The decade after World War Two was a Jewish decade for America. Not only did the Jews achieve the suburban dream, but their culture stepped right into the middle of the American mainstream...
Happy 4th Ya’all
I love America. I always say that you can take me out of America, but you can’t take America out of me. A friend once said to me with surprise that I know more about the current politics in...
TJS S3E9 1945-55 part I Did suburbia make the Jews white?
1945 to 1955 is known as the ‘Golden Decade’ of American Jewry. Here is the first of three episodes which aims to fill in the Jewish Story on the western side of the Atlantic. The...
TJS S3E8 Seventy years of constitutional crisis part II – 1992
In part two of this exploration of Israel’s seventy year constitutional crisis we take a look at the revolution of 1992 and how it contributed to today’s battles. As a special bonus I...
Cusack Learns to Not “Say (or Tweet) Anything” and The Riche$t Israelis, SCOTUS, NYPD, Auction, Kashrut and...
Actor John Cusack, 52, apologized for retweeting a cartoonish meme or meme-ish cartoon of a Star of David-tagged sleeve and arm squashing free speech to his over one million followers. The graphic...
Parkland Survivor Will Not Be Joining Harvard’s Hillel in Fall
To paraphrase the script for the 1942 film, Casablanca, “…it doesn’t take much to see that the problems of a recent high school graduate from Florida and his acceptance to Harvard...
TJS S3E7 Seventy years of constitutional crisis part I – 1949
If I asked you whether Israel has a constitution are you sure that you would know the answer? This episode is the first half of answering the question by delving into the history of Israel’s...
Israelis Help To DeepFake Facebook’s Zuckerberg
Oh.. talk about that start-up nation and technology prowess… Earlier this month, Facebook declined to remove a video that was manipulated to make U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)...
Jerusalem Day 5779 The Once and Future City
Every once in a while you have to get out of the house, and even out of the box. Where better to do that than Jerusalem, and who is a better partner than Yehudah Hakohen. Here is a free-flowing...
TJS S3E^ The limits of retaliation
Every value has a boundary and every state a border, which means that often we have to fight to maintain them. Here is the story of Israel’s struggle against infiltration in the 1950’s...