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Jul 26, 2024, 12:54 AM

Not Another Futile Potemkin Peace

Peace should have been achieved in Gaza when Israel fully withdrew from Gaza in 2005, including removing any military presence and all Israeli residents. As the wise Charles Krauthammer ob”m wrote, “…Israel evacuated Gaza completely. It declared the border between Israel and Gaza an international...

Jun 14, 2024, 8:11 PM

Jerusalem On My Mind

It was over 3,000 years ago, when Biblical King David declared Jerusalem the capital of the Land of Israel. The attachment of the Jewish People to Jerusalem is unique and enduring. The Old Testament mentions Jerusalem more than six hundred and fifty times. The New...

May 23, 2024, 10:58 AM

PR in Pithy Sonata Form

Israel has been falsely accused of genocide by genocidal Hamasniks in a moral inversion that channels notorious Nazi propagandist Goebbels’ vile dictums, “Accuse the other of that you are guilty” and “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually...

May 6, 2024, 12:03 AM

Uncanny Parallels and Striking Contrasts-Antisemitism in 1930s and Now

As we mark Yom HaShoah, on Monday, May 6, 2024, I can’t help but reflect on the lessons my Father Z”L, a miraculous Auschwitz survivor, taught me about the Holocaust and what I learned over the years. In 1933, in Germany, college students were in...

Apr 4, 2024, 1:38 PM

There Are No Words

Aaron as the recently invested Kohen Gadol was called upon to inaugurate the newly assembled Tabernacle with a series of offerings, as recorded in the Torah reading of Parshat Shemini[i]. In the midst of the extraordinary proceedings, which included Aaron and Moses blessing the people...

Mar 29, 2024, 5:50 AM

Can’t Combat Antisemitism with an Incoherent Plan and Lack of Tangible Action

It’s ten months since the Biden-Harris Administration released its self-proclaimed ‘First Ever U.S. National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism’, with great fanfare. It has proved to be an abject failure. Many warned that the plan was fatally flawed from the onset, by including a muddled definition...

Feb 11, 2024, 11:38 PM

A Cruel Mockery of Justice

Embed from Getty Images South Africa instituted a case against Israel at the United Nations (UN) International Court of Justice (ICJ). The Application it filed and the failure of the ICJ summarily to dismiss the specious case are a cruel mockery of justice. Consider the...

Jan 30, 2024, 1:04 AM

Make Gaza Like Monaco – It begins with eliminating Hamas, PA and UNWRA

Gaza is blessed with a plethora of natural resources, including arable land, access to water and extensive natural gas deposits. It should be a wealthy and successful nation state like Monaco. Its location on the Mediterranean Sea and generally temperate and dry climate make it...

Jan 22, 2024, 2:40 AM

Israel is on the Front Lines of the War Against the US and Israel

The October 7, 2023, invasion of Israel by evil Hamas, backed by the Iranian Regime and Hamas’ brutal murder of approximately 1,200 Israelis, Americans and others, maiming of many thousands more, commission of horrendous atrocities and kidnapping at least 200 Israelis, Americans and others, including...

Dec 20, 2023, 3:36 AM

Reform Universities and Make Them Safe Again

There is a widespread consensus that the answers given by the Presidents of Harvard, Penn and MIT, at the recent Congressional hearing on antisemitism on campus, concerning whether calling for the ‘Genocide of the Jews’ violated their universities’ code of conduct or rules against bullying...

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About Me

Leonard Grunstein, a retired attorney and banker, founded and served as Chairman of Metropolitan National Bank and then Israel Discount Bank of NY. He also founded Project Ezrah and serves on the Board of Revel at Yeshiva University and the AIPAC National Council. He has published articles in the Banking Law Journal, Real Estate Finance Journal and other fine publications.