Like every sensible person I was outraged by Ann Coulter‘s anti-Semitic comments on CNBC’s “The Big Idea” with host Donny Deutsch. Coulter began answering Deutsch’s question about what her ideal United States would look like by stating it would be like it was during the Republican National Convention in New York City. She then went…
This Monday, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, will deliver the keynote address at Columbia University‘s World Leaders Forum. The event is co-sponsored by the School of International and Public Affairs and will be moderated by John H. Coatsworth, Acting Dean of the School of International and Public Affairs. The “generous” hatemonger…
The Cleveland Plain Dealer today reported that Ohio Representative Josh Mandel will return to Iraq. I met Josh at an AIPAC event this past Spring in Columbus. He’s a very impressive guy who cares passionately about our government, the State of Israel, and humanitarian causes worldwide — especially in Sudan. Here is part of the…
I got very nervous today when everyone started telling me about the media reports that a clergyman made inappropriate religious comments in his opening invocation at the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus this past Wednesday (video). This is because I opened Wednesday’s session of the Ohio Senate with a prayer. Perhaps I shouldn’t have mentioned that…
The audio footage of the mezuzah hanging ceremony in Senator David Goodman’s office is now online. (c) Rabbi Jason Miller | http://blog.rabbijason.com | Twitter: @RabbiJason | facebook.com/rabbijasonmiller
For a long time I felt conflicted on the issue of the separation of Church and State. However, I have come to realize that there really is no separation of Church and State in our country. Priests invoke the name of Jesus all the time in official ceremonies (e.g., inaugurations), politicians and judges get sworn…
Well, at least I was never the kid in gym class who didn’t get drafted for the dodge-ball team! Newsweek magazine has chosen to go into the “rabbi ranking” business and has listed their top fifty rabbis in America. I guess if Forbes Magazine can rank businesses and billionaires, why shouldn’t there be a list…
From the Washington Post Jimmy Carter’s Jewish ProblemBy Deborah Lipstadt It is hard to criticize an icon. Jimmy Carter’s humanitarian work has saved countless lives. Yet his life has also been shaped by the Bible, where the Hebrew prophets taught us to speak truth to power. So I write. Carter’s book “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid,”…
From JTA.orgFourteen Jewish members of the Carter Center in Atlanta resigned to protest the former president’s book blaming Israel for the failure of Middle East peace efforts. In a letter to Carter obtained by JTA, the group wrote Thursday that he had abandoned his role as peace broker in favor of malicious partisan advocacy, portraying…
In a NY Times article, former Ambassador Dennis Ross raises some serious criticism of Jimmy Carter’s use of maps in his new book “Palestine Peace Not Apartheid.” Of course, Ross is not the first to criticize Carter for the way he uses the maps (or where he got them) to make his argument. Prof. Alan…