by Matthew Friedman | May 16, 2021 | Commentary, News Analysis
After speaking with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the telephone last week, President Biden affirmed that the State of Israel “has the right to defend itself” against rocket attacks from Gaza. Taking the president’s comments as confirmation that the...
by Matthew Friedman | May 11, 2021 | Essays, Jewish Life
Flames rose from the area near the al-Aqsa Mosque on the plateau of Mount Moriah in Jerusalem, a place known to Muslims as Haram esh-Sharif, and to Jews as Har Ha-Bayit. Cheers rose from a crowd of Israelis gathered in the plaza in front of the Western Wall; many...
by Matthew Friedman | May 2, 2021 | Commentary, Jewish Life, Politics
I learned this week that Senator Elizabeth Warren is a “vicious” antisemite. The news was shocking. I have had my differences with the senator and her particular brand of progressivism in the past, but I never imagined that she would promote an atavistic “Jew-hate”...
by Matthew Friedman | Apr 21, 2021 | Commentary
The courtroom was silent when the jury returned from its deliberations and delivered its verdict: guilty. Tensions had been rising across the country as the trial of this murderer-in-uniform reached its climax. Advocates for the defendant had objected to the...
by Matthew Friedman | Apr 4, 2021 | Commentary
Easter falls on the last day of Pesach this year, and the symmetry seems so perfect in my bicultural home. My Irish-American spouse has arranged an impressive Easter basket full of goodies that evoke the Catholic syncretism that brought bunnies and eggs into...
