Tag Archives: Abraham

The editor of one of the papers where I write regular op-eds requested more information on my message that if Jews are not united, they bring on themselves antisemitism.  Specifically, he wanted to know my sources for making this argument so insistently. He is correct; people need to know where …

“Go forth from your country, from the land of your birth and from the home of your father to the land that I will show you.” (Genesis 12:1) Land. God’s first commandment to Avram (who would later become Avraham the father of the Jewish people) was about land. In the …

Much is being made of the speech that Mahmoud Abbas made at the United Nations. A lie told often enough, said Vladimir Lenin, becomes the truth. It is ironic that the Arabs hold so much faith in this notion and it is even more ironic that much of the world …

Written and posted with the permission of Rabbi Simon Jacobson of the Meaningful Life Center .    An Open Letter to the Muslim World. What Would Your Grandfather Say? — An informal entry in my personal blog today — Dear Cousin, As relatives that go back thousands of years to …