Russel Neiss
By Russel Neiss
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Opinion The Jewish Community Shuts Down Extremists On The Left. Why Tolerate Them On The Right?
Last May, I was perplexed and amused to see Mort Klein, head of the Zionist Organization of America, respond to an article posted on Twitter about “sex robots.” In a since-deleted tweet, Mort lamented that they didn’t exist while he was in high school, because he apparently was not the suavest with women at that…
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Opinion Israel Just Decided To Expel African Refugees. So Much For ‘Never Again’
In 1939, my grandmother left Vienna with her sister, parents and the few belongings they could carry and headed by ship, east to Shanghai. They were among tens of thousands of Jewish refugees fleeing the violence of Naziism who would make the city their home for the next several years. They lived in a single…
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