by Jack Moline | Aug 7, 2024 | Feature-, Opinion
A few years ago, my friend Peter Maer called me with a request. Peter had a very successful career as a journalist for CBS Radio and he knows an important story when he hears it. He had gotten to know the guy he hired to do some work on his house in Northern Virginia....
by Jack Moline | Sep 3, 2021 | Opinion
Jews are just about the only people with the peculiar blessing of having an entire category of bigotry named for them. When you have that kind of “honor,” it should be unsurprising that you would be exquisitely sensitive to it. It is often affirmed by Jews, publicly...
by Jack Moline | Sep 2, 2021 | Opinion
My friend Rabbi Arnold Resnicoff had a distinguished career as a chaplain in the U.S. Navy and beyond. His experience in active duty – and most especially ministering to the victims of the bombing of Marine barracks in 1983 in Beirut – made him deeply devoted to...
by Jack Moline | Sep 1, 2021 | Opinion
There are many words that provoke strong responses in discourse around religion and politics, but few are so poorly understood as “Zionism” and “antisemitism.” Like Lewis Carroll’s Humpty Dumpty, too often these words mean whatever the speaker decides they mean. By...