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In order to move forward, in order to fix, we have to stop destroying. We need to restore the public’s trust in the leadership. We need elections.
The Biden administration is trying to take hold of the situation to ensure it doesn’t spin out of control. The goal is to manage the crisis in a way that minimizes potential damage to the president.
However we chose to mark or observe Seder night this year, the central theme for all but a few perhaps was the plight of the hostages and the victims of October 7.
Ironically, as I watched the senator read my Jerusalem Report, I had been writing fairly regularly for the publication – mainly providing interesting anecdotes from the Jewish world.
I’ve always been proud that I got my law degree from Columbia. It makes me sick to see what is going on there.
"Today, there is no difference between a right-wing antisemite and a left-wing antisemite."
Yossi Melman warned that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's approach to Hamas was doomed. Sadly, he was proven right.
The Broad Perspective: Politicians must look to the IDF generals who took to heart the catastrophe that was October 7 and truly absorb what it means to have been a part of the systemic failure.
There is the ideal Seder in your mind and then there is the real Seder in your house with impatience, rolling eyes, spilled wine, siblings quibbling, and – yes – a lack of the children’s interest.
The contrast between the bon vivant Hersh that the country has come to know in the last 200 days through photos and the thin, scared, and dour Hersh in Wednesday’s video was startling.