Can Resiliency defeat Islamic Terror?
By Ron Jager— Indifference cannot under any circumstances be seen as acceptable behavior of political leaders. Even great leaders can fall prey to the seductive effect of indifference and perceive the...
View ArticleNetanyahu should be vindicated, not blamed
By Ron Jager– Spending Thanksgiving in Long Island made me proud to be a former New Yorker. Despite the distance, the level of concern and regard for the suffering the people of Israel are enduring, is...
View ArticleThe Palestinian’s willing executioners
By Ron Jager— The Palestinian’s willing executioners As the world commemorates the Holocaust as part of the UN-designated International Remembrance Day; now is the time to consider what makes...
View ArticleBringing back what once was – the Trump phenomenon
By Ron Jager— Returning to New York for my yearly winter visit, it becomes unavoidable to deny what’s on everyone’s mind. The candidacy of Donald Trump has kindled a revolution, a tectonic change in...
View ArticleBernie Sander’s bigotry of low expectations
By Ron Jager— On the domestic campaign trail, Bernie Sanders has talked repeatedly about economic inequality, a criminal justice system that incarcerates a disproportionate number of black people, and...
View ArticleThe Global Consequences of Obama’s Denial
By Ron Jager, RonJager.com— Denial is defined as a psychological defense mechanism, and was postulated by psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, in which a person is faced with a fact that is too uncomfortable...
View ArticleThe Eight State Solution Revisited
By Ron Jager— In recent days, the head of the Palestinian Authority (PA), Mahmoud Abbas, spoke at the general assembly of the United Nations basing his remarks on three basic Palestinian beliefs that...
View ArticleThe Day the Music Died for Jewish American Liberals
By Ron Jager— For most American Jewish liberals, November 8 was not only a watershed election, but a day in which the music died. They have been left speechless and silent, unwilling to fathom the...
View ArticleUnconditional Christian Love for Israel
By Ron Jager, www.ronjager.com In the United States, the two groups that most ardently support Israel are Jews and evangelical and fundamentalist Christians. Jewish support is easy to explain, but why...
View ArticleJewish Humor and the Holocaust
By Ron Jager— For the past few days I have had to re-examine many assumptions concerning what the Holocaust means to liberal Jews as a result of Larry David’s monologue on Saturday Night Live. As I...
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