Jordan Friedman

Independence Day is observed in the wrong month. Celebrating American independence on July 4 fails to appreciate that the document promulgated by Congress on...

Rahm Emanuel will never be president of the US. That was true even before his perfidious appearance on Real Time With Bill Maher in which he turned his back on a lifetime of support for Israel in the vain hope that he might somehow gain favor with the ascendant hate-fueled base of the Democratic party. 

Wars are unpredictable. It’s part of what makes war so dangerous. Nothing goes exactly according to plan, especially in the absence of a plan. With strategic carelessness, outcomes of wars are reduced to games of chance, or opportunities for those who are prepared to take advantage of them. Every war exposes fools and foolishness in preparation, execution and aftermath. Wars also reward the cunning.

Last month, in an apparent oversight, the 92nd Street Y in New York did not invite me to deliver its State of World Jewry address. Instead, they went with Bret Stephens of The New York Times. Although he’s also a very good choice, I feel obliged to remedy the shortcomings in his presentation.

I’m right a lot. 
 I know that can be frustrating for those who disagree with me and I feel for you, but such is life, as they say. Of all the columns I have written, the one that has elicited the most direct and consistently critical feedback was one in which I was as right as I have ever been. Sorry critics. Back in September I professed my Bo-lief. Cynics have chided me for months.