Miscellaneous | Israeli Opinion

Unhiding Jewish Pride on Columbia University’s Lawn

Jewish Culture Festival draws thousands of students and faculty members

Politics | Judea & Samaria

Elder Of Ziyon - To the pioneers of Judea and Samaria, "people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, and do"

Blogging about Israel and the Arab world since, oh, forever.

Politics | Opinion

Elder Of Ziyon - Where are the children's books about Jewish life in Israel for Jewish American Heritage Month?

Blogging about Israel and the Arab world since, oh, forever.

News | Articles By Me

We Deserve Better. Much better. - Joshua Namm

The post 10/7 Jewish world cannot be business as usual.

My latest. We need better leadership. A recent email I received shows just how weak, cowardly, and pointless so many mainstream Jewish organizations are. I wrote about it in my latest Substack article. Please subscribe. It’s totally free!

History | History

The Year We Hung Hitler

A 1946 Purim celebration in the Landsberg DP camp

Politics | Campus Watch

Berkeley’s Jews Show Some Spine

In the late 1950s, the University of California, Berkeley started cracking down on campus politicking. By the ’60s, this effort almost became a total ban. The backlash congealed into the

Music | Music

Bob Dylan & Israel, The Neighborhood Bully

It may not be his best song, but Dylan’s 1983 song about Israel is surprisingly resonant today.

This album came out when I was in high school and I immediately totally fell in love with this song. It is truly amazing that it has become even more relevant through the years. When I used to DJ, I’d play it sometimes (even though almost no one but me knew what it was about) to show both my pride in being Jewish, and in Israel.

If you want to listen to it, you can copy and paste this:

https://youtu.be/-ETdLfXI6r8?si=MbtWmMnH-szNsK_z

Politics | Opinion

Time for Honesty: Tough Questions for my Jewish Brothers and Sisters Abroad

Tough Questions for my Jewish Brothers and Sisters Abroad. In Memory of Elisha Loewenstern, HY"D

This is a great piece and I understand the sentiment. Part of me wishes that I had moved to Israel after my first experience there, at 17, which mirrors her first trip there.

Politics | Opinion

Eliminate the ‘Diaspora mentality’

Israel and the Jews must accept that we will never be “normal.”

This article makes several good points. Resting on non-Jews, as if we’re dependent on them, which we aren’t, is completely counterproductive.

News | Israel At War

Victory is more important than US support

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his ministers must remember that Israel is not an American vassal state.

Politics | Opinion

A New Existential War - Part III: Forming a Clear Post-War National Vision Means Returning to the Roots of Zionism

BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,251, January 8, 2023 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: On the morning of October 7, 2023, the strategic Israeli security concept

Miscellaneous | Jewish Life

Chanukah: Independence & Defiance, Not Tolerance

Far from a “minor” holiday, Chanukah is more crucial than ever.

News | Israel At War

'Welcome to Hell': Israeli Soldiers Troll Hamas From the Ruins of Gaza

TEL AVIV—There's the Israel Defense Forces's official messaging about its war against Hamas, and then there are the photographs and videos coming from the front line. As Israeli soldiers have laid waste to Hamas's Islamist terror state in the Gaza Strip,

I love this.

Politics | Opinion

Replace American Jewish Communal Leadership

Look around at the disarray and the betrayal of Jews by alleged friends and allies, and you’ll see a bitter truth: Our leadership has gone bad

I’ve been saying this for more than a decade.

Miscellaneous | Jewish Life

Their Video of Jewish Pride went Viral

An interview with the Campus rabbi who didn't flinch in the face of an anti-Israel rally.

Politics | Opinion

Elder Of Ziyon - Rallies: Do They Make a Difference (Judean Rose)

Rallies are proliferating outside of Israel in the wake of October 7th. What do they accomplish?

I agree with all of this, except that we shouldn’t go to rallies or shut because there it may be risky. We can’t be afraid and have to prove to our enemies that they CANNOT intimidate us. That is ESPECIALLY true for going to shul. We should be doing that now more than ever!

News | Israel At War

IDF soldiers pray in ancient 6th century Gaza synagogue for first time in decades

A number of tweets suggest that soldiers prayed at the ancient synagogue, though IDF rules have reportedly kept soldiers from sharing them for safety.

Don’t give up an inch! This is our land, we are its indigenous inhabitants, and what the world thinks is MEANINGLESS!!! !עם ישאשץ חי

Miscellaneous | Jewish Life

Dear world: I don’t care

I don’t care if you’re out on the street, waving your flag and chanting your slogans. We won’t die silently the way you want us to

Miscellaneous | Jewish Wisdom

It Took Years, and I’m Finally Proud to Be Jewish

I found out I was Jewish when a girl on my street told me I was a “dirty Jew.”

Politics | Opinion

The Jewish People are Winning - Looking back at how far we have come

As the most proud and nationalist Jewish government ever was just sworn in Jerusalem yesterday, I wanted to take us all back to how things were just 16 years ago to understand.

“As the most proud and nationalist Jewish government ever was just sworn in Jerusalem yesterday, I wanted to take us all back to how things were just 16 years ago to understand and appreciate, how far we have progressed since a low point in modern Israel’s short history, the Gaza “disengagement” in 2005. We still have much to work on, but we must internalize how blessed to be where we are today.”

Politics | Opinion

The Temple Mount: ‘These Stones Are Not Silent’ - Meir Y. Soloveichik

On May 6, 2022, Israel’s Independence Day, the Temple Mount was opened to Jews for the first time in 11 days. Jewish visitors, calmly and proudly walking

“In 1942, Menachem Begin arrived in British Mandate Palestine. At that time, only a narrow alley in front of the Western Wall was available for Jewish prayer, but even then certain rituals were banned. And at the conclusion of Yom Kippur, the British would arrest—and club—Jews who sought to sound the shofar or sing “Ha Tikvah.” To Begin this was intolerable.”

News | Jewish Community

There’s a New Sheriff In Town—and He’s Wearing a Kippah

San Antonio sheriff’s deputy visibly displays his Judaism at graduation