Eugene Korn

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Jun 9, 2024, 6:26 PM

The Death of Genocide

Since October 7 “genocide” has rolled effortlessly off our tongues. To Israelis, Hamas’s murder, rape, and kidnapping of more than 1,200 people prove that Hamas is committed to its goals of making Palestine Judenrein through violent jihad and exterminating...

Nov 30, 2023, 9:43 PM

Something rotten at Columbia

To Minouche Shafik, President Columbia University I am an alumnus of Columbia, having earned a doctorate in ethics from its Department of Philosophy in 1973. I have always been proud of that degree and the invaluable education Columbia gave me. At Columbia,...

Sep 11, 2023, 7:23 AM

The end of the beginning

Your ministers are rogues and cronies of thieves; Every one is avid for bribes and greedy for gifts; They do not judge the case of the orphan, and the widow’s cause never reaches them. (Isaiah 1:23) Israel is in severe political crisis, her...

Mar 13, 2023, 1:08 PM

From Zion came forth sacrilege

“Their weapons are tools of lawlessness. Let not my soul be included in their council and let not my being be counted in their assembly. When angry they slay a man, and when pleased they maim an ox. Cursed...

Jul 6, 2022, 11:17 AM

To Presbyterian Church USA: Your anti-Israel resolution bears false witness

Flyer for the PCUSA General Assembly, 2022. (Facebook)

Why demonizing Israel as an apartheid state would be a poor decision for PCUSA - and 5 constructive steps to help Palestinians to take instead

Aug 5, 2021, 12:08 PM

Dear Anuradha, I’d love to hear more about your moral principles

Montage: Anuradha Mittal (Courtesy) / Ben & Jerry's (Times of Israel)

Given your public support for BDS, it seems your problem is not with the territories, it’s with Tel Aviv

Jul 14, 2021, 12:18 PM

God doesn’t wear a Borsalino

Illustrative. Ultra-Orthodox men. (Yehoshua Yosef/Flash90)

God may be in Bnei Brak, but God is also in Israel's policy-making government offices, pushing justice, fairness, and well-being for the entire Jewish people

Mar 29, 2021, 6:21 PM

We all are aware that Jews have been exceptionally prominent in shaping modern culture. While they are only 0.2% of the world’s population, Jews comprise 22% of all Nobel Laureates. Israelis are only .1% of the world population, yet...

Jan 20, 2021, 9:32 AM

The exceptional Judaism of Jonathan Sacks

The Prince of Wales called Lord Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, “A Light to the Nations”. Rabbi Sacks was also “a Light to the Nation” — his nation, the people of Israel. Rabbi Sacks had a feverish compulsion to teach, to write,...

Dec 16, 2020, 4:11 PM

We Are Not Alone

Book Review: Maimonides the Universalist: The Ethical Horizons of the Mishneh Torah by Menachem Kellner and David Gillis (Littman Library of Jewish Civilization; 368 pages, $46.85) Israel, the Jewish people, and Jewish thinkers have always been caught in the struggle...

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About Me

Rabbi Dr. Eugene Korn is an ethicist living in Jerusalem. His most recent book is Israel and the Nations: The Bible, the Rabbis, and Jewish-Gentile Relations (Academic Studies Press)