Author Archives: Victor Rosenthal

How to Win Back the Squandered Gift of 1967

Posted on June 6, 2019 by Victor Rosenthal

Recently I watched a short (10 minutes), very powerful video about Israel’s victory in the Six Days War. The film suggests that the victory was literally miraculous. It may well have been so, although miracles like the destruction of the … Continue reading →

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The Coalition Racket

Posted on June 3, 2019 by Victor Rosenthal

The first thing to know about Israel’s electoral system is that it has a serious flaw. The second is that it’s very hard to fix it. As you probably know, Israelis vote for parties, not for individual candidates for the … Continue reading →

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Security and Insecurity

Posted on May 30, 2019 by Victor Rosenthal

Last week my Masorti shul hosted a visiting group of Americans, members of a Conservative synagogue. One of the subjects for discussion was “what’s the issue that you are most concerned with at your synagogue?” The answer was not declining … Continue reading →

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Israel’s Coming Constitutional Crisis

Posted on May 26, 2019 by Victor Rosenthal

Can there be a constitutional crisis without a constitution? Apparently Israel is headed toward one, as Prime Minister Netanyahu and his Likud party confront Israel’s Supreme Court. The Court says that Netanyahu wants to render it powerless, destroying the independent … Continue reading →

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The Moral Bankruptcy of Reform’s Religious Action Center

Posted on May 23, 2019 by Victor Rosenthal

The Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism (RAC) is the “social justice” arm of the American Reform movement (it has a parallel organization here in Israel, the IRAC). Although it claims to be “completely non-partisan,” if you look at the … Continue reading →

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More worries for American Jews

Posted on May 19, 2019 by Victor Rosenthal

Dr. Guy Bechor is an Israeli political and legal analyst who specializes in the Middle East. He often appears on Israeli television and his articles are found in various newspapers and websites; however, much of it is not translated into … Continue reading →

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What’s in the Future for European Jews

Posted on May 16, 2019 by Victor Rosenthal

If American Jews are going to have it tough in the future, things look worse for Europeans. The recent attempted murder of a Jewish woman in Sweden, apparently committed by a Muslim man “known to the police” and possibly motivated … Continue reading →

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What’s in the future for American Jews

Posted on May 12, 2019 by Victor Rosenthal

One of the favorite myths of American antisemites – of both the left and right – is that the Jews push America into wars for the sake of Israel, or for the sake of the Rothschild fortune*, or both. Take … Continue reading →

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