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Jan 13, 2025, 11:47 AM

Jewish Unity is Not More Important than Jewish Survival

Millions of people around the world watched the attack against me by a deranged, dangerous antisemite at the Fontainebleau hotel in Miami Beach, where I grew up. I was sitting and working on my laptop on the acceptance speech...

Dec 30, 2024, 6:45 PM

Cory Booker’s Last Chance to Reconnect with the Jewish Community

Cory Booker’s career, once defined by a promising rise as a bridge-builder among diverse communities, is at a critical juncture. Among his most critical supporters, the Jewish community once held the most central place, especially during his early political...

Dec 12, 2024, 2:21 PM

In the annals of geopolitical superheroes, Israel’s prime minister is fast surpassing Captain America and entering a place that only imaginary champions exist like Batman. Bibi Netanyahu is the free world’s foremost defender. It’s not hyperbole: heroes are only as...

Nov 4, 2024, 1:53 PM

Trump is first on Israel. But Biden came through when we needed him most

Normally, writing a column just before an election which will be published two days after, I should start by saying that by the time you read this you’ll already know whom the new President is, Donald Trump or Kamala...

Oct 1, 2024, 8:12 AM

How Netanyahu Became the Greatest Jew Alive

(The speech I gave before Prime Minister Netanyahu this past Friday night at Shabbat dinner in New York City just hours after he eliminated Hassan Nasrallah and just as he was about to board his plane to return to...

Aug 29, 2024, 3:52 PM

What Does Candace Owens Have on Dennis Prager & Ben Shapiro to Buy Their Silence

A thousand years ago, the Jews of Norwich, England were living their lives peacefully. After a twelve year old Catholic boy, William, was found dead, the Jews of England were blamed and annihilated. Thus was born the blood libel,...

Jun 18, 2024, 6:14 AM

The Terror that Grips Us as Parents of IDF Soldiers

Nir Oz, Israel, on the Gaza Border - This is not an easy column to write, for several reasons. First, because my wife doesn’t want me to write it. She feels it’s too personal and it raises an issue...

Jun 7, 2024, 9:39 AM

The ADL Dishonors Itself by Honoring Cory Booker and His Support for Iran

As everyone knows, I brought Cory Booker, now my senator in New Jersey, to the Jewish community via his first becoming my Student President at Oxford University from 1992-1994. We became as close as brothers and studied hundreds of...

Jun 5, 2024, 8:35 AM

D-Day’s 80th Should Inspire Israel to Destroy Hamas

Normandy, France -- I traveled to France for the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings commemorated this June 6. I have been to Normandy many times and I’ve tried to study all the contours of this unforgettable battlefield. But...

May 21, 2024, 11:28 AM

The ADL Cannot Honor Cory Booker

On June 10th in New York City, our organization the World Values Network will be outside an ADL luncheon with hundreds of people at Cipriani on 42nd Street protesting the ADL’s incomprehensible decision to honor our Senator and my...

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About Me

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach is the founder of This World: The Values Network. He is the author of Judaism for Everyone and 30 other books, including his most recent, Kosher Lust. Follow him on Twitter@RabbiShmuley.