David Chinitz

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Feb 7, 2023, 12:28 AM

Ecclesiastes? The Federalist? Give me a break!

Prime Minister Netanyahu has been busy giving interviews in the foreign media, putting on his display of clever dissemblance and faux congeniality. He snowed Bari Weiss, usually a hard talk type, and Jordan Pederson, who came off as an...

Dec 22, 2022, 5:56 PM

On the fourth day of Chanukah, Zelensky said to me…

On the fourth day of Chanukah, Volodymyr Zelensky addressed a joint session of the US Congress. After a decade or more of American boomers, like myself, wringing hands and wondering what happened to the America we thought we knew,...

May 23, 2022, 8:55 AM

What do you mean, ‘we’?

A while back I visited the new museum, “Anu” (Us). For years I heard great things about its predecessor, The Diaspora Museum, but procrastination and forgetfulness caused me to miss it. As punishment, I suffered disappointment from Anu. Anu didn’t...

Sep 25, 2021, 9:31 PM

An Open Letter to Bari Weiss

Dear Ms Weiss, It may provide you some professional satisfaction to know that a group of Jerusalemites frequently alert each other to your articles. Your recent piece, “Everybody Hates the Jews,” was forwarded to us by one of our group...

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...

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About Me

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