Posts Tagged: Donald Trump
Why American Rabbis Should Work With Trump
In 1878, Austria-Hungary occupied Bosnia and Herzegovina. As the troops of the Hapsburg Empire came across the bridge on the Drina, representatives of the three...
An Open Letter to President Donald J. Trump
Dear President Trump, I find it extremely hard to call you “President Trump” because sadly for America, you neither act like a president nor speak like...
San Francisco’s American Jewish Committee and Trump
JNS.org - Michigan Governor George Romney used to quip during his election campaigns that under his leadership, the state had experienced more days of sunshine than...
Are Rabbis Right to Skip Trump Phone Call?
JNS.org - There probably has never been an easier path to consensus for the three major non-Orthodox rabbinic associations. The decision of the Central Conference of American...
Will Netanyahu Stand Up to Trump on Charlottesville?
JNS.org - During the eight years that he was saddled with President Barack Obama, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was bitterly criticized from the left by those...
What Elie Wiesel Would Have Told Trump
The late Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel stood up to Ronald Reagan when the 40th president visited the graves of Nazi war criminals in Bitburg, Germany in...
How Will History Remember Donald Trump and His Sycophants?
I was recently reminded of how memory can get blurred over time. When I mentioned to a young woman several months ago that I was eager to see...
Trump Encourages Right-Wing Antisemites, but They Also Exist on the Left
JNS.org - We live in a time when -- as the US State Department has noted -- a “rising tide of antisemitism” has swept across the globe. This has partly happened...
The Fake Society That Gave Us a Fake President
More and more commentators, politicians on both sides of the aisle, and ordinary citizens are waking up to the fake presidency of Donald Trump. His election victory was no accident, nor...
There Aren’t Two Sides: Conspiratorial Antisemitism, From Charlottesville to Palestine
In addition to the racism and xenophobia that was on display Saturday in Charlottesville, the ‘Unite the Right’ event represented a perfect example of what the Anti-Defamation...
An Open Letter to President Trump: Your Moral Equivalency Was Shameful
Dear President Trump, On Monday morning, I urged you to reconsider your exceptionally ill-chosen words of Saturday -- "on many sides" -- following the tragic events in Charlottesville. Shortly afterward, and...
Trump’s Charlottesville Response Shows Lack of Moral Compass
President Donald Trump’s moral compass isn’t working. The needle’s spinning wildly, but the leader of the free world just can’t find moral north. The latest example...
Trump’s Foreign Policy: The Light and the Darkness
JNS.org - As much as President Donald Trump enjoys taking a metaphorical sledgehammer to even the merest of slights against him, there is no reason to...
Ex-Israeli Diplomats: US State Department Whitewashes Palestinian Incitement
JNS.org - Two prominent former Israeli diplomats are charging that the US State Department is recycling parts of its old reports in order to whitewash the...
