Redemptive Anti-Semitism in Europe
By RON JAGER— The celebration of the Jewish festival of Purim, whose observance began Saturday night, has always been linked to Persia, which is known today as the nation of Iran. Purim, has also been...
View ArticleThe triumph of low expectations
By RON JAGER— This past week, a friend caught me in shul and shared with me the following gem, “If you want to know how the Messiah will be welcomed in Israel, then this past week is a good...
View ArticleThe depths of Jew-hatred
By RON JAGER,— “Who has made us Jews different from all other people? Who has allowed us to suffer so terribly up until now? It is G-d who has made us as we are, but it will be God, too, who will...
View ArticleTaking time off from the world
By RON JAGER— Winston Churchill has been quoted as saying “Some people like the Jews, and some do not. But no thoughtful man can deny the fact that they are beyond question the most formidable and the...
View ArticleThe moral burden of living with terror
By RON JAGER— President Obama in his speech on “The War on Terror” has shown once and for all that he does not consider Islamic terror to be a strategic threat on the United States. Despite the City...
View ArticleWhen all else fails, lean on Israel
By RON JAGER— When all else fails, lean on Israel which in today’s political environment means unilateralism. Now that Secretary of State Kerry has come and gone back home with little to show for his...
View ArticleWatching America’s back
By RON JAGER— Recent events in the Middle East suggest that 20 years of uncertainty about Israel’s strategic value to American interests may be ending. During the past two decades when the Cold War...
View ArticleShould Israel make her move now?
By RON JAGER— In recent weeks and months, public leaders and leading journalists affiliated with the settlement movement have called for annexing and incorporating all of Judea and Samaria into Israel....
View ArticleBeing held to a higher standard
By RON JAGER— It was during my last year of high school back in 1974, when I heard and read about for the first time, the incredibly tragic case of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. This Jewish American...
View ArticleObama’s legacy of failures
By RON JAGER— In Recent weeks we have witnessed Egypt coming apart at the seams, with a military coup and on the brink of civil war between the ousted Muslim Brotherhood, cutely called by the White...
View ArticleThe Philanthropic-Industrial Complex
By RON JAGER— In his farewell speech to the nation on January 17, 1961 President Dwight Eisenhower warned of the power and influence of what he famously called the “military industrial complex”. An...
View ArticleOasis of Co-existence
By RON JAGER— As we gaze all around Israel, here in the Middle East, we see nothing but chaos and deadly conflict between sovereign Arab states on one side and Arab leaders butchering their own people...
View ArticleObama’s Emotional Learning Curve
By RON JAGER— Over the past week, much has been written about whether President Obama will give the green light and attack Syria for using chemical weapons of mass destruction against her own people....
View ArticleBack to the Future – European Anti-Semitism vs American Assimilation
By RON JAGER— It was last week during Succoth, that we read and heard that timeless quote from Kohelet, “Nothing new under the sun.” A resolution that calls male ritual circumcision a “violation of...
View ArticleQuestioning Israel’s future sustainability
By RON JAGER— The World Happiness Report, released recently, ranked Israel the 11th-happiest country in the world, ahead of the United States, and far ahead of its neighbors in the region, and was...
View ArticleLowering the Iron Curtain on the Middle East
By RON JAGER— “We’re eyeball to eyeball, and I think the other fellow just blinked,” Secretary of State Dean Rusk famously said during the Cuban missile crisis. In global strategic diplomacy, rule...
View ArticleOpen season on the Jews
By RON JAGER— I think it’s time that we all gave “Uncle Tom Friedman” a round of thanks for his latest “wake-up call” article. In his latest column in the New York Times, “Let’s make a Deal”, Friedman...
View ArticleApartheid Revisited
By RON JAGER-– Helen Keller is probably turning in her grave in response to the sign-language interpreter fiasco at Nelson Mandela’s memorial service. A South African man who acted as a sign-language...
View ArticleThe ‘Qeunelle’ gesture is the Nazi salute in disguise
By RON JAGER— Most of us may not have heard of it until recently if at all, but the ‘quenelle’, the name given to a gesture which is performed by pointing one arm diagonally downwards, while touching...
View ArticleSharon’s Lasting Legacy: Strategic Trade-Offs
By RON JAGER— When Gush Katif was destroyed nine years ago, four communities from the Northern Samaria were also systematically destroyed and cleansed of any Jewish presence. These four communities,...
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