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Op-Ed: The New RDS Movement: History Will Vindicate This

Seven years ago, an allegedly feminist Canadian academic, Sunera Thobani, wrote a scathing denunciation of only three other feminist academics—all of whom happened to be Jews: Judith Butler, Zillah Eisenstein, and myself. No one but I seemed to notice

Honoring unjustly forgotten foremothers

In 1932, Rachel Katznelson-Shazar published an extraordinary anthology titled: The Plough Woman: Memoirs of the Pioneer Women of Palestine. In 1994, Elizabeth Sarah, in a wonderful anthology edited by Sybil Sheridan, and titled Hear Our Voice. Women in

Op-Ed: Jewish Students Fight Back on Canadian Campus

Jewish students are standing their ground and fighting back. It's Gaza in the Canadian Rockies on campuses. While Canadian PM Harper, a true friend of Israel, "gets it," the politically correct students at the University of Calgary do not. They believe

Out in the Open: Anti-Zionism is Anti-Semitism

We have lost the first round in the Battle of Ideas, but at least with this admission, the lines are drawn. Stephen Harper, the Prime Minister of Canada, has just announced that "anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism." May he live long and prosper. In 2002, I

Some Facebook Musings

Dear Friends and Readers: Some of you are already my Facebook "friends" but many of you are not. I've just decided to choose from among my almost daily Facebook postings and send them out to you. The advantage of becoming my Facebook "friend" is that you

I Won the National Jewish Book Award!

I am blessed, anointed, my cup runneth over...and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever. This award is in the category of Biography, Autobiography, and Memoir. I am among some other very honorable winners (Hasia Diner, Matti Friedman, Moshe

Mukhtar Mai: The Opera

In the course of human events, certain actions and special individuals have been known to inspire operas. Like life, most operas also end in death—but the dying go down singing—and beautifully. Women, especially, die on the operatic stage. Their

When Is Palestinian Incitement Against Israel Morally Equivalent to Just About Anything?

Some are amazed and gladdened by the fact that, in early January, the New York Times has finally—finally!!—published a piece about the Palestinian incitement of Palestinians to hate Jews and to understand that they have been born to destroy to

Glad tidings for the new year!

Dear Readers, Dear Colleagues, Dear Friends: First, let me thank you for your generosity in response to my annual fundraising appeal. Second, let me share my blessings with you. An American Bride in Kabul has received two new and rather wonderful reviews

Op-Ed: The Roman Solar Year That Was

Politically, this has been a very bad year. President Obama's administration has managed to reduce America's stature in the world, abandon freedom-loving peoples everywhere, betray our own Ambassadors, (think: Christopher Stevens and his military aides