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””
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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 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”””
The Jew News Review – Special Edition – July 28, 2025 – ““Independence Day for Terror: France’s Gift to Hamas”
France has given the world so much to admire. The Enlightenment. Impressionism. The croissant. Existentialism, cinema, Sartre. And diplomacy itself, la diplomatie, not just in practice but in vocabulary. From détente to rapprochement, from chargé d’affairesto coup d’état, France has authored the lexicon of conflict resolution and international civility. It’s no accident that diplomats once trained in French and conducted negotiationsContinue reading “The Jew News Review – Special Edition – July 28, 2025 – ““Independence Day for Terror: France’s Gift to Hamas””
The Jew News Review – July 26, 2025 – “Two state solution: A hope, or a mirage?”
Shabbat shalom! In the aftermath of October 7, the world shifted—and yet, some cling to expired solutions. Chief among them is the so‑called “two‑state solution,” a diplomatic zombie at best, a strategic liability at worst. Once heralded as Israel’s only hope for peace, today it is not just obsolete but dangerous: counter‑productive, out of stepContinue reading “The Jew News Review – July 26, 2025 – “Two state solution: A hope, or a mirage?””
The Jew News Review – July 18, 2025 – “Diaspora Jews: “It’s not that easy being green””
Shabbat shalom! While the orange man continues his efforts to cancel Sesame Street, I thought it would be fitting to dedicate the theme of this post to one of my favorite Sesame characters, Kermit the Frog. Thanks for reading The Jew News Review! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. KermitContinue reading “The Jew News Review – July 18, 2025 – “Diaspora Jews: “It’s not that easy being green”””
The Jew News Review – July 11, 2025 – “From Topol to Glastonbury: How we went from cheering to jeering Jews”
Shabbat shalom! Let’s travel in the wayback machine to London, circa 1967. It’s just before the curtain rises on Fiddler on the Roof at a London theater, when Chaim Topol—Israel’s iconic Tevye—steps out before the audience. War had broken out back home. The Jewish state, surrounded by Arab armies vowing its destruction, was under existential threat. TopolContinue reading “The Jew News Review – July 11, 2025 – “From Topol to Glastonbury: How we went from cheering to jeering Jews””
The Jew News Review – June 28, 2025 – “We are all Israelis now”
Shabbat shalom! In a scorching recent essay titled “The New Populism of the Judeocidal Left,” British conservative columnist Melanie Phillips warned that Jews in Britain are now less safe than Israelis—and that’s saying something, considering Israelis just survived a 12-day war with Iran, a war that killed dozens of Israelis, and injured thousands from a barrage of aContinue reading “The Jew News Review – June 28, 2025 – “We are all Israelis now””
The Jew News Review – Special Edition – “Iran: The Beginning of the End?”
Shalom! Thanks for reading The Jew News Review! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. I was thinking of headlining this post with “Iran’s Lesson Learned: Don’t Fuck with these Jews!”, but decided to go with a more socially acceptable version. And, we shouldn’t gloat about the tremendous successes Israel hasContinue reading “The Jew News Review – Special Edition – “Iran: The Beginning of the End?””
The Jew News Review – June 21, 2025 – “Narrative Lost”
Shabbat shalom! As a Journalism/English major in college, I was required to take a course on Major British Writers where I had my first exposure to John Milton and his epic poem, Paradise Lost, which is all about the biblical fall of man. “The mind is its own place, and in itself / Can make a HeavenContinue reading “The Jew News Review – June 21, 2025 – “Narrative Lost””
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