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Jun 30, 2025, 10:08 PM

These Columnists Doth Protest Too Much

Two progressive Jewish New York Times writers defend Mamdani against Jewish critics. “The lady doth protest too much, methinks,” Queen Gertrude says in Shakespeare’s “Hamlet,” variations of which have come to mean that denying something vigorously may well indicate hiding...

Jun 26, 2025, 7:29 PM

Reeling From Reality: From Mideast Mayhem to NYC Politics

In today’s world, ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ are fluid, and global events can dominate local politics. "All I do is play both sides.” Donald Trump, June 24. Sometimes the president actually speaks the truth. But it’s hard to tell when. And the...

Jun 13, 2025, 11:56 PM

Why Did Israel Attack Iran? The Media’s Dangerous Sin Of Omission

THAT most basic question is rarely asked. Or answered. Like many of you, I stayed up late Thursday night reading and watching the latest news about Israel’s dramatic air attack on Iran. As usual, mainstream American media failed to raise...

May 28, 2025, 9:25 PM

When Loyalty To Country Conflicts With Morality

In America and Israel today, we face painful choices between flag and faith. As an American Jew, I love and feel deep loyalty to two countries, the United States and Israel. But like many of us, I am deeply worried...

Apr 24, 2025, 9:14 AM

Introducing Israel’s 21st Century Pioneers

A small, growing number of young idealists are moving to the shattered south. They believe Israel’s future hinges on modeling a society of inclusion and tolerance. Within days after the barbaric Hamas attack of October 7, 2023, Roee Azizi, 28,...

Mar 13, 2025, 3:41 PM

Looking back after 50 years (gulp), Purim spoofs tell a story

Let’s face it, long before this year’s arrival of Purim, the holiday of v’nehafechu — opposites, inversions and ironies — the world already has turned upside-down and topsy-turvy. Examples abound. The leader of the world’s first and greatest democracy is...

Feb 27, 2025, 7:02 PM

For Caring Jews, Trump Is Both Angel And Devil

In dealing with a contradictory ally, Davd Ben-Gurion offered a creative approach worth noting. Many of us are truly grateful for President Trump’s full-voiced support for Israel in its conflict with enemies who seek its destruction. At the same time,...

Jan 22, 2025, 11:41 PM

Brave New Words: Taking God To Task For The Shoah

A prominent communal leader has written a dark, bitter response to The Book of Psalms in the hope that Holocaust remembrance will become an integral part of Jewish liturgy. Gary Rosenblatt Jan 22, 2025 Since Biblical days, Jews have not only sanctified...

Dec 6, 2024, 10:37 AM

‘The Triumph of Life’: An Inspiring Response to Eternal Questions

At 91, modern-day sage Rabbi Irving ‘Yitz’ Greenberg has written a magnum opus based on his faith in God – and humanity. In the mid-1960s, on my first day of college at Yeshiva University, I enrolled in Prof. Irving “Yitz”...

Nov 24, 2024, 7:26 AM

Not Your Conventional ‘Sabbath Queen’

Two decades in the life of Amichai Lau-Lavie, a spiritual Pied Piper for countless disenfranchised Jews, are captured on film in ways that will resonate deeply with many. Imagine a film whose Jewish characters include a Conservative rabbi, a Chasidic...

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Gary Rosenblatt, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, is the former editor and publisher of The Jewish Week of New York. Follow him as a free or paid subscriber at garyrosenblatt.substack.com.

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