Steve Wenick

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Nov 26, 2024, 4:57 PM

Alarming echoes from yesteryear resonate today

Now that the dust has settled on the most contentious election of our lifetime, it is time to pivot our attention to an age-old and intractable problem that just will not go away, Israel’s fight against the hypocrisy of...

Nov 13, 2024, 11:53 AM

What are your priorities?

With the rise of malicious and violent antisemitic attacks, as we most recently have witnessed in Amsterdam and elsewhere, American Jewish leadership is delinquent in addressing with forthright clarity the primary source of attacks on Jews. The consequences of...

Oct 15, 2024, 7:30 PM

Ein Breira (There is No Alternative)

The call for a cease-fire in the Hamas-Israel War reveals three reasons one would take that position. The first is complete naiveté, the second is a lack of understanding of the situation, and the third is a deep-seated animus...

Oct 8, 2024, 5:01 AM

The Time Keepers (REVIEW)

The Time Keepers, by Alyson Richman, is a historical novel about the effects the Vietnam War had on five dramatically different characters: a Jew, an Irish Catholic woman, a Vietnam veteran, an orphaned Vietnamese boy, and his aunt. Five...

Aug 18, 2024, 9:06 PM

Making sense of it all

Of all the species on our planet, we are the least suited inhabitants of this orb. How so? For starters, we are not satisfied with merely existing and perpetuating our species. So we imagine, we invent, and we create....

Aug 11, 2024, 4:49 PM

‘The case against ‘Holocaust Comparers’

Vice Presidential candidate, Tim Walz, said that we should not teach the Holocaust as being a unique genocide, but instead we should use it to help students identify “clear patterns” with other genocides like the Armenian, Rwandan, Cambodian, Bosnian,...

Jul 26, 2024, 5:41 PM

‘I won’t stay silent on Gaza suffering’

Vice President Kamala Harris said, “I won’t stay silent on Gaza suffering.” Vice President Harris, I agree you should not stay silent, and I suggest you tell the world this. In response to the Oct 7 massacre, Israel is responding...

Jun 26, 2024, 2:34 PM

Jewish American angst

It is hard to be a Jew (Shver tsu zayn a yid) is a Yiddish maxim popularized by playwright Shalom Aleichem in his play of the same name. There are differing interpretations as to its meaning. The one expressed...

Jun 3, 2024, 10:18 PM

Do Jews suffer from short attention syndrome?

Israel’s enemies are adept at generating soundbites and optics which are at best misleading and at worst outright lies. As a society we have become accustomed to one-liners, witticisms, and quips in lieu of serious dialogue and debate. The...

May 7, 2024, 7:47 PM

Civilian Collateral Damage

Only a trifecta of the misinformed, ignorant, and anti-Semites could have the audacity to accuse Israel of committing genocide, when in fact no other country makes more of an effort to minimize civilian casualties to the degree Israel does. According...

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About Me

Since retiring from IBM Steve Wenick has served as a freelance book reviewer for HarperCollins Publishing and Simon & Schuster. His reviews and articles have appeared in The Jerusalem Post, The Algemeiner, Jerusalem Online, Philadelphia Inquirer, Attitudes Magazine, and The Jewish Voice of Southern New Jersey. Steve and his wife are residents of Voorhees, New Jersey.