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A “tip of the kippah” this week to Fyodor Dostoevsky, patron saint of tortured souls and men who overthink everything except their own violence. His masterpiece, Crime and Punishment, begins with a murder, but the real brutality isn’t the axe, it’s the moral derangement that follows. Raskolnikov commits the crime; the world behaves as if the victimContinue reading “The Jew News Review – Special Diplomacy Issue – November 25, 2025 – “Gaza, Ukraine and Dostoevsky: Crimes Without Punishment””

Shabbat shalom. It was a revealing week on opposite sides of the globe. In the United States, the Epstein email release dominated the news cycle like a chemical spill from a septic tank, confirming yet again that many of our “pillars of society” were actually just frequent-flyer degenerates with expensive legal teams. The documents didn’tContinue reading “The Jew News Review – November 15, 2025 – “American Decay vs. Israeli Renewal: A Tale of Two Democracies””

Shabbat shalom! I’m taking the week off to visit with family.  There really wasn’t much to write about anyway, just the incredibly horrendous shit which is now considered “normal”: Masked ICE agents snatching people off the street, the National Guard sent into major cities on the obviously false pretense that these cities are shit holesContinue reading “The Jew News Review – October 25, 2025 – “Oy, I need a break””

Shabbat shalom. Political junkie David Axelrod once quipped that he wasn’t sure if history had a sense of justice, but that it certainly had a sense of humor. I’m starting to think history also has the social skills of a drunk uncle at a bar mitzvah. So, despite the challenge to my gag reflex, aContinue reading “The Jew News Review – October 11, 2025 – “The Art of the Uneasy Peace””

(October 7, Two Years Later) Two years after October 7, the test is no longer just for Israel’s survival, but for the soul of the Jewish people — whether we still stand together when the world looks away. Two years ago this week, the gates of hell opened on a Saturday morning. It was theContinue reading “The Jew News Review – Special Edition – October 7, 2025 – “The Test Within The Test””

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””

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””