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Nov 13, 2024, 3:44 AM

A Year of Service

A Year of Service In a moving speech a few months ago, Israel’s former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett asserted that the next 50 years will be the most successful and prosperous since Israel’s founding. The engine of this renaissance, he...

May 22, 2024, 7:53 AM

Will the ICC Prosecutor Cause Gazans to Die?

Many have explained that the ICC Prosecutor’s application for warrants to arrest Israeli leaders is both contrary to law and morally obscene. I feel compelled to add that it risks putting Gazans in more danger. The IDF has gone...

May 8, 2024, 6:00 AM

The Power of Tzedakah

One of the important ideas Judaism brought to the world is that giving charity is not only an admirable and pious act, but a duty. This week’s parasha speaks about the requirements of peah (i.e., leaving the corners of one’s...

Apr 22, 2024, 6:48 PM

What Is Slavery to You?

The Passover Haggadah speaks of four children: one righteous, one wicked, one simple, and one who does not even know how to ask a question. The child who is described as wicked asks, “mah ha-avodah ha-zot lachem?” The word...

Apr 8, 2024, 8:31 AM

US Mistakes Provide Perspective on the WCK Tragedy

In the dark of night in an active war zone, a military aircraft targets humanitarian aid workers. Their roof is clearly marked with their organization’s internationally-recognized name. They have coordinated their location carefully with all parties. Despite taking every...

Feb 13, 2024, 7:32 PM

Feeding Palestinians…and Israelis

The war that Hamas started on October 7, 2023 is taking a terrible toll on noncombatants. Palestinians in Gaza, as well as a wide swath of Israelis, are suffering from hunger. The international community has galvanized to feed hungry...

Jan 7, 2024, 2:18 PM

We Can Still Save the Hostages

After almost 100 days, we dare not allow hope to turn to despair. We will forfeit our humanity if we cease our struggle to save the hostages. Yesterday, synagogues around the world began reading the Book of Exodus. Two lessons...

Jan 2, 2024, 5:54 PM

Hamas Math: Literally Unbelievable

Since no reasonable person can deny Israel’s right to defend its citizens against mass murder, rape and mutilation by Hamas terrorists, current criticism of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) is necessarily based on the notion that an unreasonable number...

Dec 21, 2023, 11:08 PM

The Powerful Can Still Be Righteous

The antidote for today’s virulent incarnation of left-wing antisemitism lies, ironically, within Judaism itself. As Bari Weiss has explained, the current antisemitism of the ideological left is based on the simple conviction that the powerless (e.g., Hamas) must be good,...

Dec 5, 2023, 12:02 PM

Will Gazans Remember the Israelis Who Saved Them?

One of the terrible ironies of October 7 is that Hamas slaughtered and took hostage some of the Palestinians’ greatest supporters – Israeli peace activists, living in border communities, who worked tirelessly to promote a non-violent solution to the...

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About Me

Michael Rader is an attorney who focuses on patent and intellectual property litigation. Mike serves on the Board of Directors of American Friends of Leket Israel (which supports Israel’s National Food Rescue Organization, Leket Israel) and on the Board of Directors of Tzohar Israel Foundation (which supports Israel’s leading Modern Orthodox rabbinic organization, Tzohar). He and his family reside in the New York area.