Author Archives: Victor Rosenthal

Jasbir Puar and the Moral Failure of the Academy

Posted on March 5, 2020 by Victor Rosenthal

Rutgers professor Jasbir Puar has been invited to speak at Scripps College in California by its chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine and several of the college’s academic departments. Puar is one of the most vicious antisemites and misozionists* … Continue reading →

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Jewish Peoplehood and American Jews

Posted on March 1, 2020 by Victor Rosenthal

Nothing seems to me more obviously true than the statement that a strong, thriving Jewish state is essential to the survival of the Jewish people. But apparently many self-identifying American Jews either don’t agree, or even if they do, there … Continue reading →

Posted in American Jews, American politics, The Jewish people | 3 Comments

Bernie the Jewish Fool

Posted on February 27, 2020 by Victor Rosenthal

As Purim approaches, Bernie Sanders, the Jewish front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, said: [Moving the US Embassy back to Tel Aviv is] something we would take into consideration … I am very proud of being Jewish. I actually lived … Continue reading →

Posted in American Jews, American politics | 1 Comment

Anger, not Apathy

Posted on February 23, 2020 by Victor Rosenthal

The media say that Israeli voters are apathetic. They aren’t – they are furious. About a third of them aren’t expected to vote at all in the March 2 election, an unprecedented third in 11 months. And polls show that … Continue reading →

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Seminary of Fools

Posted on February 20, 2020 by Victor Rosenthal

I belong to a Masorti (Conservative) congregation in Israel. Although most Israelis don’t believe this, the movement is theologically much closer to Modern Orthodoxy than to Reform Judaism. There is a commitment to halacha, albeit somewhat more lenient than in … Continue reading →

Posted in 'Peace' Process, Israel and Palestinian Arabs, Israeli Society | 6 Comments

Donald Trump and Ice Nine

Posted on February 16, 2020 by Victor Rosenthal

Kurt Vonnegut’s “Cat’s Cradle” is an interesting book in many ways, but what stuck in my scientifically-oriented and disaster-fascinated mind was what he called “Ice Nine.”  Ice Nine is a form of water that is solid at room temperature.* The … Continue reading →

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Take the Deal

Posted on February 13, 2020 by Victor Rosenthal

There is something practical that can be done to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and that is to grant limited autonomy to a limited Palestinian entity in Judea and Samaria. In other words, to adopt something like the Trump plan. It … Continue reading →

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What is it about Jews?

Posted on February 9, 2020 by Victor Rosenthal

Is there anything worse than European misoziony?* How about the Jewish version? I dislike the expression “self-hating Jew” because Jewish antisemites and misozionists generally think a great deal of themselves. They see their own Jew-hatred as a moral position, made … Continue reading →

Posted in American Jews, Israeli Society, Jew Hatred, Post-Zionism | 1 Comment