Biblical Freedom of Speech
Freedom of speech is a fundamental human value. This value seems to have its home in liberal democracy. In fact, liberal democracy exalts freedom of...
Category : A Sovereign Statehood
Truth Versus Democracy
Although democracies are hospitable to philosophy, it does not follow that democracies are truth-oriented. To the contrary, the freedom of speech and press enjoyed in...
Kingship Under A Torah Government
As Israel approaches its next prime ministerial election, it is worthwhile reflecting on the subject of Kingship under a Torah government. “When you come to...
A New American Party
In view of the moral and intellectual bankruptcy of America’s two major political parties, and regardless of the outcome of the November election, I urge...
Semantic Subversion: Behind the Rise of Barack Obama
When opinion rules, as it does in democracies, it is only necessary to examine, not its truth, but the number of those who express this...
The Fate of the United States
Revisionist historians aside, or those who do not understand Lincoln’s statesmanship, the Civil War that broke out in America after the 1860 election was over...
Professionalism
Israel desperately needs professionalism. Needed is a presidential system that relegates to the dust heap the system of multiparty cabinet government that enabled the Kadima-led...
Accountability
Accountability is a basic Jewish concept, awesome during Rosh HaShana and Yom Kippur. Whereas the Torah Jew knows he is accountable to G-d, the Government...
Two Cheers
Two cheers for Nathan D. Wirtschafter, a member of the Likud, whose article in The Jerusalem Post (September 11, 2008), “Direct elections begin with the...
Something to Ponder and Something to Do
For thirty years—ever since the September 1978 Camp David Accords—not a day passes that warnings are not issued or published by Zionist-oriented individuals in Israel...