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Not exactly Monopoly money, but fun

Here is a very little, fun and simple thing that puts a smile on people’s faces. Golden dollar coins and the two dollar bill. It is my father’s shtick, and […]

70 years since Babi Yar

Seventy years ago, almost to the day, some 33,000 Jews were murdered in Babi Yar, a ravine near Kiev. The Babi Yar numbers are numbing — equivalent to ten 9/11s...

Cutting your national nose

Spring has sprung and the palm trees of Egypt are suddenly sodden, or sick, or something. New freedom in Egypt means cutting your exports of hundreds of thousands of...

‘Even paranoids have enemies’

Henry Kissinger, former Secretary of State back in the paranoid Nixon days, once delightfully said (of Nixon, we suppose): “Even paranoids have enemies.” Yes, they do....

Guns and marijuana don’t mix

Many are bent out of shape over a federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives letter sent to gun sellers. The government wrote to gun sellers that it is...

A ‘Judenrein’ Palestinian state

I think we can all say, regardless of our point of view, that this past week was a big week for the Jewish people. It did feel larger than life […]

Pardon me!

Whether an uncovered sneeze or egregious action is at fault, ‘tis the season to be sorry. Some of us habitually apologize, even in the absence of wrongdoing. Others...

Kudos to Obama and Netanyahu for two phenomenal speeches at the UN

I. President Obama The cynics will say that President Obama’s speech on behalf of Israel at the UN last week was motivated by electoral concerns — he got the message...

Five media myths about Israel

I WAS asked to speak on “Israel in the Secular Press” at a community briefing last Sunday, called in light of the crisis at the UN, the Palestinian attempt at...

Palestinians want peace, but not with Jews

ABOUT five years ago, I was invited by the Hoover Institution to lecture at Stanford University over the course of a week. Coincidentally, Israel’s Independence Day...