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Dec 3, 2024, 10:59 AM

When Tragedy Strikes Chabad, It Strikes Us All

This week marked the annual “Kinus Hashluchim” in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, a gathering of all the Chabad - Lubavitch Rabbis from across the globe. Normally this would be a cause for well-deserved celebration, but this year it was more...

Nov 26, 2024, 10:33 AM

The Pope & The ICC’s Complicit Path to Hypocrisy and Injustice

•The International Criminal Court’s stance on neutrality proves that not only is its justice blind, but it is also incredibly stupid Recent developments with the International Criminal Court have magnified the global pandemic of hypocrisy proving once again how neutrality...

Nov 19, 2024, 3:26 PM

Problem solved: The Haredi path to military service

A novel approach to the ultra-Orthodox army service conundrum: turn it all around and draft the yeshiva dodgers. You're welcome

Nov 12, 2024, 6:01 AM

“MAGA Caps and Yarmulkas the Jewish Political Stockholm Syndrome”

What is the cost of voting blue when red has our back? The real shock of the presidential election was that the Jews are the only minority group in the country that barely shifted demographically to the red column during...

Nov 6, 2024, 4:11 PM

An Open Letter to President Trump – United Nations Relocation Plan

Saving New York from Tyranny and Traffic Dear President Trump, Firstly, let me be the first to congratulate you on a victory well deserved. The only thing America loves more than an underdog is a comeback and you have mastered both...

Oct 27, 2024, 1:34 AM

Kristallnacht 2024 – Beyond “Never Again

Reassessing our Jewish identity in the face of antisemitic Resurgence As we approach the 86th anniversary of Kristallnacht, this year the message of the darkest chapter in our recent history seems somehow more poignant, more relevant and certainly more relatable...

Oct 19, 2024, 10:43 PM

“\The Art of the Shul Fight”\

I am always fascinated by people who wait all year for “Shark Week”in order to get their annual fix of sea predators. As a student of the human condition, our obsession with violent conflict both in nature and in...

Oct 11, 2024, 1:26 AM

We didn’t start the fire….

Anti-Israel demonstrators mark one year of the war between Israel and Hamas, in New York, on October 5, 2024. (Leonardo Munoz / AFP)

Social media trolls and campus anti-Israel protests are unpleasant, but they're no direct trajectory to gas chambers, or even Nuremberg laws

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Manhattan born, London native, straddling both sides of the Atlantic with limited success in either. Mostly proud father of nine. Non denominational orthodox although occasional sinner. Business executive.

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