Anyone remember the Jewish Defense League? Not to be confused with the Anti-Defamation League, the JDL was founded by Meir Kahane, a New York Orthodox rabbi who went on to become a Knesset member in 1984. His party was later outlawed by Israel for advocating the kinds of things that modern Israeli right-wingers only talk about doing on days that end in “y.” Kahane was assassinated on a trip to New York but his legacy lives on. In Israel his… Read more

Two straight days of blogging here. The impending inauguration must be messing with me. I thought I’d share something that I received from some “helpful” Jewish supporters of Trump who thought that this would somehow bring me around. It’s a video made by that great Jewish leader Jackie Mason in which he takes on Hollywood for its pretty much mass denunciation of Trump. Displaying what may be a never-before-experienced degree of hypocrisy, he rails against their low character (really!) and disrespect for our new Orange Overlord. I can… Read more

It was back in August that I blogged here for the last time. I wrote about the Jewish community’s reaction to the Movement for Black Lives after publication of a platform critical of Israel. Then the campaign ramped up and I just gave up on blogging. What more could I add to the national discourse? What did I have to say that thousands hadn’t said already? This is the frustration of blogging. It provides evidence of Kohelet’s (Ecclesiastes’) proverb that… Read more