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Jun 22, 2026, 5:22 PM

Save the Children

If your child and your neighbor’s child were drowning, who would you save? Easy, right? What comes next is not easy and not P.C. It is a comparison of two opposing cultures topped off with a very obvious, heartfelt value...

Jun 3, 2026, 10:31 AM

The Indisputable Zionism of the Black Panther Party–Why it Matters Now (part 2)

(Part 2: The early Black nationalists' love of Zionism, Malcolm X as a closeted Zionist, the Black Panther Party’s rebuke of the holy war against Israel, and the real point of this story) In part 1 (immediately below this...

May 27, 2026, 11:24 AM

The Indisputable Zionism of the Black Panther Party and Why it Matters Now

(Part I: The Jew boy fight, the JDL, Zionists, and the Black Power Party’s Zionist-inspired platform) I was introduced to the Black Panthers in the eighth grade by my friend Gene—I think that was his name. We were walking...

May 26, 2026, 6:51 PM

Jewish & Black: Acting Against Racism

Standing Up for My Children and Making a Difference Why Speaking Out Still Matters It has been many months since I last sat down to write for my Jewish & Black series. Not because the subject became less important. If anything, the...

Kim Friedman Landau

May 13, 2026, 4:22 AM

Farewell Letter to our Neighbors

Several years before October 7, we became friends with a young married couple living next door to us. They were a Black woman and a White woman who went on to have a son together. Our relationship developed and...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

May 9, 2026, 12:19 AM

SCOTUS Ends Racial Gerrymandering

On April 29, 2026, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) issued a 6 to 3 decision that struck a powerful blow for electoral integrity. In ‘Louisiana vs. Callais’, the justices ruled that the State of Louisiana’s contorted congressional...

Apr 22, 2026, 8:17 PM

Choosing Tokens

"Choosing Tokens." Credit: DALL-E.

Thomas Sowell once wrote: “Some things are believed because they are demonstrably true. But many other things are believed simply because they have been asserted repeatedly, and repetition has been accepted as a substitute for evidence.” That line fits modern...

Sheldon Kirshner

Feb 19, 2026, 10:43 PM

Jesse Jackson’s Mercurial Relationship With Jews

Jesse Jackson, the American civil rights leader who died on February 17 at the age of 84, had a mercurial relationship with the Jewish community in the United States. An ordained Baptist minister who was born and came of age...

Stephen M. Flatow

Feb 18, 2026, 1:33 PM

In a 2002 TV debate, I challenged Jesse Jackson

Reverend Jesse Jackson waves as he steps to the podium during the third day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on July 27, 2016. (AP Photo/ J. Scott Applewhite/ File)

He thought negotiating with terrorists would bring peace; I argued uprooting terror had to come first. After October 7, I have no doubt

Feb 17, 2026, 2:38 PM

Time for Silence Is Over: Israel Must Bring the Remaining Ethiopian Jews Home

The Ethiopian Israeli community in Jerusalem, during the Ethiopian protest on Feb. 2, 2026. Photo credit: Dr. Shmuel Legesse

According to updated community estimates, the names of nearly 15,000 Jews of Ethiopian origin are now written and documented as waiting in Ethiopia. Many live in designated “waiting stations” and compounds in Gondar and Addis Ababa. On Sunday, February...

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