A Hill With A View

 Originally published May 4, 2022 https://www.queensjewishlink.com/index.php/opinion/6533-harvard-student-newspaper-endorses-the-bds-movement “That which stood for our ancestors applies to us, as well. For it was not only one individual who stood up against us to destroy us. Rather, in every generation they stand up against us to destroy us.” This quote, said by Jews worldwide at the Passover  Seder  a few weeks ago, is accompanied by horrific imagery to anyone with a passing knowledge of Jewish history. The beautifully illustrated Katz  Haggadah  shows a haunting image of Abraham making a covenant with G-d, but in the smoke are images of all the generations that seek to destroy the Jewish people. Starting with the Egyptians, it includes the Babylonians, Romans, Crusaders, Cossacks, Nazis, and Arabs. In the next edition, they should add another group, the one who strives to destroy the Jewish nation in this generation: the College Leftist. The deranged mentality and bloodlust of the Co

Originally published May 4, 2022 https://www.queensjewishlink.com/index.php/opinion/6495-massive-leak-reveals-scotus-plans-to-overturn-roe   In a shocking revelation on Monday night, a leaker from inside the Supreme Court, likely a law clerk, sent a 98-page draft opinion to Politico.  This marks the first time in the Court’s 233-year and over 25,000-opinion history that a draft has been leaked.  The contents?  The highest court in the land is planning to overturn the landmark and controversial 1973 decision Roe v. Wade. Immediately after the leak, barricades were set up around the Supreme Court.  Abortion activists started gathering and chanting obscenities to a building devoid of anyone besides security guards and janitors.  Pundits gathered on CNN and MSNBC wailing, weeping, and gnashing their teeth.  Democrats took to social media to claim that this is the end of democracy, the end of women, and the end of civilization as we know it. Unfortunately, they are wrong.  The overturning o

Originally published April 27, 2022 https://www.queensjewishlink.com/index.php/opinion/6484-the-problem-with-civility   “ W ell, they realized that it’s in their better business interest to go along with [insert Leftist cause here].  They don’t really believe this; they are just making money.  What’s the big deal?”   This reply, or something similar, is the frequent answer given when the latest mega-corporation acquiesces to the cause du jour.  Black squares on social media to show fealty to BLM, rainbow flags in the month of June, and commercials that show men teaching their transitioning daughters how to shave their faces have become so common that it’s taken for granted how radical society has become.   For years - decades even - those with Leftist, progressive views have insisted that everyone and everything around them share those views.  This is not a sudden phenomena.  Back in a 1994 episode of  Seinfeld , Elaine adamantly refused to eat pizza from a particular restaurant becaus

Originally published April 13, 2022 https://www.queensjewishlink.com/index.php/opinion/6447-do-not-expect-a-savior   As Pesach approaches, the story of the Exodus from Egypt will be told and retold many times.  The rich history of Moshe coming back to his people and, as G-d’s emissary, freeing them from bondage.  The Jews cried out for a savior for centuries before Moshe arrived, and when he did, they were freed. That story, which is not only essential to Jewish history but well known worldwide, is deeply ingrained in our cultural psyche.  There is hardly a religion or culture that doesn’t have at least one Messianic figure at its root. It’s natural for everyone to believe that all problems, be it monumental like the enslavement of the Jewish people for hundreds of years, or comparatively miniscule like the freedom to say what you want on social media, will be solved by a savior. That is how the world reacted to the news that Elon Musk became Twitter’s largest single shareholder.  The

Originally published April 6, 2022 https://www.queensjewishlink.com/index.php/opinion/6387-dems-go-all-in-on-gender-insanity   Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is set to be confirmed this week; after squish Republicans like Maine’s Susan Collins gave her the thumbs up, it is all but a certainty. While her confirmation hearings contained many blockbuster moments, the most lasting for our society was a simple question from Senator Marsha Blackburn: “What is a woman?” The question, obvious to anyone on the planet prior to 2017, has become a battle-cry for the sane.  It is a question so simplistic that Matt Walsh, the podcaster and earliest-known asker of the question, was surprised that it took himself so long to posit it.  Once he did, he never stopped.   Despite the biological facts that succinctly answer what a woman is, the left has been obfuscating said facts in favor of subjective self-realization to allow individuals to determine to which gender they belong.  For years, the silent major