Category: Politics

Palestinian Terror Strikes Get Little Attention in Media

6/1/2018

As hours of news broadcasts covered the racist and outrageous tweets of Roseanne Barr, 216 projectiles, rockets, and mortars fired from Gaza into Israel went relatively unreported or underreported.

Read my latest Newsmax article, "Palestinian Terror Strikes Get Little Attention in Media" to try to bring greater transparency to the threats facing the Democratic Jewish State.

Newsmax

Kol HaBirah Story on President Trump's "Faith and Opportunity Initiative"

5/10/2018

On May 3, President Donald J. Trump marked the National Day of Prayer by signing an executive order creating the White House Faith and Opportunity Initiative. At the signing ceremony in the White House Rose Garden, Trump referred to this initiative as “another historic action to promote religious freedom.”

The executive order revoked previous presidential faith-based initiatives, namely President George W. Bush's Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives and President Barack Obama's Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships.

Read my latest story for Kol HaBirah.

Faith and Opportunity Initiative

From K Street to the Knesset – Pt 2: Addressing Anti-Semitism at Home and Abroad

3/28/2018

Spring has sprung.

It has come in like a lion. But I hope that it goes out like a lamb. And I’m not talking about the weather. Well, kind of…

On Friday, March 16, an elected official from DC’s Council serving the residents of Ward 8, made a regrettable statement. This was not his first. His subsequent apologies rang with a sense of sorrow. They spoke of regret. They addressed a need to move forward and to use the remarks as a learning experience.

Read my latest GatherDC blog post on anti-Semitism in DC and abroad.

GatherDC

DC Event Spotlights Role of Jews and Jewish Thought in America’s Formative Years

2/22/2018

On Feb. 14, U.S. Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Rabbi Dr. Meir Y. Soloveichik discussed the relationship between religion and American government and the contributions that biblical ideas have made to American political thought at an event hosted by the Hoover Institution. The discussion, which took place in partnership with the Tikvah Fund at the Hoover Institution’s Washington, D.C., satellite office, was part of the institution’s monthly “Opening Arguments” series and was moderated by Research Fellow Adam J. White.

Read my latest article in Kol HaBirah to learn more about the program.

Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT)

Quoted in Kol HaBirah

1/25/2018

Israel Bonds Washington Executive Director Adam Herman pens an op-ed in Kol HaBirah to recap the 2017 year. I'm quoted saying:

“To me, the most tangible thing a Jewish man or woman in the diaspora can do to support Israel is to make aliyah, and the second most tangible thing is to support the country economically," said Langsner. "I choose Israel Bonds as one of my ways to do that.”

Israel Bonds

From K Street to the Knesset – Pt 1: Zionism Today and Into Tomorrow

1/17/2018

It is the year of chai (18) – of life – so let us all hope that 2018 is the year that a just and lasting peace is found between the Israeli people and the Palestinian people.

Some signs point to optimism, such as the recent behind-the-scene actions of Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in how they’re approaching a new peace plan with the Palestinian Authority (PA) leadership. Other signs point to continued pessimism, such as how the PA and United Nations reacted to President Donald Trump recognizing Jerusalem as the capitol at the end of 2017, that such a peace will not be found this year.

Read my first post in a new blog series for GatherDC.

GatherDC

Supporting Israel to Defeat Anti-Semitism at Georgetown

11/8/2017

Philadelphia's Jewish Exponent publishes my Washington Jewish Week article on anti-Semitism at Georgetown and my response to it. Read, "Supporting Israel to Defeat Anti-Semitism at Georgetown."

Jewish Exponent

Featured in an ILTV Commercial

11/3/2017

Israel Bonds asked for my testimonial and voice to be included in a "Bonds to Universities" marketing campaign, where alumni from universities purchase Israel bonds and donate them to their alma maters. The commercial ran in the popular ILTV network.

Wall Street Journal Features BIPAC

10/29/2017

Working with reporter Theo Francis, I helped to get BIPAC's Employer-to-Employee (E2E) data reported in the Wall Street Journal. Read, "Businesses Push Workers to Mobilize Before Tax Revamp."

WSJ

We Need to Talk Anti-Semitism, and Not Just Internally

10/26/2017

My latest Kol HaBirah article looks at the rise in anti-Semitic incidents in the DC Metropolitan region and how our community has responded. Read the article, "We Need to Talk Anti-Semitism, and Not Just Internally."

Kol HaBirah