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Douglas Altabef

Douglas Altabef

Douglas Altabef is chairman of the board of Im Tirtzu and a director of the Israel Independence Fund. He can be reached at: dougaltabef@gmail.com.

Americans and Israelis see the merit of the Iran war effort very differently.
How sustainable are Judaism and the Jewish people when the ties that bind them are merely “cultural”?
A letter penned by non-Orthodox rabbinical students bemoaning the Jewish state’s “violent suppression of human rights” will go down in the annals of communal infamy.
The left’s hypocrisy regarding foreign interference in elections aside, such interference is both dangerous and illegal.
For many American Jews it is a source of profound discomfort and embarrassment that Jews actually carry weapons and fight.
The idea that foreign nationals are allowed to harass soldiers protecting their own country seems inconceivable, yet until recently it has been a common Israeli reality, devoid of pushback.