What to pray for on Rosh Hashana
Fools think that there is nothing to pray for. They are absolutely confident in themselves and convinced that they are in control of their lives. But in reality, our health, happiness and security are...
View ArticleWhy We Are Winning!
The Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron This is the text of a dinner talk I gave this past Friday night in Hebron on “Why Israel in Winning” and “Defeating the Campaign to Delegitimize Israel.” The talk...
View ArticleJ Street’s Conceit
Published in Israel Hayom, March 14, 2012 J Street is at it again. Undermining Israel. Its annual conference in Washington next week is to trumpet the insidious message: “Tell President Obama thank you...
View ArticleZeidy’s Kvitel
"Zeidy": Prof. Zvi Meir (Henry) Weinberg z"l Published in Israel Hayom on Yom Hashoah, 27 Nissan 5772, April 19, 2012. Click for a printer friendly copy. This true personal story is about a kvitel, a...
View ArticleA debate on “Israel Hayom” and democracy in Israel
Is Sheldon Adelson’s “Israel Hayom” newspaper killing the Israeli press and endangering Israeli democracy, or ensuring Israeli democracy by guaranteeing media heterogeneity? A debate between me and Ori...
View ArticleLetter to My American Jewish Brothers about Obama
Israelis want Romney elected President, not Obama. This so jarringly stands in sharp contrast to the love and adulation of Obama expressed overwhelmingly by our American Jewish brothers and sisters....
View ArticleOn Combating Anti-Semitism
Print-friendly copy Published in Israel Hayom, May 27, 2013. Imagery and language that fits nicely with the Protocols of the Elders of Zion is becoming commonplace in the Gaza and Ramallah press. This...
View ArticleAwaken, American Jewry!
Published in The Jerusalem Post and Israel Hayom, Friday, November 15, 2013. Print-friendly copy What will it take to rouse American Jewry into action against Obama’s drift towards a grand...
View ArticleThe Helmsley impact
Sandy Frankel of the Helmsley Trust is an accidental philanthropist with a well-developed approach to giving. He seeks to invest in Israel’s strength and scientific progress, without boycotting or...
View ArticleRefugee ruminations
Published in The Jerusalem Post and Israel Hayom, September 11, 2015. Print-friendly copy The Syrian crisis requires a deep re-think of Western defense, diplomatic and humanitarian policies....
View ArticleBeware the pyromaniacs
Published in The Jerusalem Post on November 25, 2016, and in Israel Hayom on November 27, 2016. Radical activists are threatening to burn down the edifice of Israel-Diaspora relations. Palestinian...
View ArticleA profligate potpourri of anti-Semitic problems
Published in The Jerusalem Post and Israel Hayom, March 23, 2018. Print-friendly copy I offer here a historical review of Israeli government attitudes towards the phenomena of anti-Semitism, and take a...
View ArticleTallit and tefillin, Shabbat and kashrut
Published in The Jerusalem Post and Israel Hayom, June 15, 2018. Print-friendly copy On Israel-Diaspora “distancing”: Nothing short of a deep commitment to traditional Jewish ritual practice is likely...
View ArticleA tribute to Charles Krauthammer
Published in The Jerusalem Post and Israel Hayom, Friday June 22, 2018 Print-friendly copy A final conversation that I was privileged to have with the greatest columnist of this generation, who passed...
View ArticleHold the heated rhetoric, please
Published in The Jerusalem Post (under the title “Stick to the facts”) and Israel Hayom, August 3, 2018. Print-friendly copy Israeli democracy has strong institutions and foundations, and there are...
View ArticleThe most interesting Jews of 5779
Published in The Jerusalem Post and Israel Hayom, September 7, 2018. Print-friendly copy Significant Jews to follow over the coming year: Alon Davidi, Mirit Shaked-Barak, Zeev Elkin, Yair Golan,...
View ArticleIsrael’s role in the struggle against anti-Semitism
Published in The Jerusalem Post and Israel Hayom, November 2, 2018. Print-friendly copy It is a big mistake on the part of some US Jews to politicize the fight against anti-Semitism. Keep partisan...
View ArticleStill pro-Israel?
Published in The Jerusalem Post and Israel Hayom, December 21, 2018. Print-friendly copy Some hard-left Jews are out to sabotage the Birthright program. They are cutting away the limb – love for, and...
View ArticleSage warnings
Published in The Jerusalem Post, December 27, 2019. My father, Prof. Henry Weinberg, warned decades ago of a snowballing assault on Israel as an “apartheid” and “illegal” state; and of enemy attempts...
View ArticleBest books of 2019
Published in The Jerusalem Post, January 24, 2020. Print-friendly copy Seventeen recommended new books on Israeli and Jewish matters – on fighting antisemitism, Israel-Diaspora relations, defense...
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