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Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Jan 24, 2026, 9:28 PM

Georgetown’s Long War of Quiet Espionage

Georgetown’s role in American espionage history is not anecdotal; it is evidentiary. The neighborhood’s significance emerges most clearly when specific counterintelligence cases are examined over time. Again and again, the same pattern appears: intelligence collection flourishes not where secrets...

Nov 19, 2025, 7:28 AM

The Mayor Who Showed Up: A Jewish Reflection on Eric Adams’s Leadership

By Dr. Shmuel Legesse Former New York City Government Employee Upcoming Author of Moral Diplomacy for a Broken World: Inspired by the Vision of Rabbi Jonathan Sacks In the two decades I worked for New York City in public service, youth programs,...

Aug 3, 2025, 2:38 PM

Hamas, Eichmann, Due Process, and a Jewish Accomplice in Texas

My law practice cases back in the USA were almost all transactional civil matters, but I did have occasions to sit at the defense counsel's table in some criminal cases. Although the accused is technically the criminal defense attorney's client,...

Feb 4, 2022, 5:02 PM

I met a great Jew today

Today I had the honor to meet a very special Jew. I paid a shiva call to Jonathan Pollard. He struggled through the kaddish that he said but he is used to struggling. You could hear how each syllable was meant for...

Jan 31, 2022, 4:16 PM

Every Lion Needs a Lioness

The female lion has little rest and less glory. Unlike her male counterpart, the lioness does not hunt or wear a mane. Her job is to stay home to protect her cubs from everything from hyenas, leopards to other...

Jul 14, 2021, 7:38 AM

The Sin of Cowardice

It was the last day of the life of Moses. He probably started off the way he did every other morning -- washed his hands, put on phylacteries, prayed and then ate a light breakfast with Tzippora. Then, he...

James J. Marlow

Jan 6, 2021, 6:17 PM

Let Jonathan Pollard live out his life in peace

In the early hours of last Friday morning, Binyamin Netanyahu was finally given the opportunity to welcome Jonathan Pollard and his wife Esther home. Their arrival in Israel was supposed to have brought an end to a 35-year-old nightmare...

Jan 6, 2021, 2:29 PM

Did my colleagues at the Pentagon think I was a security risk because this man raised that specter of dual loyalty? What if they discovered I knew all the words of 'Hatikvah'?

Sivan Rahav Meir

Jan 1, 2021, 8:53 AM

Jonathan Pollard reminds us that we all share the same story

Before dawn, at 5 o'clock in the morning, Jonathan Pollard landed in Israel and a video of the event was immediately broadcast throughout the world. What was so special and emotional about this moment? Pollard descended from the plane and...

Jerold S. Auerbach

Dec 31, 2020, 5:54 PM

Jonathan Pollard, Home at Last

It was June, 1997. The phone rang. My 10-year-old daughter handed it to me and said with a knowing smile: “It’s Jonathan.” His now familiar voice was, as usual, strong; his speech articulate; his humor sharp; his range of...

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