I always thought I was going to be the first Jewish president of the United States. I’m not kidding. I remember very clearly at age 6 memorizing the presidential oath of office so that I…

You know it’s weird never have things been so wild westy, so anything goes, so no holds barred, so limits free, so break every rule, so out with standards and conventions and the traditional way…

When I heard the news of the death of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the first thing I thought of was the Jews leaving Egypt. It wasn’t so much the news of al-Baghdadi’s death that…

I must admit I am enjoying a little too much watching the kosher chickens come home to roost. I mean this is really serious stuff and yet I can’t stop smiling. I have for so…

I hate modern life. I despise it, can’t stand it, am sick of it, am more than frustrated by it. And I really don’t care if that makes me seem like a stick in the…

It’s not good when Pat Robertson has more of a sense of moral outrage than the vast majority of Israeli Jews and right wing American Jews. It’s not good when Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has more of…

And so we have begun a new Jewish year. In my column wrapping up 5779, I presented quite a bit of evidence that the old Jewish year was an unusually lousy one, full of tragic…

Timing is everything. Israel just held the second of its two national elections this year and this one, like the first one, basically ended in a tie. Which leads me to have a lot to…

He is the pisher’s pisher. Look at the photo at the bottom. It shows, at left, chief White House pisher, Jared Kushner, who is a punk clueless kid with no discernible talents, abilities, experience or…