Guns
These are facts: The vast majority of American Jews are Left, with some 70% voting Democratic. And the vast majority of American Democrats are for gun control, the tighter the better. I am a moderate Democratic gun-owner and take a small measure of satisfaction in reports, such as this one
Jews
Word that Amy Gutmann soon would be named our ambassador to Germany rang my American chimes in several ways. I got a little verklempt. (Yiddish for emotional). Not because she is the president of the University of Pennsylvania. I’ve always said that's a great school to attend
Jews
All columnists are hired to express their opinions, as opposed to reporters who are commanded to present the news as objectively as possible. Columnists are supposed to be subjective, and it really is an honor to be selected by editors to inflict yourself on others. It requires a dash of
Hate crimes
The declaration of this weekend — show up for Shabbat — as a memorial to the slaughter of Pittsburgh Jews reminds me of a column I wrote following that unspeakable tragedy. The thing that distinguishes the Pittsburgh attack from, say, Nazi Germany, is that in America, churches and mosques also have been