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February 9, 2025

The Consequence of Saying Too Many No’s

Jewish Journal of Los Angeles

Newly re-elected President Donald Trump shocked the world this week with a radically alternative vision of the Middle East. Four years away from the Oval Office apparently resulted in the kind of original thinking that would never have occurred to all those think tank “experts” running on empty. They prefer doing the same thing over and over again, expecting a different result.

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February 2, 2025

The Unimaginable Requiem for the Bibas Boys

Jewish Journal of Los Angeles

Over the weekend, the first phase of the temporary 42-day ceasefire between Israel and Hamas continued with the release of three more hostages: American-Israeli Keith Siegal, French-Israeli Ofer Kalderon, and Argentinian-Israeli Yarden Bibas. They were exchanged for 183 Palestinian prisoners.

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January 26, 2025

The Coronation of Donald Trump

Jewish Journal of Los Angeles

Donald Trump returned to the White House this past week and hit the ground sprinting. He unveiled a blistering inventory of Executive Orders that displayed all the showmanship of an Off-Broadway production of “There’s a New Sheriff in Town.” On Tuesday, he even ordered a pause in federal financial assistance.

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January 19, 2025

Bibi’s Bind

Jewish Journal of Los Angeles

Donald Trump warned Hamas that unless the hostages were returned by Inauguration Day, “All hell will break loose.”

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January 11, 2025

Your Houses Are Burning

Jewish Journal of Los Angeles

Welcome to the world of misplaced priorities. Nearly everywhere one looks, people are going about things the wrong way. Usually, it’s faulty thinking. Sometimes intentions are good, but people are conned into marching mindlessly, shouting slogans, and pumping fists. Often, pure hatred is the culprit.

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January 5, 2025

Be Afraid, America. Be Very Afraid.

Jewish Journal of Los Angeles

The terrorist attack by an American citizen turned ISIS ambassador in New Orleans on New Year’s Day, which killed 14 and left 35 seriously injured, was about as predictable as an unfulfilled New Year’s resolution.

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December 29, 2024

The Judeo-Christian Ties That Bind

Jewish Journal of Los Angeles

This is only the fifth time since 1910 that the first night of Hanukkah coincides with Christmas. Not quite a Hanukkah miracle, but a welcome symmetry with the Gregorian calendar.

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December 22, 2024

The Magical Middle East Makeover

Jewish Journal of Los Angeles

Have you been to the Middle East lately? Honestly, you won’t recognize the place. Bring a combat helmet and armored vest. It’s positively lethal this time of year.

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December 15, 2024

The Ivy League of Extraordinary Antisemites

Jewish Journal of Los Angeles

So much for tuxedos, tails and glamorous evening gowns—and those bollocks British accents. What a curious spectacle when posh people descend to the mosh pits.

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December 9, 2024

A Tale of Two Presidencies

Jewish Journal of Los Angeles

President Theodore Roosevelt is known for the saying, “Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.” The presidencies of Barack Obama and Joe Biden will be remembered for a very different aphorism: “Speak in apologetic whispers and defund your sticks; you will go backwards in retreat.”

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December 1, 2024

Awaiting the Day 1 Dictator

Jewish Journal of Los Angeles

I don’t know about you, but I am waiting anxiously for the day after Donald Trump’s second inauguration—you know, when the dictatorship is set to begin.

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November 25, 2024

ICC Kangaroo Court in Session

Jewish Journal of Los Angeles

As if legal systems, and international bodies like the United Nations, needed any assistance in further damaging the public’s perception of their hypocrisy, the International Criminal Court (ICC) has sullied the name of the rule of law even more. 

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November 4, 2024

About That Second Civil War

Jewish Journal of Los Angeles

Tuesday is Election Day, when Americans get to exercise their franchise, and the losing candidate—from either party!—could very well challenge the result and claim victory.

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October 20, 2024

The Year of Living Insanely Dangerously

Jewish Journal of Los Angeles

In 2008, Yahya Sinwar, the mastermind of the October 7 massacre in southern Israel, underwent a surgical procedure to remove a tumor from his brain—in an Israeli hospital!

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October 14, 2024

The Black and White Anti-Israel World of Ta-Nehisi Coates

Jewish Journal of Los Angeles

In a nation torn apart by political divisions, high-octane intolerance, cancellation craziness, fixed binary choices, fashionable antisemitism and, worst of all, exploited racial tensions, Ta-Nehisi Coates’ new book, “The Message,” couldn’t have come at a worse moment.

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October 6, 2024

It Began With Beheadings–Full Stop

Jewish Journal of Los Angeles

The Jewish people will never again be the same—which is ironic given that the trademark on “Never Again” belongs to them. Jew-hatred is everlasting and prone to repeat performances.

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September 29, 2024

Map Wiping 101

Jewish Journal of Los Angeles

What a difference a change in battlefield priorities, and a steadfast determination to vanquish a deserving enemy, makes. Unlike the slow yearlong quagmire that is Gaza, Israel picked up the pace and is now on a lucky streak in Lebanon. That’s an unfortunate development for Hezbollah. The longtime terrorist group now finds itself in real jeopardy of disappearing as a threat on Israel’s northern border.

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September 25, 2024

The Age of Iliberalism

White Rose Magazine

IF it were possible to reconvene in the Independence Hall of heaven, I think it is fair to say that America’s Founding Fathers, peering down upon this moment in America—especially our political culture—might gallingly thunder, . . .

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September 22, 2024

No More Walkie-Talkie for Terrorists

Jewish Journal of Los Angeles

Apple’s iPhone 16 went on sale Friday and received an unexpected boost in demand from Islamic terrorists around the world. As Hezbollah disastrously discovered earlier in the week, trying to outsmart Israel by using pagers and walkie-talkies from the Stone Age (their favorite epoch, by the way), believing that such outdated technology made them impervious to Israeli intelligence, was a mistake.

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September 16, 2024

Civis Americanus Sum

Jewish Journal of Los Angeles

Outrage dissipates with time. Left unattended, and the aggrieved become inured. Allow wrongdoers to go unpunished, and forgiveness is presumed. The once extraordinary, improbably, becomes quite ordinary. The moral universe demands justice, but not in a world of moral ambiguity.

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