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Jun 7, 2018, 4:13 PM

Self-Hating or Just Different

Jews marrying only Jews is racist tribalism. Israel’s security practices are “ human evil” and the IDF is “humanity’s jailers.” Occupation of Palestinians “means imprisonment of all.” So sayeth Michael Chabon, an American Jewish liberal spokesperson and repudiator of...

Apr 9, 2018, 12:58 PM

The demoralizing effect of hate speech

Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef attends the cornerstone laying ceremony for Nezer HaTalmud Yeshiva in Beitar Illit on September 19, 2016. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

Where were was the outrage and demonstrations after the Chief Rabbi made his 'monkeys' comment?

Mar 18, 2018, 10:55 PM

6 Years Through the Looking Glass of Aliyah

I wound down after selling our family business in Chicago, then realized I needed a more productive future and adventure. Now I had to figure out what to do with the rest of my life. My wife suggested I go...

Jan 19, 2018, 4:50 PM

The life and times of Rabbi Akiva ben Yosef (50 CE to 135 CE)

In The Orchard, novelist Yochi Brandes reams the revered sage for choosing fulltime Torah study over his family

Dec 24, 2017, 10:22 PM

Winter holiday music is so Jewish

I’m a baby boomer. American born Mom was the child of Polish Jews scrapping-by through the Great Depression in the land of plenty. They lost everything. Nothing went to waste ever again. We barely threw a garbage bag out...

Dec 6, 2017, 9:39 AM

Leaving Orthodoxy: Critical review of The Book of Separation

There is a fast-growing oeuvre of books and movies by Jews opting out from their religiously observant lives. Two new works are from Netflix, One of Us, and The Book of Separation (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017), a memoir from...

Aug 27, 2017, 11:40 AM

Our Children Left Israel

A recent demographic report is sparking a spate of articles and a Jerusalem Post editorial (August 23, 2017, “Emigration worries”). The data do not capture the pain of separation, but they highlight a drastic national security threat to the...

Jun 19, 2017, 7:07 PM

The Bank of Israel Threatens a War on Consumers

I just read a frightful interview Globes conducted and posted to its web site on June 15, 2017, with the Supervisor of Israel’s banks, Hedva Ber. Supervisor Ber warns consumer debt is rising at too rapid a pace and approaching...

May 25, 2017, 5:55 PM

America is a Seductive Country

Tuvia Tenenbom’s newest book, The Lies They Tell, (Gefen Publishing: 2017), is a social anthropology about America and its Jewish community. He is a best selling author, journalist, and dramatist holding a B. A. in mathematics and computer science....

May 16, 2017, 12:14 AM

Stand up for free speech

Professor Phyllis Chesler stands among a growing contingent of pro-Israel advocates disinvited to speak at schools of higher education, because she is a self-described “radical feminist” and “liberation psychologist.” I know of her as a seasoned activist, organizer, intellectual,...

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About Me

Dr. Goldmeier is a former Research and Teaching Fellow at Harvard University and teaches international university students in Tel Aviv. His new book is HEALTH INSIGHTS @ http://www.amazon.com/dp/B01E3S2MU0 He served in the administrations of three US governors and Surgeon General, is a commerce and industry consultant, writer, and public speaker on social, health, and public policy issues.