Posts Tagged: Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln’s Jewish Chiropodist and Spy: Issachar Zacharie
E. Lawrence Abel has written a timely, scholarly biography of Issachar Zacharie (various spellings), a mostly-forgotten Jewish figure from the American Civil War era. The lines...
Abraham Lincoln’s Secret Weapon
Earlier this week, at a raucous rally in Florida, President Trump cited a poll that he claimed showed him to be the most popular Republican...
A Jewish Perspective on Obama, Lincoln, and Gettysburg
In light of President Obama's recent drubbing in the midterm elections, the November 19th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address is a good time to see...
Opinion: President Obama’s Moral Ambiguity on Hamas
Elie Wiesel is one of my greatest heroes and I've been lucky to have a warm friendship with him. I would rarely consider disagreeing with...
Real Leaders Focus on the Future and Education
To gain insight into the unique leadership lesson of this week's parsha, I often ask an audience to perform a thought-experiment. Imagine you are the...
At Issue: My Struggle with Mein Kampf
Very few books change not only the lives of their authors, but the fate of the world. Abraham Lincoln acknowledged the enormous impact of Uncle Tom's...
Brad Meltzer: From Superman to the Everyman
Known as one of the men who shaped the "Superman" myth, bestselling Jewish author Brad Meltzer is just as impressed with the stories...
The Unbearable Lightness of Washington
"A house divided against itself cannot stand" - Abraham Lincoln. A dysfunctional Washington is a bad omen for the entire world, its timing catastrophic,...
Was God at Ground Zero?
I visited Ground Zero at midnight on the tenth anniversary of 9/11 and felt myself transported, as if by a time machine, back to that...
Steve Jobs and the Virtue of Failure
Winston Churchill famously said that "Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm." What Churchill didn't say,...
