When artists scapegoat Israel
Published by: New York Post June 19, 2013 4:00am Dear Ms. Walker, I am writing this letter to you with great pain, after encountering your name in the news, again, calling for a boycott on my home and country. Recently, you urged a popular American artist to boycott Israel. In your statement you claimed that […]
We Have Always Been Marching Together
Published by: New York Jewish Week May 20, 2014 12:00 am What if I told you that one of the biggest events of the year for the State of Israel takes place not in Jerusalem or Tel Aviv but right here in New York City? And that despite being thousands of miles away, every Israeli […]
The Most Dangerous Weapon in Gaza
Published by: The Washington Times Thursday, July 17, 2014 OPINION: There is nowhere left for us to go. Israelis from Eilat to Haifa have heard the red alerts blast as Hamas has indiscriminately launched more than one thousand rockets at our cities over the last few weeks. Israelis throughout the entire country have had to […]
Why Israel cannot relent in this fight
Published by: NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Jul 24, 2014 at 4:30 am Enough is enough. We cannot let history keep repeating itself. For the third time in five years, Israel is being forced to combat a barrage of rockets from the terrorist group Hamas. In 2009, Hamas fired an onslaught on our people, but we […]
Hamas Driven Only by Hatred of Israel
Published by: Newsmax Monday, 14 July 2014 10:54 PM EDT The core of the problem is at the core of Hamas. Over the past few weeks, hundreds of rockets have been fired by Hamas into Israel, putting nearly six million Israelis under direct threat of terror. This Hamas offensive speaks to the incredibly difficult nature […]
How the United Nations Human Rights Council Unfairly Targets Israel
Published by: The Jerusalem Post JULY 30, 2014 5:38 PM EDT here are 1,725 words in the latest resolution released by the United Nations Human Rights Council, which cynically chastises Israel for so-called “human rights violations” in Gaza. Nowhere among those 1,725 words will you find the name of the terror organization that is truly responsible for […]
Widen The Israel Discussion On Campus
Published by: New York Jewish Week February 17, 2015 12:00 am In recent years, the Jewish community has become increasingly concerned with how Israel is perceived on American college campuses. I am asked frequently, mostly by anxious members of the community, about possible solutions to the problem. Throughout my career of more than 20 years, […]
Why Birthright Is The Real Game Changer for Israel
Published by: New York Jewish Week April 21, 2015 12:00 am For the first time in Israel’s 67 years of existence, the conversation surrounding the Jewish state has changed. Rather than seeing Israel as a place of conflict, young people are now looking at it as a place of opportunity. For their parents’ and grandparents’ […]
The Israel Day Parade
Published by: The Jerusalem Post MAY 31, 2015 22:01 Sixty-four years ago, prime minister David Ben-Gurion made a historic visit to New York City. He was given a hero’s welcome by one million New Yorkers who lined the sidewalks of 5th Avenue to cheer him on as he led a parade, showered with confetti and […]
Celebrate David Blatt, A Shining Example of Basketball’s Global Reach
Published by: NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Jun 15, 2015 at 9:51 am Economists will look back at the month of June 2015 in Israel and see that productivity was down significantly. And thankfully it would not have been due to some sort of geopolitical crisis or a natural disaster. It is because millions of Israelis […]