Posts Tagged: shmuley boteach
Reflections on Hiroshima and Hamas
Hiroshima, Japan - Having been in Seoul, South Korea, for a global peace summit and a speech I delivered at Olympic Stadium, I took the...
Are Rwandan Troops the Solution for Gaza?
What to do about Gaza and Hamas? How can Israel avoid a war of attrition - with Hamas endlessly firing rockets and Israel being forced...
Visiting the Parents of Murdered Israeli Teen Gilad Shaar
A day after the searing emotions of meeting IDF senior commanders on the Gaza border, I braced myself for something even more torturous. My family...
A View from Israel: Deathly Silence at the Gaza Border
It was a moving day. Almost too moving. And I don't know how to quite process the emotions. It began with a visit to Sderot, the...
Opinion: Slate’s Blood Libel Against Birthright Israel
We Jews know what a blood libel is. It captures false accusations that Jews are culpable for deaths they did not commit or are...
Don’t Forget Some Inconvenient Truths About the Rebbe
Twenty years ago this Tuesday, I awoke early in Oxford because I was taking a President of our L'Chaim Society named Cory Booker to Israel...
Obama Fiddles While the World Burns
Under President Obama, the world is becoming unstuck. Iraq is being overrun by Islamist terrorists and the United States is now evacuating its Baghdad embassy....
Why Orthodox Women Must Receive an Education
Dresden, Germany - The Sabbath is over late here in Germany. It ended at almost 11pm. I addressed a Jewish conference of hundreds of men and...
Why Judaism Should Seek Converts
On Shavuot we read the story of Ruth, the Moabite convert, who has the most eloquent speech of the entire Bible: "Where you go I...
Why Never Again Keeps Happening – Again and Again
Recently I recounted how I traveled a month ago to Rwanda at the invitation of President Paul Kagame to speak at Amohoro National Stadium for...
Monica Needs to Apologize to Hillary, Then Go Away
Monica Lewinsky is back in the news after a decade hiatus. She returned to tell us, as the headline of The New York Post put...
Women Want to be Chosen
A few weeks back, a reader wrote a letter that assailed my new book Kosher Lust where I argue that women want to be desired...
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...
Holocaust Denial and the Rwandan Genocide
No sooner had I returned from the twentieth anniversary commemorations of the Rwandan genocide in Kigali, than I saw Howard French's assault on the man...
