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March 13, 2024

Simply Friendless

Jewish Journal of Los Angeles

“The Ally,” a new play by Itmar Moses, is running Off-Broadway at The Public Theater through March 24. It is an excellent piece of dramatic storytelling that commands one’s full attention.

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March 4, 2024

Nothing Super About Tuesday

Jewish Journal of Los Angeles

With the NFL football season over and the Kansas City Chiefs crowned champions (and Taylor Swift anointed the People’s Princess), March Madness not yet begun, and the Oscars still a week away, Americans can be forgiven binge-watching the sideshow that is the country’s evolving presidential race.

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February 28, 2024

The Ticking Time Clock on Vanquishing Hamas

Jewish Journal of Los Angeles

It was just a matter of time. Once Israel’s War Cabinet said “go” on Oct. 8, the day after the bloodiest and most grotesque attack on the Jewish homeland in its history, the timer on this latest war with Hamas started.

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February 21, 2024

Still Waiting for an Arab Apology

Jewish Journal of Los Angeles

Here’s my recommendation to actress and disability activist Selma Blair: Fire your agent and publicist, immediately. You have received awful, but predictable, advice from your handlers. Straight out of the woke playbook of a spineless, soulless entertainment industry. 

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February 11, 2024

Welcome to Gotham

Jewish Journal of Los Angeles

Welcome to Gotham. If you look up into the gloomy sky, you will notice the Bat Signal. Yes, it’s meant for the Caped Crusader, and not the Wuhan Lab. 

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January 31, 2024

The Agony of IDF-Envy

Jewish Journal of Los Angeles

On Jan. 22, twenty-four soldiers of the Israeli Defense Forces were killed in a single day — 21 in a detonated building in northern Gaza, and three more in combat in the south. That’s the largest death toll of military personnel since the ground invasion into Gaza began, bringing the total loss of Israeli warriors to 220.

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January 22, 2024

Israel and its Multifront Mayhem

In its short history as a modern state, Israel has been a Cinderella story where the glass slipper doesn’t quite fit without arch supports.

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January 15, 2024

Catch the Holocaust Before It Disappears

Jewish Journal of Los Angeles

If you’re a Jew looking for sympathy in these sucker-punch days of hyper-antisemitism, find a way to transport yourself back to the early 1990s, a time when Holocaust memory—“Schindler’s List”; the opening of the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.; and observances of Yom HaShoah across America—was afforded largely universal respect.

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January 8, 2024

Biden’s Zionist Bona Fides and Burden

Jewish Journal of Los Angeles

The world feels like it’s on fire, with flames spreading in diverse directions.

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January 2, 2024

When that Other Ball Drops

Jewish Journal of Los Angeles

It was in 1908 when New York City began the annual tradition of ushering in the New Year with the celebratory dropping of the ball in Times Square.

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December 28, 2023

The Hamas Winter is Coming

Jewish Journal of Los Angeles

The year is coming to an end, but the fighting in Gaza will not.

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December 17, 2023

In Israel’s Time of Need, Jewish Hollywood Has Failed the Audition

Jewish Journal of Los Angeles

For a people that purportedly invented, and now control, Hollywood, Jews are awful at making demands—as Jews.

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December 17, 2023

In Israel’s Time of Need, Jewish Hollywood Has Failed the Audition

Jewish Journal of Los Angeles

For a people that purportedly invented, and now control, Hollywood, Jews are awful at making demands—as Jews.

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December 9, 2023

The Alternate Universe of Antisemitism

Jewish Journal of Los Angeles

Dear Mom and Dad,

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December 3, 2023

The Folly of Ceasefire

Jewish Journal of Los Angeles

In the clamor for a ceasefire in Gaza, there sure is a lot of ceasing on demand. A multitude of ultimatums, public outcries, and violent actions during protests that require arrest.

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November 18, 2023

Blasphemy, Fatwas + Jihad!

White Rose Magazine

THE language of Jihad is confined to the spreading of terror. It is not an invitation to a debate or civil discourse of any kind. It forsakes the presentation of ideas in favor of mob veto, the silence of intimidation.

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November 13, 2023

Art and Belligerency Off-Broadway

Jewish Journal of Los Angeles

Desperate times call for degenerate measures. For American Jews, this would be a good time to call upon Phillip Roth.

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November 8, 2023

Kristallnacht, Act II

Jewish Journal of Los Angeles

In an ordinary year, this week, specifically the days November 9 and 10, would call to mind Kristallnacht—the night of the broken glass. Given the grotesque carnage in southern Israel on October 7, global Jewry is today mindful of a brokenness far worse than glass—the confidence of their place in the world, which far too many had believed was secured. 

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October 30, 2023

Speech That Endangers Jewish Lives is Sweeping America

Jewish Journal of Los Angeles

Hamas chopped the heads off 40 Jewish babies, burned families alive, gang raped teenage girls, and decapitated an elderly man. Oh, and they kidnapped a six-month-old baby, young children, and female Holocaust survivors.

Let that settle in for a moment. Moral revulsion is imminent. Assigning blame a no-brainer, right?

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October 23, 2023

Gaza–Where the Moral Math of Revenge Has No Equal

Jewish Journal of Los Angeles

Get out your calculators. While you’re at it, a set of blinders, too. Israel’s imminent Gaza campaign is going to get ugly. If you’ve been paying close attention, the moral and mathematical problem has already been revealed.

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