The “legal” landmine on the road to sovereignty


  There is a landmine on the road to Israeli sovereignty over parts of Judea and Samaria. It must be defused before it blows up Israel’s efforts to secure its national interests and takes President Donald Trump’s peace plan, and U.S.-Israel relations along with it. The landmine is not an actual explosive charge but the clique of unelected lawyers at…

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General Flynn and Dan Eldad: Compare and Contrast


Americans considering the contents of the documents that have been released over the past several days regarding the investigation and prosecution of President Donald Trump’s former national security advisor Gen. Michael Flynn are right to greet them with a mixture of anger and fear. But they should also feel lucky. To understand why, it is worth considering the parallels between…

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Latma introduces the Judgefather


In the sixth episode of Latma, we introduce the Judgefather and the legal fraternity’s Independence Day after party, the Treasury Ministry’s extraordinary measures to save small businesses,the left’s alternative Holocaust Memorial Day ceremony and much more. Enjoy and share!

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The final days of the Iran nuclear deal


  There is a growing chance that by October, the nuclear deal with Iran, otherwise known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) will be dead. Under the deal with the U.S. China, Russia, Germany, Britain and France, Iran purported to accept limitations on its nuclear program. These limitations included capping its low enriched uranium stockpiles at 300 kg,…

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Latma – episode 6


Here is last week’s episode of Latma with English subtitles. It includes an odeto coronavirus parenting, a new morning talk show and much, much more. Enjoy and share far and wide.  

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From Holocaust to Independence – online symposium


To mark Israel’s Independence Day, I participated in an online symposium titled From Holocaust to Independence with David Horowitz, Katie Hopkins and Boaz Bismuth, organized Forum Ori Cafe Shapira and moderated by Yishai Fleischer. It was a pleasure to participate and I hope you enjoy the discussion. Here is Part 1. Here is Part 2.

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Lob’s hostile (but disarming) takeover


Apparently, the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations is sensitive to criticism. Over the past week, it received enormous – and well-deserved – flak after it announced the decision of its nominating committee to select former HIAS chairman Dianne Lob to serve as the Conference’s next chairman. In what is largely viewed as a formality, the full Conference…

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American Jewry’s Organizational Crack-Up


  Last week an event occurred will be remembered as a key moment in the disintegration of organized American Jewish support for Israel and American Jewish organizational life itself. Last Friday, the leaders of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations announced that the Conference’s nominating committee had selected Dianne Lob, the immediate past president of HIAS to…

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