In each and every generation they rise up against us to destroy us. And the Holy One, blessed be He, rescues us from their hands.- Passover Haggadah PROLOGUE This essay, drawing from the memoirs of Anatoly Rubin (z”l) and Avraam Shifrin (z”l), offers a small glimpse into the [...]

We’re all aware of the most influential antisemitic book in modern history, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Appearing in the early 1900s then adopted and disseminated by the A-Team of International Antisemites—Russia and the Soviet Union, the Nazis, the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas, and so on—this [...]

Racist violence against Jews has escalated to the highest levels in a century even in America, long one of the safest places in the Diaspora. Since leftist radicals turned “anti-racism” into its antonym, black/colored/minorities became the latest neo-Marxist equivalent of the exploited, an “intersectional” coalition defined by their [...]

One of the most robust statistical findings in political science is the fact that modern liberal democracies never make war on each other. Per Yale Professor Bruce Russet, in every war fought between 1815 and 1986, not a single one involved a liberal democracy fighting another liberal democracy. [...]

As the United States executed decisive strikes to dismantle Iran’s nuclear facilities at Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan during Operation “Midnight Hammer,” and Israel secured control of Iranian airspace within a mere four days, one question dominated media discourse: would these measures prove to be the decisive blows that [...]

Back during the COVID pandemic, I was among the few travelers in an eerily empty Penn Station in New York City.  We travelers seemed to be outnumbered by the homeless and police. A bicycle-pushing man’s nonsensical shouts about racism echoed through the cavernous space. The police stood in [...]

Numerous American colleges and universities find themselves in peril of losing some or all of their federal research funding. Harvard has leaped to the front of the line. Previously, Columbia University, because it was named first, attracted the most attention. The other Ivy League universities are not far [...]

One of the more consequential themes in Nazi antisemitic propaganda was the accusation that Jews had a plan to conquer the world and enslave mankind. This accusation was based on a text, widely accepted among gentiles at the time as “true.” Entitled The Protocols of the Elders of [...]

Question any keffiyeh-clad students whether they are right wingers at your own peril – at best you’ll be laughed at. Why should you even ask?  Pro-Palestine means Left – and that’s a high percentage of college students. According to a Pew Research survey released in April 2024, younger [...]

As a young man, I was invited to dinner at the home of a senior professor at a respected liberal arts college. A man of conservative views and polished manners, he was cordial and witty. After dinner, he took me into his well-appointed library filled with the volumes [...]