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Nov 28, 2023, 7:27 AM

Where is the FIDF and American Jewry When Israel’s Soldiers Need Equipment?

Like any one of you reading this column, I’ve been busy since October 7th. Every Jew has been drafted as a soldier of the Jewish people. I know few Jewish men and women – from Israel, where we were...

Nov 23, 2023, 10:11 AM

In this Age of Antisemitism Every Jew is a Soldier

The last two weeks are a blur. Israel is at war. Our entire family has been upended. Most important is the constant worry my wife and I feel about our two sons in the IDF who are at war....

Nov 1, 2023, 5:26 AM

Wedding in Israel under Hamas’ falling rockets

Tel Aviv, Israel – We arrive early Thursday morning for our son Yosef’s wedding in Israel. He is a soldier in an elite combat unit, but he has been given a leave of absence for his wedding. He is...

Sep 14, 2023, 1:27 PM

A Gutless Republican Jewish Coalition Fails to Fight Israel’s Critics

For Vivek Ramaswamy, appearing on the show of a died-in-the-wool antisemite was strike three. Ramaswamy claims he didn’t know YouTuber Albert Faleski called Jews "an ethnicity who uses their power in media to turn humanity against whites,” or that a...

Sep 6, 2023, 6:58 AM

Did Dani Dayan Put Yad Vashem Up for Sale?

Those of us who live in the Greater New York Metropolitan Area remember Dani Dayan as a moderately successful Israeli Consul General in New York who could never quite measure up to the warmth and charisma of his immediate...

Aug 22, 2023, 10:31 AM

Nikki Haley hiring Weitzner and Tim Scott hiring Muzin disqualifies Jewish support

Israel faces an existential threat from Iran. President Biden has made the catastrophic decision to pay a $6 billion ransom for releasing American hostages held by the fanatical Islamists. This subsidy for Iran’s nuclear program and sponsorship of terrorism...

Jul 25, 2023, 6:27 AM

Why Democrats are So Scared of Bobby Kennedy on Jews and Israel

When he was just fourteen years old, Bobby Kennedy, Jr. got a phone call at his Jesuit boarding school in Bethesda, Maryland, informing him that his father, who had just won the California Democratic primary, had been shot. He...

Jul 9, 2023, 2:36 PM

Why did Nikki Haley hire Trump’s ad-men who were accused of antisemtism?

For over 10 years I worked on connecting Dr. Oz – the world’ most famous physician and a proud Muslim – with Israel and the Jewish community. Strong support for the Jewish state was to be a central platform...

Jun 18, 2023, 10:59 AM

Bobby Kennedy Comes Out Against Biden’s Iran Deal

Last Friday Democratic candidate for President Robert Kennedy, Jr. Came out forcefully and unequivocally against President Biden’s new Iran deal and Biden’s plan to give the murderous Mullahs of Iran billions of dollars which they’ll use to export terrorism...

May 30, 2023, 10:59 PM

Noam Chomsky and Yale’s ‘Jewish Lives Book Series’ Reek of Jeffrey Epstein

Israel-hater and celebrity academic Noam Chomsky confirmed receiving $270,000 from a bank account associated with Jeffrey Epstein. Chomsky said it was only to reorganize his own funds – whatever that means. Then again, his moral apathy is already the...

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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.