Day: October 28, 2018

With all due respect, singing songs, lighting candles and posting the phrase “Never Again”, regardless of the number of exclamation points, is not going to stop anyone from killing Jews. Fear of being shot by armed Jews. That’s what will stop them.

“If every Jew in Europe had had a gun in 1939, there would have been no Holocaust.” There is no disputing this statement and it is appalling how many Jews today find this statement to be offensive. Just as they are offended by the concept of self-defense today. First, Hitler disarmed the Jews. Today Jewish

I can make it rhyme: “To Stay Alive a 45” “Every Jew a 22” I would have said every Jew a 45, but it didn’t rhyme. ~ Rabbi Meir Kahane  

I studied antisemitism with the great George Mosse and later on with Walter Laqueur, Renzo de Felice, and others, and I learned a lot about what drives modern anti-Semites, but what really drove me, from the very beginning, was a question about the victims. I could not imagine getting on the trains to Auschwitz and

After seeing John Lott from the Crime Prevention Research Center publish a rebuttal to a recent FBI report on Active Shooter events I decided to dive deeper into the data and do some analysis of my own. WARNING, this is a long article/report with a lot of images but I am confident it is worth

In 2008, the Supreme Court’s decision in District of Columbia v. Heller gave teeth to the Second Amendment, holding that the “right of the people to keep and bear Arms” did, in fact, guarantee citizens the right to “keep” arms in their home for self-defense. Yet one decade later, lower courts continue to resist following

I heard about the gun attack on Shabbat at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania early Saturday morning. Once I gathered myself and my thoughts together, I knew I had to comment on it. The following reflect  my first thoughts that horrible morning. Nothing has changed days later. E̶i̶g̶h̶t̶ Eleven people have been

The rabbi of the Tree of Life Synagogue wrote this on the synagogue blog 3 months ago Current news recycles at a dizzying pace, with the important topic of yesterday buried beneath the freshest catch of the day. The television talking heads pick over each and every juicy tidbit like vultures over carrion. Just when