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Leonard Grunstein

Leonard Grunstein is a retired attorney, banker and co-author of Because It’s Just and Right: The Untold Back-Story of the U.S. Recognition of Jerusalem as the Capital of Israel and Moving the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem. He is the founder and chairman of Project Ezrah, a nonprofit that supports those facing unemployment with job-search assistance and counseling. A descendant of Polish Holocaust survivors, he helped fund an archive on Jewish life in Poland through the YIVO Institute.

As Europe puts Israel in its economic crosshairs, Washington should enforce existing obligations—and sanction perfidious state BDS actors.
Rosh Hashanah confronts us with the need to perfect ourselves.
Hamas, not Israel, is the real genocidal force.
In life, it is good practice for the eyes to see before the mouth describes what has been seen.
The United States is built on Jewish foundations.
Pro-Hamas protesters in New York City and elsewhere are perpetuating falsehoods to the extreme.
Allies need to join together—and not shirk from the battle against antisemitism and anti-Israel bias in all its forms.
Iran’s post-strike escalation confirms just how potentially destructive the regime’s intended next phase of war would have been had it not been preempted by the United States and Israel.
The U.S. secretary of state should consider designating the Palestinian Authority, PLO and their associated proxies as Foreign Terrorist Organizations due to active concealment of their violations.
Let’s not allow agenda-driven political theology to divide us.
The resolve by two extremely capable powers, coupled with the willingness to act backed by military capability and prowess, is being amply demonstrated.