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Abe GurkoThe Times of Israel (Blogs) |
How we weaponized language, reduced it to letters, and lost the ability to talk to each other. Think of a word that bugs you. Got it? Now reflect on...
And To Be Honest, The Latter Is a Total Drag. Tonight is the last night of Jewish Heritage Month. In an hour, Gay Pride Month begins. The bewitching...
And the Life Lesson This Brilliant Man Could Have Learned From Me After an amazing week visiting my sisters and their kids — back in the warmth of...
Why This Day Is So Meaningful…Especially For Me Fifty-two years ago today, my father died. He was fifty years old. Seventy-eight years ago today,...
And The Grey Lady is the Paper of Broken Record Charles Dickens wrote, “It was the best of times and the worst of times.” For the Grey Lady, the...
And The Delicious History Lesson We Need Right Now! Most people have never heard of Peter Bergson. They’ve never heard of Jan Karski either. Or the...
It was worse than arguing with my husband! It started with something that shouldn’t have erupted into an argument. I was working on a new Substack...
The Hypocrisy of Separating Jewish Identity from Israel While Still Expecting Jewish Support “If you’re equating ‘Israel lobby’ to Jews, I got...
Or Will Robots Replace Our Fairweather Friends? ne, but because of all this talk about AI and robots taking people’s jobs, seeing the driverless...
Moral Clarity Gets Lost in Clown Show Politics. There was something amiss about what we’ve saw unfold in this third iteration of the “No Kings”...
Put Upon—Plenty—But It’s Always Your Loss The story of Passover isn’t about the leaving of Egypt—it’s what happens after. Because the real...
The Reality Show No One Wants—Yet the Next Generation Needs. In a recent op-ed, I declared, “assimilated Jews had fallen prey to an illness — a...
Can We Let Bygones Be Bygones and Stop the Persecution? With news that John Galliano has signed a major new deal with Zara, the outrage cycle against...
At a Time of Rising Antisemitism, America’s Houses of Worship Have Never Been More Vulnerable. The federal government has quietly reduced one of the...
It’s Time for Jews to Act Up, Fight Back, and Fight Our Enemies. Another attack. Another statement. Another round of carefully worded outrage from...
The Current Anti-War Rhetoric on Iran Echoes the Sludge of America’s 1930s Nazi Movement. I am a refugee from the Democrat Party, having walked away...
Beware Those Rushing to Declare World War III!!! “War, what is it good for?” — Edwin Starr Absolutely nothing. That is, unless you’re dealing...
And Sadly, So Is the Women’s Movement! The “Supreme Leader,” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is dead. It’s heartbreaking to watch the exuberant,...
In a rare cultural outing — especially for us Angelenos — my friend Orly and I decided to see a one-man show the other night in Hollywood. We...