Menachem Rosensaft

Genug shoyn!

That's Yiddish for enough already. Let's all take a deep breath and cut people some slack. The hyperbolic outrage on...

Bye-bye Bibi: May it happen speedily and in our times

In a profanity-filled telephone conversation last September, according to New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan in their...

President Herzog foreshadows what Israel may yet be again

Countries, like individuals, have consciences. For those of us who reject the extremism, bigotry and intolerance of Benjamin Netanyahu’s...

Why is Ben Gvir still in the government?

The scene, captured in a video posted on social media by the unabashedly fascist Israeli Minister of National Security,...

Sapiro v. Ford, or how to cut an antisemite down to size

Every once in a while, part of a film's or a book's importance lies in what it does not...

Menachem Begin would be horrified by Israel’s death penalty law

The death penalty law adopted last week by a bare majority of 62 Knesset members is a discriminatory abomination...
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Ben-Gvir’s death penalty law is an abomination

Just days before Pesach – Passover – when Jews around the world recite avadim hayinu, that we were once...

The verbal diarrhea that is Tucker Carlson

Here we go again, with a vengeance. As in the Peter Allen song from the 1979 movie, “All That...

A perpetrator of the Holocaust does not belong on Broadway              

Pierre Laval, the prime minister of the Nazi-collaborationist French government based in Vichy during most of World War II,...

Far-right antisemitism: “a growing cancer”

An article by my friend Thane Rosenbaum should be read by and circulated to all those ostrich-like political conservatives...

Mamdani’s condemnation of Hamas is a step in the right direction

I consider the fact that New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani condemned the antisemitic rhetoric used by demonstrators outside...

Revelry in the age of horror: A New Year’s meditation           

Hold the champagne, at least for a moment. As we mark the beginning of a new year, let us...