in the Warsaw ghetto, while being murdered. It is also true that Simchat Torah was...
What We Can Learn From COVID-19: ‘Things’ Don’t Always Make Us Happy
Elective surgery in most hospitals has been eliminated. Pollution is way down in Los Angeles and other places in the world, because people are not...
Celebrating Passover Amid Coronavirus — and Changing for the Better
This year, we celebrated Passover in Israel because our flights back to the United States were canceled due to the coronavirus. Passover is an easily...
The Jewish Community as a Political Football
As a result of the recent violence by members of the African-American community and others against Jews in the United States, many have ramped up...
How Should Donald Trump’s Bigotry Be Treated by the Jewish Community?
I have written about the American Jewish community as a political football. Perhaps that was an understatement. Thanks to President Trump’s latest tweet war, it...
How Economic Greed Led to the Iran Nuclear Deal
There was a time when the number one item on the liberal agenda was fear of nuclear proliferation. When I was a child, I remember my...
