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Jul 24, 2017, 10:52 AM

Talk Amongst Yourselves

In the second or third wave of Saturday Night Live, Mike Myers posed as Linda Richman, who had a TV show called: Coffee Talk with Linda. Linda was wont to choke up and say, “Oy, I’m so faklempt, please,...

Jan 24, 2017, 6:22 AM

My Vision of the Women’s March

My wife and I have been on sabbatical in New York City from Israel since August, and are returning home in February. As one of the few true Zionists left (some of my pieces on the subject can be...

Dec 26, 2016, 9:05 PM

The Abstain on Obama’s Legacy

President Obama’s decision to abstain on the UN Security Council resolution declaring Israeli settlements on the West Bank illegal and an obstacle to peace, was a fitting end to his presidency. On both domestic and foreign policy, it has...

May 31, 2016, 10:39 AM

David Blatt and LeBron James: What a Difference a Year Makes

7 million fans watching their favorite Israeli basketball coach does not a totalitarian regime make

Aug 24, 2015, 4:56 PM

My Ben & Jerry’s belly ache

Vermont performers targeted the ice-cream makers for selling to Israel, and things went downhill from there

May 31, 2015, 7:05 PM

When Barack Obama was running for President in 2008 my wife and I couldn’t take the pie in the sky enthusiasm of many of our friends, olim from the US. Obama’s hollow, but PR polished exhortations about “change” were...

May 1, 2015, 12:43 AM

The real boycott of Israel

A one-word message to the American Jews who are staying away in droves: Aliya

Mar 28, 2015, 11:53 PM

Beinart Takes the J St Bypass

Last week, in the can someone please help liberal Israel corner that Haaretz has allotted him, Peter Beinart expressed his lack of patience with Israelis in re-electing Bibi and said time has come for Jews in the US to...

Mar 22, 2015, 7:32 AM

Many who supported the ouster of Benjamin Netanyahu as Israel’s prime minister have been seeking to blame somebody for his recent electoral victory. The obvious first target is Netanyahu himself, for appealing to the lowest paranoid instincts of his...

Mar 6, 2015, 5:41 PM

Eitan Cabel, a Labor Party (I still have trouble referring to the maladroitly named “Zionist Camp”) politician, responded to Bibi Netanyahu’s speech to Congress to the following effect: “No doubt Netanyahu is a great orator, but speeches don’t stop...

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David Chinitz is Professor of Health Policy and Management at the Braun School of Public Health, Hebrew University-Hadassah