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Dec 8, 2023, 8:32 AM

Fact Check It was disappointing for me to see yet another issue with reporting by the Wall Street Journal. As you will see below, the Journal repeated the myth that hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were forced to flee their...

Dec 5, 2023, 11:32 AM

While I generally applaud the Wall Street Journal's editorials, I have been finding their reporting to be rather deficient insofar as their articles on the Gaza war tend to take an anti-Israel slant. I have been sending emails to...

Dec 3, 2023, 7:00 PM

Internally Displaced Persons

Internally Displaced Persons The Israel-Hamas war dominates the news, with daily reports of the plight of Palestinian citizens in Gaza displaced by the fighting. Their situation is indeed dire and of a large scale. Yet, there is no mention of...

Nov 29, 2023, 1:23 AM

Partition 1947 There were two “partitions” of British territories in 1947: one of the British Raj (India) and one of British Palestine. Comparing these two partitions may be instructive as to why the Middle East continues to be the subject...

Nov 24, 2023, 12:05 AM

Reflections on Day 3 of Our Mission to Israel

My wife Stacy and I are currently on a “mission” to Israel with our NYC synagogue, KJ. The evacuation and relocation of hundreds of thousands of civilians from both the Northern frontier with Lebanon and the Southern envelope by...

Nov 23, 2023, 4:24 AM

As I watch the goings on in Gaza during the war between Israel and Hamas, I am struck by the plight of the Palestinian population who are being shunted hither and yonder looking for safe refuge. The Israeli military...

Nov 21, 2023, 1:16 AM

As I watch the goings on in Gaza during the war between Israel and Hamas, I am struck by the plight of the Palestinian population who are being shunted hither and yonder looking for safe refuge. The Israeli military...

Nov 19, 2023, 10:54 PM

News Stories (and Other Things) that Piqued My Interest Over the last few weeks, as I have followed developments in the Israel-Hamas war, I have come across large numbers of headlines that were false or misleading on their face, or...

Nov 13, 2023, 7:04 AM

I See Antisemitism

Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart, when asked to describe his test for pornography, famously responded: "I know it when I see it." (Jacobellis v. Ohio, 1964). Antisemitism, likewise, is a matter of perception. Yet, Jews and other philo-semites are accused...

Nov 10, 2023, 5:30 AM

Former President Barak Obama

Former U.S. President Barak Obama released portions of a podcast, “Pod Save America,” on November 6, 2023. While he opened with “What Hamas did was horrific and there’s no justification for it”, he felt compelled to assert that “the...

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Brown University, BA 1980 Harvard Law School, JD, 1983 Commercial Aircraft Finance Lawyer Author: The Commercial Aircraft Finance Handbook (2nd ed., 2019)