Posts Tagged: Boteach
Ten Questions for Malcolm Hoenlein on Qatar
The story in The Jerusalem Post that Conference of Presidents Executive Vice Chairman Malcolm Hoenlein has broken ranks with Jewish leaders and decided to visit Qatar, meet the...
We Must Believe In and Build a European Jewish Future
I recently took a trip to Europe. After passing through the painful experiences of Polish Jewish history -- endless ghettos, death camps and mass graves -- we arrived in...
Obama’s Spinelessness and Trump’s Moral Courage on Castro
The death of Fidel Castro was the first foreign policy test for President-elect Donald Trump and he acquitted himself brilliantly. For anyone who thought that...
Why ISIS and Hamas Wear Masks
The biblical story of Saul teaches us a powerful lesson regarding the individual's moral choice and what that choice may lead to. In ancient Israel, as...
Judging Christie, Obama, and Kerry
The news that Governor Chris Christie will be delivering the keynote speech at our upcoming gala dinner on Lag B'Omer on May 18 at Cipriani...
Why Hillel is Failing in the Fight for Israel on Campus
Perhaps it's only fitting that we should end 2013 with the dumbest Jewish debate of the year, namely whether Swarthmore College's Hillel should be allowed...
The Spiritual Snake Oil Salesman
Many things may be said of Ayatollah Ali Khameini. That he is the world's foremost terrorist is born out by the simple fact that he is...
British Leaders Silent in Face of Anti-Israel, Anti-Semitic Rhetoric
In what's becoming a regular and predictable occurrence, yet another leading British politician recently attacked Israel and the American Jewish lobby. This time it was...
Adelson, Iran, and Double Standards
Last Tuesday. I organized an event in New York City at Yeshiva University that addressed the two existential threats confronting the Jewish people worldwide: a...
The Growing Extremism of Reform Leader Eric Yoffie
Rabbi Eric Yoffie is one of those courageous souls, prepared to throw stones while living in a glass house. Not content to criticize the Chabad...
Tefillin and Mezuzahs: The Art of the Scribe
I am a proud father of nine children, six girls and three boys. Although our family has been graced with many bat mitzvahs, we have...
The Spiritual Education of Cory Booker
Twenty-one years ago a young African-American Rhodes scholar walked into our Jewish student center at the University of Oxford in England. He had a date...
Rabbi Soprano, the Cattle Prod Divorce Specialist
And who said rabbis don't watch TV? In an incident right out of the Sopranos, two rabbis have been arrested by the FBI for allegedly running...
Three Ways to Save American Jewry From Extinction
By now you've heard about the Pew Research poll, published this week, which concludes that American Jewry is on its way to oblivion. No need...
