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””
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The Jew News Review – July 4, 2025 – “A stench wafts over July 4”
Shabbat shalom! This is a short post this week since we are traveling with family. It’s the 4th of July, and we are heading to Staunton center to watch the annual parade of flag draped trucks, local politicians, and kitschy floats. But this year, celebrating our country feels different. While I still love this country,Continue reading “The Jew News Review – July 4, 2025 – “A stench wafts over July 4””
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””
The Jew News Review – June 14, 2025 – “The wings of a butterfly”
Shabbat shalom. I watched a lot of CNN yesterday. To hear the details of Israel’s military prowess was at times inspiring, but seeing missiles eluding the iron dome and falling on Tel Aviv was just awful and hard to watch. Israel’s “preemptive” attack on Iran’s nuclear capabilities was a long time coming, but the outcomeContinue reading “The Jew News Review – June 14, 2025 – “The wings of a butterfly””
The Jew News Review – June 7, 2025 – “Gaza Ceasefire Theater: Why “Peace Now” and “not this” could be a suicide pact”
Shabbat shalom! Despite the insane headlines spinning our heads this week like Linda Blair’s in the Exorcist, I am choosing to ignore the national embarrassment of the petulant children in the Presidential playpen as well as the threat of Bibi’s coalition collapsing under the weight of 50,000 IDF draft notices sent this week to eligible Haredim. Instead,Continue reading “The Jew News Review – June 7, 2025 – “Gaza Ceasefire Theater: Why “Peace Now” and “not this” could be a suicide pact””
The Jew News Review – Special Edition – “simply because they were Jews”
On the day of Shavuot, a day to commemorate the delivery by Moses of a book that is foundational to western civilization, a supporter of Hamas used a flame thrower and molotov cocktails to burn Jews, “simply because they were Jews”. The victims had gathered at a Jewish community event in Boulder, Colorado, held inContinue reading “The Jew News Review – Special Edition – “simply because they were Jews””
The Jew News Review – May 31, 2025 – “Are you “living Jewish”? Or just “feeling Jewish”?”
Shabbat shalom! This week’s Tip of the Kippah goes to the management at Marriott Bonvoy in Virginia, who took a principled stand by barring antisemitic conspiracy crank Stew Peters from speaking at an event hosted by the USS Liberty Veterans Association. While others waffle in the face of fringe bigotry disguised as “veteran advocacy,” Marriott chose menschkeitContinue reading “The Jew News Review – May 31, 2025 – “Are you “living Jewish”? Or just “feeling Jewish”?””
The Jew News Review – May 24, 2025 – “More dead Jews”
Shabbat shalom. What a horrible week. Just when I thought things couldn’t get much worse, here we are. On Wednesday night, two young Israel embassy staffers in Washington, DC were gunned down outside the Capital Jewish Museum by a man shouting, “I did it for Gaza!” Let’s not pretend this is an isolated incident. Let’sContinue reading “The Jew News Review – May 24, 2025 – “More dead Jews””
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