Daniel Levinson

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Jan 24, 2019, 9:52 PM

A Dangerous Correlation

Recently the ombudsman concerning the status of our army issued a damaging report about its readiness. Another worrisome report by the immigration authorities stated that for the first time in the history of the state the majority of new...

Jan 12, 2018, 12:36 AM

Rabbi Rick Jacobs, Moshe Pipik and Knee-Jerk Partisan Judaism

As a 10-year-old in Brooklyn, I already knew about the horrific fate of both sides of our family in Poland. Even by that age I had already personally experienced enough anti-semitic violence to convince me that a Jewish country...

Jan 3, 2018, 9:44 PM

Building Bridges to the Moslems – Digging Tunnels to the Jews

Rabbi Rick Jacobs, President of the Union of Reform Judaism said that his group could not support moving the embassy without a comprehensive peace plan. I must remind the distinguished rabbi that there is a comprehensive peace plan, and...

Dec 9, 2017, 7:53 AM

The Stupification of The Forward: Becoming the Foghorn of the Secular Satmar

In 1988, shortly before Paul Novick, the last editor of the communist Morgen Freiheit died, I played a tape of a program I did on the Voice of Israel in Yiddish about his newspaper's support of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact...

Jan 20, 2017, 11:28 PM

National Survival is the Order of the Day

It is not only an absurdity but a national calamity that a Jewish soldier has been found guilty by Jewish judges of a Jewish army in the only Jewish country in the world for killing a Palestinian Arab pogromnik,...

Apr 14, 2016, 1:02 PM

Much Ado About Nothing — Farewell to a Wannabe Pogromnik

Some Israeli Prime Ministers and their Ministers of Defense have a flawed record of letting 18-21-year-old soldiers pay the price and shouldering the responsibility for their own shortcomings. I remember this most vividly during the first Intifada when the...

Mar 30, 2016, 6:06 PM

Encores to an Empty House

I was a combatant in the terrorist raid on Nahariya in 1979 which resulted in the brutal deaths of 4 Jews including 2 small children. One was accidentally smothered to death by its mother to prevent her from crying...

Mar 10, 2016, 8:02 PM

Getting Their Act Together

Among the worst criminals responsible for the Holocaust were not those German leaders convicted at Nuremberg, but Jewish ones condemned by indisputable historical evidence. Born in 1938, it was at a very early age that I overheard my family sadly...

Jan 18, 2016, 8:33 PM

Literary Pogroms – A Prelude to a Holocaust

For years Goebbels' pseudo-intellectual literary anti-Semitism not only justified and encouraged the Final Solution, but inspired its executioners who were rewarded with medals and promotions. Also for decades, intermittent Soviet media campaigns against the Jewish religion, Zionism, and even Jewish...

Jan 5, 2016, 9:04 PM

If London Bridge fell, it would never sink to the depths of the BBC’s journalistic standards

The earliest mention of London Bridge was in 1218 AD. Thus, King David's anointment as ruler in Hebron in 1001 BCE was only 2,200 years before the English could cross the Thames River without getting their feet soggy, and...

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About Me

Daniel Levinson is a U.S. Navy veteran, veteran of the Yom Kippur War, combatant in the terrorist raid of Nahariya, and the father of two reserve officers in the Israeli Army.