Shmuley Boteach
ARTICLES BY: Shmuley Boteach
Political Detox in the American Sabbath
I am writing this column in McCarthy, Alaska, surrounded by mountains rising almost 20,000 feet and glaciers more than five miles thick. I’m at the...
Orthodoxy and Gay Conversion Therapy
Over the weekend, Israeli Education Minister and Bayit Yehudi leader Rabbi Rafi Peretz trod gleefully upon a social-political landmine in affirming his belief in the...
When Presidential Candidates Refuse to Hate Evil
Last week, presidential candidate Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) was asked whether he would meet Louis Farrakhan, the Nation of Islam leader. Cory’s response: “I don’t...
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Desecrates the Holocaust
Holocaust memory is dying in America. A recent poll discovered that 22 percent of American millennials don’t know what the Holocaust is and an astounding two-thirds...
With Amir Ohana, Israel Has Justice at Last
The events of the past few weeks have commented cynically on the Israeli political system. After a bitter and turbulent election season, Prime Minister Netanyahu...
Germany Tells Jews to Take Off Their Yarmulkes
I visited Birkenau last week for the 75th anniversary of the deportation of Elie Wiesel to Auschwitz. Over the last two summers, I have taken my...
75 Years Since Elie Wiesel Was Sent to Auschwitz
Seventy-five years ago this week, Elie Wiesel was deported from Sighet, Romania -- a small town in the Carpathian mountains -- at the age of...
Is Congressman Nadler’s Obsession With Trump Endangering His Jewish Constituents?
Antisemitism is on the rise in the United States and we have now had, in the space of six months, two horrific shootings where Jews...
A Lawsuit Over Ilhan Omar’s Photograph Won’t Silence Me
To Ilhan Omar’s photographer: I first heard of you when one of our staff members told me that someone had called looking for the person he...
The Old York Times
The city of York in England was the site of one of the grisliest mass murders of Jews in medieval times. Antisemitism was being stoked...
Time to Dump the Failed Two-State Solution
For just about as long as there have been efforts to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, calls for a two-state solution have choked the global conversation....
Shmuley Boteach: What’s Behind My Dispute With Alan Dershowitz
My dispute with Alan Dershowitz over Qatar is nothing personal -- as some have foolishly suggested -- but rather cuts to the core of Jewish...
Alan Dershowitz Should Come Clean About Qatar
Alan Dershowitz published a blistering response to my column asking him why he was publicly pressuring Israel to create a Palestinian state when he would...
Why is Alan Dershowitz Pressuring Israel for a Palestinian State?
The results of Israel’s recent election have left us with one unmistakable takeaway: Israelis support Netanyahu. Despite multiple predictions of defeat — including in an exit...
