23 Congressional Members Express Concern to Wikimedia Foundation Over “Potential Abuse of Wikipedia by Coordinated Actors”

A bipartisan group of 23 Congressmembers wrote a letter to the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF), the San Francisco-based nonprofit that oversees Wikipedia, on April 30 expressing “our deep concern regarding antisemitism, anti-Israel bias, and the potential abuse of Wikipedia by coordinated actors.” The letter, written by Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), and Don Bacon (R-Neb.) was […]

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Sephardic Torah from the Holy Land

This week we celebrate modern-day Israel’s 77th Independence Day. On Hanukkah 1948, when Israel was 7 months old, it was fresh out of a War of Independence that claimed 6,500 lives, one percent of Israel’s population. The heroes who defended Israel were our modern-day Maccabees, the men and women of the newly established Israel Defense […]

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A Dizzying 100 Days

Donald Trump does not easily call to mind thoughts of honeymoons—even though he has owned several honeymoon destinations. In closing out the first 100 days of his second presidency, it is difficult to say that his honeymoon in the White House is over. So divisive is his presence in American politics, neither the press nor […]

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Travelers and Fellow Travelers, Then and Now

Five members of Congress last week traveled to a prison in Louisiana to show their solidarity with two Hamas supporters who are awaiting deportation. The Congressional visitors were continuing an unfortunate century-long tradition of politicians and political activists embracing tyrants, terrorists and terror supporters. In the 1920s, Soviet dictator Josef Stalin welcomed numerous American intellectuals […]

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We Cannot Continue to Be So Weak

One feature of Jewish life that I have grown to love is the idea of repetition. It also happens to be foundational to our faith. From weekly Shabbat rituals, readings and prayers to the very cyclical nature of the Jewish calendar, the book Deuteronomy essentially “retells the same stories we have already read in earlier […]

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