When Glenn Beck says that Reform Judaism is like radical Islam , insofar as both are more about politics than faith, he’s being unfair to radical Islam. Yes, both are deeply involved with politics and confuse their own politics with God’s. But radical Islamists seems to be much more serious about their religion. Read More »

The main thing is not to be phobic. We shouldn’t be Islamophobic now, or Deutschophobic in the 1930s. Back in the 1930s, The New York Times was loking for good, even in Berlin. Hitler, of course, was a bad guy. But the rest of the Nazi leadership? Moderate. And the German people? They didn’t like what Hitler was doing to the Jews. Read More »

MEMRI, the invaluable Middle East Media Research Institute , which translates and analyzes Arabic media, has uncovered the latest fascinating development in Cairo. The Egyptian media — which covers Egypt the way the YES network covers the Yankees — are now apologizing and backtracking from their pro-Mubarak coverage. Read More »

MEMRI, the invaluable Middle East Media Research Institute, read more Read More »

Lindsay Lohan Tweets a congratulations to the Egyptian people and tells how she prays that Egypt keeps its peace treaty with Israel . She hopes Egypt “sets the trend for its neighbors to create peace with Israel and the entire region.” Everyone in Hollywood should be that cool. Read More »

On the 100th anniversary of Ronald Reagan’s birth, and the 25th anniversary of Natan Sharansky crossing the Gleinicke Bridge to freedom in West Berlin, it’s important to remember some of the people who made that crossing possible. Read More »

  On the 100th anniversary of Ronald Reagan’s birth, and the 25th anniversary of Natan Sharansky crossing the Gleinicke Bridge to freedom in West Berlin, it’s important to remember some of the people who made that crossing possible. Read More »

A lot of people make fun of Hitler’s artistic ability, talking about him as a failed artist, as if he were more of a house painter than an aspiring painter in the realm of the fine arts. Yes, his canvases were more appropriate for cheap motels than musems. Read More »

A letter to the editor of The New York Times that was printed on June 6, 1934. The Times had run a story, “Religion Among Jews Found To Be Waning .” One reader, Sidney J. Simon, wrote to the editor , disagreeing with the article’s conclusion as summed up in that headline. Read More »

This week is a time to celebrate and honor two extraordinary and completely different American lives:  Helene Aylon, the great Jewish artist and feminist  — and a spectacular person –whose beautiful and creative life might be her ultimate Read More »

Let’s admit it. Barack Hussein Obama lost Egypt, to the extent that any president can be blamed for a foreign policy fiasco, and this one was a doozy. This is a shock only to those who think the collapse of Egypt can be blamed on Sarah Palin, talk radio and the Tea Party. Read More »

Are these economic hard times? Not if you’re a liberal rabbi. You probably don’t worry about foreclosures, the temple paid for your house. Read More »

Here’s Ed Koch’s analysis of the situation in the Islamic world, excerpted from his e-mail. read more Read More »

Here’s an interesting editorial in the Sun on how Ariel Sharon, several years ago, analyzed Egypt and Mubarak. Wise as Sharon was, the fact is that Mubarak has nevertheless kept Sadat’s peace, albeit a cold peace, but a more honest peace than we’ve known with the Palestinians after Oslo. Read More »

Here are the latest rankings of yeshiva league hockey. And here’s a look at the beginnings of yeshiva league hockey, from Jewish Hoops America. Read More »

One loved Nixon. One ran against Nixon in 1972, and was the brother-in-law of the man who beat Nixon in 1960. Yet a real bond seemed to develope between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sargent Shrive. Here’s Schwarzenegger’s tribute to Shriver in The Los Angeles Times. Read More »

It is fitting that Gabby Giffords is the congresswomen from a border district with Mexico, because a lot of the same people who think any illegal alien from Mexico who wants to become an American is therefore an American, also think that anyone who wants to be a Jew is instantly a Jew. Read More »

Jay Beilis, Mendel’s grandson, sent us the inscription on Mendel’s grave: Pay attention to this grave Here lies a holy person, a chosen man The people of Kiev made him a victim And upon all Israel spread the travail Falsely accused him and his Read More »

Today in history:   Jan. 18, 1943 saw the first shots of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. The Nazis intended to deport 8,000 Jews but the resistance forceed the Nazis to retreat after 5,000 were deported, saving 3,000 lives. The uprising resumed on erev Pesach, three months later. Read More »

Was Martin Luther King indifferent to what looked like the potential eradication of the Jewish State, with the likely death of its millions of Jewish citizens? According to a story in The Jewish Week, ”King and the Jews” (Jan. 11), the answer is yes, he was indifferent. What can I say. Judge for yourself. Read More »