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May 16, 2024, 7:52 AM

College in Israel – – An Overlooked Alternative

CEO Eric Cohen of Tikvah (a distinguished non-profit fund dedicated to promoting Jewish identity) recently delivered an address regarding the current crisis on American college campuses and how the Jewish community ought to respond. The address was published as...

May 2, 2024, 9:35 PM

A Shanda for the Jews

During this fateful time for Israel and American Jews, where are the rabbis and Jewish leaders and institutions? Aside from pro forma declarations condemning campus unrest, what are they doing? Not much. It’s a shanda for the Jews. Every year these...

Mar 3, 2024, 1:49 AM

The late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan once famously said “everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.” Not anymore. Today everyone has their own "narrative." I grew up in the simpler world of the 1950's. At...

Feb 18, 2024, 11:59 PM

After October 7th, even to raise the ‘two-state solution’ is obscene

On October 7th, Palestinian terrorists and Gaza residents massacred 1,200 Israeli citizens, gang raped countless women, burned babies alive in front of their parents and abducted two-hundred-forty hostages into the tunnels of Gaza. Remarkably, in the aftermath of the...

Dec 4, 2023, 3:47 AM

Who Is Responsible For Civilian Deaths in Gaza?

Now that the war in Gaza has resumed, there are constant calls for Israel “to exercise restraint” and avoid civilian casualties. This is often nothing more than code for Israel to declare a unilateral cease fire and abandon its...

Nov 29, 2023, 1:22 AM

The Buffer Zone Solution

A bulldozer from Gaza breaks through the Israeli-built security fence between Gaza and Israel. On October 7, 2023, thousands of Gazans easily crossed the one hundred yard buffer zone between Gaza and Israel and poured through Israel’s vaunted security...

Feb 21, 2023, 9:54 AM

‘Say It Ain’t So,’ Matti, Yossi and Daniel

For those of you unacquainted with the title of this article, it comes from the infamous 1919 Black Sox scandal where the Chicago White Sox were accused of throwing the World Series and a young fan approached White Sox...

Dec 31, 2022, 11:23 PM

A Jewish New Year’s Resolution

“To be a Jew is to be an agent of hope in a world serially threatened by despair,” wrote the late Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. If not for a firm foundation in hope, would any Jews have survived the Holocaust?...

Mar 23, 2022, 10:13 PM

The War in Ukraine Makes a Mockery of the Palestinian Narrative

The Palestine narrative runs like this: in 1948, in creating the State of Israel, European Jewish colonialists displaced the indigenous Palestinians from their land, dispossessing around 700,000 refugees. The narrative labels this seminal event as the “Nakba” or catastrophe....

Nov 1, 2021, 10:36 AM

Stop debating Peter Beinart with kid gloves

Last week, the prominent Reform synagogue in Manhattan, Temple Emanuel, hosted a debate between Peter Beinart, an Orthodox Jew, progressive, and writer and Bret Stephens, an op-ed columnist for the New York Times. The debate was moderated by Jodi...

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About Me

Steve Frank is retired after a 30-year career as an appellate lawyer with the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. His writings on Israel, the law and architecture have appeared in numerous publications including the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, the Baltimore Sun, the Jerusalem Post, the Jewish News Syndicate and Moment magazine.

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