Last Monday evening, two very different groups gathered at Paris’ famed Cinémathèque française. While smartly dressed film directors and actors quickly filed through the front doors, dozens of warmly dressed protestors — along with two largely undressed members of the militant feminist group Femen — milled outside. Many carried signs that riffed on the message,…
The following is testimony presented before the House Judiciary Committee about proposed speech codes on November 7, 2017. It is increasingly common to hear reports that a “new anti-Semitism” threatens to endanger Jews on a scale not seen since the second World War and the Holocaust. Studies from several major Jewish organizations have sounded the…
On stage at the national conference of the Israeli-American Council, Israel’s hawkish deputy minister of foreign affairs, Tzipi Hotovely, seemed surprised, and then annoyed, as the crowd turned against her. Hotovely had likely expected to find a friendly audience among the Israeli-Americans. Their organization’s leading donor, Sheldon Adelson, is America’s best-known pro-Israel hawk. But within…
Like the overwhelming majority of Jewish women, I voted for Hillary Clinton. Her experience and competence as a Senator and Secretary of State, and then as a career politician who nonetheless seemed to believe in public service and democratic values earned my support. I was drawn to her lifelong insistence that women’s rights are human…
A vicious underground social media war is rocking a City Council race in the Brooklyn ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Boro Park — and the nastiest blows are in Yiddish. Waged largely on private WhatsApp groups, the fight between Kalman Yeger and Yoni Hikind is largely hidden from the general public. The combatants are largely anonymous, with…
I am a much better parent in public. When I am home alone with my children, I am quick to anger and slow to forgive. When my son spills his water for the second time during dinner, I grow exasperated and yell at him instead of helping him find a better place for his cup;…
A century ago, 67 words changed the course of history in the Middle East. In a statement that could fit into two tweets, Arthur Balfour, then the British Foreign Secretary, announced that the British government would support establishing a national home for the Jewish people in Palestine. One hundred years later, the profound legacy of…
Joey Siegel was against bringing the “alt-right” provocateur Mike Cernovich to Columbia University, but was overruled by his fellow members of the College Republicans student executive board. The fears of Siegel, who was slammed in threatening campus flyers that were plastered across campus, were proved correct when Cernovich drew what one security official described as…
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