Posts Tagged: Boteach Trump
It Was Wrong for Jewish Leaders to Attend Reckless Hanukkah Parties
In a recent op-ed, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach expressed surprise at the level of outrage directed at him over his appearance at the White House Hanukkah...
Directing Hatred Towards the Right Places
Last week, I attended the White House Hanukkah party, and some people wrote to attack me. The White House protocols were for everyone to be masked...
American Exceptionalism and Contradictions
By now, the world has concluded that America is insane. A crazy country filled with crazy people who have gone off the deep end. A...
America in Crisis
I was born in 1966, so I never witnessed the turmoil of that turbulent decade. But having read countless book on it, and spoken to...
New York Is a Model of Diversity, Tolerance and Justice
2020 will be remembered, among many things, as the year that brought New York to its knees. It began with the quarantines and the lockdowns,...
Visiting Auschwitz
Though I’ve been to Auschwitz countless times, it never grows easy or comfortable. But I keep returning, because I’m sure that the six million want...
Hate the ISIS Leader, but Don’t Rejoice at His Death
Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi is dead. He was a monster. The world is a much better place without him. He was one of those who...
Are Jared and Ivanka Good for the Jews?
It’s rare that I repeat an exact headline from The New York Times, but this is the title of an actual story that appeared this...
Jerusalem Expresses Gratitude to Donald Trump
By the time this column is published, the United States will have moved its Israeli embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. It has been an...
What a Difference an Administration Makes
Barack Obama is a moral man. But as president, he had an amoral foreign policy. Obama and his national security trio of John Kerry, Susan...
Trump Should End the Iran Nuclear Deal
On the day when Jews were celebrating Simchat Torah, US President Donald Trump was making history by speaking boldly against the Iran nuclear agreement. Trump decided not...
Trump Hammers UN Apathy and Amorality
What a shame that the NFL controversy over the national anthem drowned out what should have been President Donald Trump’s shining moment on the world...
President Trump, Where Is Your ‘Fire and Fury’ When It Comes to Nazis?
After calling some of the participants at a neo-Nazi march in Charlottesville “some very fine people,” President Donald Trump has a unique opportunity to re-establish...
Schizophrenic America
On Friday, I attended the inauguration of President Donald Trump, with hundreds of thousands of other fortunate witnesses to the peaceful transfer of unimaginable power. It...
