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Nov 29, 2023, 8:41 PM

November 29th – Commemorating a Historic Day for the Jewish People

Seventy-six years ago, on November 29, 1947, the Jewish people held out our hands for the hope and prayer of peace with our Arab neighbors when our leadership accepted the United Nations Partition Resolution. Each year, we commemorate November 29th...

Nov 28, 2023, 12:37 AM

We Wait Too Long

Illustrative: Father and son embracing. Envato stock photo. Used with permission.

The sagacious words of the late Rabbi Sidney Greenberg (1917-2003), of blessed memory. Rabbi Greenberg was ordained by the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in 1942, served as a U.S. Army Chaplain in World War II, and was the...

Nov 26, 2023, 12:28 AM

Hamas Social Media Influencers May be Winning Public Opinion War with Some Young Americans

It’s honestly like we’ve begun to form these parasocial relationships with the people in Palestine ... What Willy likely does not know, and The Washington Post doesn’t report, is that Bisan Owda is a professional Hamas propagandist. Despite President Biden’s...

Nov 25, 2023, 5:32 PM

Time for U.S. to Face the Inconvenient Truth about the Palestinian Authority

The Times of Israel reports that Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s stance on the Palestinian Authority governing Gaza is harming American efforts to rally Arab support. There's ample reason to believe that's inaccurate. Unlike the Biden Administration, few Arab leaders are...

Nov 24, 2023, 10:59 AM

US Senator Bernie Sanders Offers Recycled, Misguided Strategies for US and Israel

In a New York Times essay, US Senator Bernie Sanders acknowledges the horrific events of 10/7, claims to seek a middle road, and then recommends recycling Obama-Biden era strategies that would harm Israel, undermine the US-Israel relationship, and set...

Nov 20, 2023, 3:09 PM

Helping Jewish Students Succeed on U.S. Campuses

On campuses with anti-Semitic and anti-Israel activities, it's especially important for Jewish students to become active with local Jewish organizations.

As a Jew on campus, it’s almost never about how you define yourself but how others define you. Regardless of an individual’s personal religious, spiritual, political views, or background, Jewish students on campus often become seen by non-Jews as ambassadors...

Nov 19, 2023, 11:04 PM

Antisemitic ‘Letter to America’ Should be a Wake-Up Call for Parents

Illustrative: Father and son in Talking Tips exercise (Envato stock photo used with permission).

A world without heroes. Is like a world without sun. Many were shocked and saddened to see Osama bin Laden’s antisemitic 2002 "Letter to America" go viral on social media this month. What is the environment that attracted large numbers...

Nov 19, 2023, 1:28 PM

Free Palestine!

We can all agree that Palestine should be free. Defining what is Palestine in 2023 and what it should be free from are different questions that should also be addressed. Palestine once encompassed all of present-day Israel, the West Bank,...

Nov 18, 2023, 3:33 PM

Hamas’s massive terrorist underground was no secret

Hamas's massive 311 mile terrorist underground beneath the Gaza Strip cost at least three times as much as the entire Washington, D.C. subway system (Courtesy Glickman, Shamir, Samsonov).

It doesn't take a professional armchair quarterback to know Israel should have been more concerned about Hamas's mammoth terror tunnels. With American spy satellites hundreds of miles above the Earth capable of recognizing images as small as six inches,...

Nov 17, 2023, 11:00 PM

As Israel and US focus on Gaza and Lebanon, Iran’s nuclear race continues

The West completely failed to prevent rogue North Korea from becoming a nuclear weapons state. While that failure was disastrous, it will be miniscule compared to a similar failure with Iran. America and the entire West were blindsided when North...

About Me

Seth Eisenberg is President of the PAIRS Foundation, a former At-Large chair of the National Writers Union, elected labor leader, and pro-Israel activist. He is an author of Instructions for Intimacy, The Laundry List of Relationship Mishaps, Knots and Double Binds, PAIRS Essentials, Warrior to Soul Mate, PAIRS for PEERS, and the SHALOM Workshop. He can be reached via LinkedIn at linkedin.com/in/setheisenberg/.

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