Menachem Rosensaft

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Nov 3, 2024, 4:48 AM

A Trump victory will destroy American democracy

I cannot for the life of me comprehend how any Jew, let alone a Holocaust survivor or a descendant of a Holocaust victim or survivor, could vote for Donald Trump who espouses the fascist ideology that enabled the Holocaust...

Oct 15, 2024, 5:49 AM

Columbia Magazine’s Troubling Silence on Antisemitism

I have read the fall 2024 issue of Columbia Magazine, the glossy publication sent to around 350,000 of the university’s graduates, cover to cover. I did so as an alumnus with two Columbia degrees – an M.A. in contemporary...

Oct 7, 2024, 1:47 PM

october 7 mourning in fury

we mourn not in sorrow but in fury for jewish children savagely murdered by hamas fathers of children we mourn not in sorrow but in fury at the wanton viciousness of the hamas predators palestinian islamic jihad predators who laughed as they raped tortured jewish women before slitting their throats we mourn not in sorrow but...

Sep 14, 2024, 10:31 PM

The Jewish antisemite on Trump’s plane

Laura Loomer - photo credit: Gage Skidmore

Who’d a thunk, who would ever have thunk that we would wax nostalgic for Stephanie Clifford aka Stormy Daniels, but just about now, most of us – standard-issue non-MAGA Republicans above all – would be much happier if it...

Sep 1, 2024, 2:20 PM

Israel’s very soul lies in the balance

Benjamin Netanyahu and all the other members of Israel’s security cabinet except for Defense Minister Yoav Gallant have Hersh Goldberg-Polin’s blood and the blood of the other murdered hostages — Eden Yerushalmi, Ori Danino, Alex Lubnov, Carmel Gat, and...

Aug 25, 2024, 3:15 PM

Kamala Harris is the ‘pro-Jewish candidate’

Zealots — true believers — are far worse than merely dangerous. They can be, to seriously mix metaphors here, ideological pied pipers who lead gullible, not to say dumb, lemmings into the sea. Melanie Phillips, the reactionary columnist featured regularly...

Aug 23, 2024, 6:06 PM

Trump’s antisemitism exposed

Former President Donald Trump unmasked himself as a crude antisemite in one of his latest Truth Social screeds by referring to Governor Josh Shapiro as “the highly overrated Jewish governor” of Pennsylvania. Perhaps this is a welcome sign that he...

Aug 19, 2024, 7:25 PM

Why Tim Walz is everything Donald Trump is not

Holocaust survivor and education activist Dora Zaidenweber, (seated left) is given a standing ovation by Minnesota Gov. and Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz (center) in June 2023. (Darrell Owens Photography via JTA)

Enough with the faux outrage already. Having failed abysmally to smear the military record of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz – he served honorably for 24 years in the Army National Guard – the most potent thing that the Republican...

Aug 10, 2024, 1:58 AM

Reclaiming Zionism

If a minister of any government anywhere in the world had said that they would consider the murder of any number of Jews — let alone millions — morally justifiable for any reason whatsoever, one would have heard screams...

Aug 5, 2024, 8:13 AM

Netanyahu makes Macbeth look positively benign

President Joe Biden is absolutely right to be furious at the realization that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lied to him regarding the latter’s professed willingness to agree to a deal to bring home those hostages from Hamas’ October 7...

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Adjunct professor of law at Cornell Law School and lecturer-in-law at Columbia Law School.