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””
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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”””
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”””
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