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Michael Schlank

Jan 7, 2026, 10:22 PM

Courage Over Volume

As we enter a new year, the noise of public life grows louder commentary layered over outrage, opinion edged with mockery, and the easy currency of bombast traded for attention. In moments like these, volume can easily be mistaken for vision. But Jewish communal life...

Theodore Sheskin

Aug 31, 2025, 6:37 PM

Shared Responsibility for Alleged Genocide in Gaza

A new poll found that half of US voters believe that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. However, Israel is not committing genocide, which means acting with intent to destroy a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group. Israel is not intent on destroying the Palestinian...

Theodore Sheskin

Aug 23, 2025, 11:37 PM

Israel Can Propose Peace with Iran

The government of Israel considers the Islamic Republic of Iran to be their nation’s major enemy. The Iranian government has threatened to “wipe the Zionist entity off the map.” Iran is enriching uranium to a level approaching weapon’s grade. Iran does not currently allow the...

Theodore Sheskin

Aug 11, 2025, 7:16 AM

Deliver Food to Starving Hostages in Gaza

Global outrage is expressed over the starvation that has overtaken the Gaza Strip. Israel is held solely responsible for the starvation. After ending its blockade of aid to Gaza in May 2025, Israel established a new aid system, run by the Global Humanitarian Foundation (G.H.F.)....

Theodore Sheskin

May 25, 2025, 6:01 AM

Statement of Support for all Research Universities

Founded in 1900, the Association of American Universities (AAU) is composed of America’s leading research universities. AAU member universities help shape policy for higher education, science, and innovation. Both Columbia and Harvard are members of AAU. Harvard, the current target of the Trump administration’s efforts...

Theodore Sheskin

Apr 21, 2025, 10:13 AM

Fight Antisemitism and Preserve Academic Freedom

For many years, our nation’s system of high education has been the envy of the world. Our colleges and universities have attracted some of the brightest students and faculty on the planet. Now President Trump is striving to demolish this wonderful system by asserting that,...

Madelon Rosen-Solomon

Feb 27, 2025, 11:47 PM

As a Jew, I hear the bells & whistles going off with lights flashing!

Among the many conversations I have had in the past month, only a few of them have been about the new president and his unending cascade of actions. One was with an American of proud Armenian descent who is well versed in the Ottoman Empire’s...

Madelon Rosen-Solomon

Jan 29, 2025, 10:46 PM

A Wandering Jew in Dystopia America Sees Her Options

I write this column in the second week of the second (G-d help us) Trump presidency. I have never felt more of a stranger in my birth-country than now. Could this really be happening? Am I now in some deep dystopian nightmare from which I...

Madelon Rosen-Solomon

Nov 2, 2024, 3:15 AM

Oy vey, Trump fakakta meshuggah Jewish TV commercial!

As if the recent ugly Trump Rally ‘lovefest’ at Madison Square Garden was not enough, now we are subjected to Trump campaign television commercials which stereotype Jewish American Trump voters. Now, I love diners as much as a lot of Americans—Jewish or not—but the commercial...

Madelon Rosen-Solomon

Oct 31, 2024, 9:13 PM

Before the Election: Classic Films on American Politics Worth Seeing

With the country’s elections almost here, with Americans deeply politically divided, and miscommunications flourishing on right-wing news channels and major social media, I suggest you take a sanity break and view some classic older American films that offer perspective on the political chaos Americans have...

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