Shmuley Boteach
ARTICLES BY: Shmuley Boteach
Hurricane Sandy: The Storm that United A Divided Nation
I'm sitting here with my kids on Monday night and, aside from the glow of the laptop, the Sabbath has come early this week. Outside...
A Tribute to My Mother on Her 70th Birthday
I have often wondered why the Bible includes 'Honor your father and mother' among the ten most important moral commandments, right up there with not...
The Rabbi and the Rhodes Scholar: How An Accidental Meeting Between Cory Booker and Me Led to Jewish Renewal
Twenty years ago this Monday, corresponding to the Jewish festival of Simchat Torah, a young African-American Rhodes scholar walked into a Chabad Jewish student center in...
A Hitler Wannabe Visits New York
Autumn is here and with it the annual trip that makes Mahmoud Ahmadinejad positively giddy. The Iranian President gets to leave the country whose citizens...
What is More Virtuous? Paying Taxes or Giving Charity?
David Axelrod was manhandled across cyberspace for tweeting an attack against Republican donors Sheldon and Miriam Adelson on the morning of September 11th. Let's be...
NORPAC Surrenders Israel’s Interests in New Jersey
On 31 May, 1944, in one of the greatest military speeches ever delivered, General George S. Patton told his Third Army, "Thirty years from now...
Haim Saban Sanitizes Obama’s Record on Israel
Haim Saban, a proud Jew, staunch supporter of Israel, and noted philanthropist, nevertheless parses President Obama's record on Israel to deliver a sanitized rendition of a...
The Republican Party Has to Show it Has Heart
Attending the GOP Convention got me thinking. Those of you following my race for the United States Congress know that politics is not my first...
A Democratic Chorus of ‘No’ Rejects Mention of Jerusalem in Platform
The shocking video of Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa trying to push through Jerusalem as Israel's capital in the Democratic platform highlights the strong reservations that many...
Germany’s Circumcision Police
There was a head-spinning moment in Germany last week: News emerged that a rabbi had been criminally charged for performing his religious duties. Rabbi David...
The Adelsons and Super PACS are a Fair Counter to Incumbency
Last week the Wall St Journal reported that Sheldon and Miriam Adelson gave $500,000 to a Super PAC supporting my campaign for Congress. The report...
Opinion: A Response to Senator Lautenberg’s Attack on the Republican Position on Israel
I consider Senator Frank Lautenberg a personal friend and a distinguished Jewish leader. My criticism, therefore, of his furious attack on Republican attitudes toward Obama...
Rwanda’s Genocide and Lessons America Hasn’t Learned for Syria
 Walking into the Ntarama Church outside Kigali and witnessing the scenes of mass slaughter that are all around you, I instantly began to gag and...
Why I’m Traveling To Rwanda in the Middle of My Congressional Campaign
I always promised myself that if I ever ran for public office I would highlight anti-genocide legislation as one of the principal planks of my...
