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Aug 20, 2024, 6:33 AM

A case study of how the media loses consumer trust

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Distrust of the media spreads wider when bad journalism originates at the first link in the chain: the mass, wholesale providers of news content that supply thousands of newspapers, radio, TV, and social media outlets. When the Associated Press,...

Jul 28, 2024, 2:45 AM

No Summer Surprise: A Blockbuster Sequel of Lies

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Lies will surely be leveled against Israel's response to Hezbollah; they will mirror the lies made against Israel's response to Hamas As the death toll mounts from Saturday’s Hezbollah strike against a soccer field, the simmering war between it and Israel...

May 28, 2024, 8:05 AM

Non-Tentative: 10 Signs Your Tents Camouflaged a Campus Con

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Unauthorized anti-Israel tent encampments sprung up across American campuses this past spring. They were cesspools of hate, intimidation, and criminality. Neither their irrelevant pleas of “free speech” nor childish chants of “power to the people” could camouflage that these...

Mar 28, 2024, 5:26 AM

Wrestling with, not diminishing, the claim of 30,000 Gazans killed

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Gazans killed since October 7 greatly outnumber Israelis killed. That is a fact, not an indictment. Anti-Israel voices exploit that fact to enhance empathy for Palestinians, plead for an unconditional ceasefire, and demonize Israel with charges of ethnic cleansing. The Hamas-controlled...

Mar 23, 2024, 11:08 PM

The non-Jewish ‘Jews’ of Israel

Druze religious and community leaders, security officials, and IDF officers accept 16 security kits donated by JUF and the International Fellowship of Christian and Jews (IFCJ). IFCJ photo, with permission.

They were with us during our Exodus. They still are. Most of Jewish history was living as a minority in other people’s countries. When given the opportunity we proved to be loyal, contributing members, if not always citizens. Today, the Jewish...

Feb 4, 2024, 11:41 PM

Tongue-tied by Hamas’s lies? Unravel both with the truth.

You encounter their provocative lies everywhere, from online to on campus. They are the catchphrases that Hamas’s supporters shamelessly peddle to recruit allies by demonizing Israel and lionizing Hamas. Many become tongue-tied trying to respond. But the truth is kryptonite to their...

Dec 1, 2023, 7:50 PM

An illustrated Guide for the Perplexed

Discerning the dog whistles of Hamas’ Chicago supporters Eight hundred years ago Maimonides’ “Guide for the Perplexed” illuminated the compatibility of Judaism with the new sciences. His insights broke through the darkness, shedding a clarifying light for the perplexed. Today, Hamas...

Mar 31, 2023, 6:11 AM

Why Bibi Blinked

A 2nd speculation based on Netanyahu’s new autobiography “My Story” His understanding of earlier intra-Jewish crises likely informed his delaying judicial reform A week ago, in “Bibi Will Blink,” I got the headline correct and the fine print wrong. Prime Minister Benjamin...

Mar 22, 2023, 6:41 PM

Bibi Will Blink

A prediction based on Netanyahu’s new autobiography “My Story” What he writes about, and doesn’t, provides clues to how the judicial reform crisis might end The Israeli government’s tsunami of proposed judicial reforms is both surging forward and subject to shifting...

Feb 8, 2023, 10:14 PM

A truly bewildering global personality

Book Review: Kreisky, Israel, and Jewish Identity, by Daniel Aschheim, Ph.D. A true story: A Jew fled his homeland one step ahead of the Nazis, returning after the war. Within 15 years he became his country’s foreign minister and then chancellor. Under...

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Jay Tcath is Executive Vice President of the Jewish United Fund.