Shabbat shalom! First, a belated g’mar tov and a heartfelt hope that everyone enjoyed a good breaking of the fast after a steady diet of atonement. If ever there were a year that demanded repentance, reflection, and maybe an extra bagel with cream cheese schmear afterward, this was it. And since this is the season of honestContinue reading “The Jew News Review – October 4, 2025 – “From Fenway to Fat Bears to the Sounds of Hollywood Silence””
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The Jew News Review – Special Edition – September 30, 2025 – “Twenty Points, Zero Chance”
Shalom. The Trump administration has just unveiled its 20-point Gaza peace plan with the solemnity of a statesman and the customary swagger of the orange man child. The headlines include: hostages freed, Hamas disarmed, an international caretaker government installed. It all looks promising on paper, the kind of blueprint diplomats dream about. But we areContinue reading “The Jew News Review – Special Edition – September 30, 2025 – “Twenty Points, Zero Chance””
The Jew News Review – September 27, 2025 – “All the President’s Men, Can’t Put a Palestinian State Together Again”
Shabbat shalom! And a belated “tip of the kippah” to Robert Redford, a man whose faith in truth-telling, in independent voices, and in disciplined storytelling helped define modern journalism. But for me, All the President’s Men wasn’t just a movie. It inspired me in 1976 to change my college major from Business to English/Journalism and probably costContinue reading “The Jew News Review – September 27, 2025 – “All the President’s Men, Can’t Put a Palestinian State Together Again””
The Jew News Review – September 20, 2025 – “Rosh Hashanah 5786: God’s Startup, Still Pivoting”
Shabbat shalom! And Shanah Tovah to all! Rosh Hashanah is supposedly the “birthday of the world.” If you think of creation as a company launch, then this was God’s big IPO day – the cosmic ribbon cutting. Problem is, the founding product came with flaws baked in. The business plan looked visionary on paper, butContinue reading “The Jew News Review – September 20, 2025 – “Rosh Hashanah 5786: God’s Startup, Still Pivoting””
The Jew News Review – September 12, 2025 – “Lowering Our Stupidity Quotient (SQ) with Kindness”
Shabbat shalom. Oy vey iz mir, what a week. My heart goes out to the family of Charlie Kirk. Although he was a “steadfast friend of Israel”, he was better known as a man of far right conservative opinions, a flame thrower in the culture wars, and very popular with the younger generations. He wasContinue reading “The Jew News Review – September 12, 2025 – “Lowering Our Stupidity Quotient (SQ) with Kindness””
The Jew News Review – September 6, 2025 – “Day 700: Why Israel Can’t Afford a Fake Peace With Hamas”
Shabbat shalom! Sadly, we have just passed day 700 of Israel’s war with Hamas. Seven hundred days since October 7, 2023, the day Hamas carried out the largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. Seven hundred days of tunnels and rockets, funerals and rubble, endless cease-fire talks that, lately, yield nothing but more stalling. And aboveContinue reading “The Jew News Review – September 6, 2025 – “Day 700: Why Israel Can’t Afford a Fake Peace With Hamas””
The Jew News Review – August 29, 2025 – “We Are What We Celebrate!?”
Shabbat shalom! In his recent book, The Haves and the Have Yachts, Evan Osnos paints a grimly comic portrait of the billionaire class. I met Osnos recently at a book festival, and after his presentation, I asked him to compare the robber barons of the gilded age to today’s tech billionaires in terms of their levelContinue reading “The Jew News Review – August 29, 2025 – “We Are What We Celebrate!?””
The Jew News Review – August 23, 2025 – “The truth lies in the shadows”
Shabbat shalom! The horror in Gaza continues to rattle my sensibilities. I’m not sure what the F is going on there anymore. Thinking about the current situation there, I am reminded of the TV show “House” where the good, but cynical doctor House would admonish his staff about their patients, that “everyone lies”. That isContinue reading “The Jew News Review – August 23, 2025 – “The truth lies in the shadows””
The Jew News Review – August 16, 2025 – “Animal Farm Turns 80 – Have the Pigs Turned Kosher?”
Shabbat shalom! Growing up, I was not much of a reader. That was my sister’s domain (still is!). But my reading interests ticked up a bit after I was introduced to George Orwell’s Animal Farm, a deceptively breezy barnyard allegory published eighty years ago today. It was one of the first books that grabbed my attentionContinue reading “The Jew News Review – August 16, 2025 – “Animal Farm Turns 80 – Have the Pigs Turned Kosher?””
The Jew News Review – August 9, 2025 – “It’s time for Israel to “win the peace””
Shabbat shalom. JNR readers may have noticed that I have not been doing my usual roundup of the news in recent posts. My reason for doing so is that for the last few months, the issues facing Jews seem so awful, so dire and existential, that brief summaries don’t seem appropriate. So I take upContinue reading “The Jew News Review – August 9, 2025 – “It’s time for Israel to “win the peace”””
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