Steve Apfel

The nuclear genie – nourished by Obama, bottled by Trump, let out by Biden. What gives?

Dr Faustus gambled his own soul, but Biden, bartering with Iran behind closed doors, gambles with the lives of hundreds of millions. Op-ed.

To commemorate Jewish martyrs you don’t even have to like Jews

Anti-Semites combine hatred for the living Jew with reverence for the dead – unless they were killed by Palestinian Arabs. Op-ed.

Finale: No Balaam no bondage no Pesach

How the Midrash explains the bondage of the Israelites to Pharaoh as an idea spawned by Balaam, with Jethro against and Job silent.

No Balaam no bondage no Pesach

Between the lines of the Midrasjh saying that Jethro, Job and Balaam were called to Pharaoh to advise him on the growing Israelite problem.

A Progressive's Passover

Every year, Moses impersonators crop up to grant the Palestinian Arabs automatic victim status, exempting them from adulthood. Op-ed.

Hired to bless a conference, he seized the moment to curse Israel

For a progressive "rabbi" to praise Israel is as difficult as it is for CNN to praise Trump, and this one was no different. Op-ed.

How jihadist does God want Israel to be?

Today's halo brigade is insatiable. It sets the bar for Israel-only Israel-too high to be cleared, the better to make Israel trip. Op-ed.

Priestly priority: 1 Jew, 2 Muslim, 3 Christian

Can clerics square the circle of exerting themselves to attack Jews while having no time for Christendom exploding on their doorstep? Op-ed.

How people deny the Holocaust without denying it

They deflate the Holocaust to a massive crime while they inflate Palestinian suffering to a massive crime so that the two are level. Op-ed.

Is lockdown a cure that kills the patient?

Lockdowns in the wrong hands threaten liberty unless meant to buy time until the population is vaccinated - what Israel is doing now. Op-ed

Tyrannical governments use lockdowns to promote evil, not health

Israeli small business owners and unemployed get stipends to keep their heads above water. We should pity the rest of the world. Op-ed.

Tribes apart: The elites and the rest of us

Marx is passe. Today labour is not against capital. Non-elites are in a struggle with elites, divided by elite contempt for liberty. Op-ed.

That was some family Isaac married into

Isaac married into a poisonous branch of his father's family. No wonder Rebecca was happy to leave.

Woke Democrats are not so elite

Think about it, They support a crime family and run a protection racket  Op-ed.

Woke Democrats have a fatal deficiency.: They can't think straight

It takes a political campaign to bring out how completely scatterbrained the Woke, Harvard alumni and all, can be. Opinion.

Attacking a subversive Jew is not anti-Semitic

Pharaoh type antisemites rationalize their hatred but Amalek types simply hate Jews as do BLM, Antifa and some very monied Jews. Op-ed.

The pandemic reveals what has become of humanity

It is not only about lockdowns and the severity of the covid pandemic, it is about our ability to cope compared to the past. Op-ed

To mix politics with religion may be wrong but justified

A look at America, Britain and South Africa

Peace deals ignore the elephant in the room

Trump could do the impossible. But to do it he has to spot the lurking mammoth that knows why decades of peace proposals were archived.Op-ed

COVID-19 is one part public health, one part palaver

Is there nothing and nobody with a respect for science? Experts even? Op-ed.

The Book of Job: Why God wrecked a man seemingly blameless and God-fearing

What was Job's sin? One that we all must be aware of- one no one else can know of- but which is the utmost test of Free Will. Op-ed.

Turning synagogues into mausoleums makes no sense

Is the policy for shuls a good one? Is taking up a bazooka to kill a cockroach a good plan? In public health you must use common sense

South Africa paid the price for defaming Israel

In the failed, corrupt state of SA claims beyond wild are levelled against the Jewish State. Challenge them and you are toast. Op-ed.

Pikuach Nefesh wrongly bans Jewish gatherings in the time of Corona

Drivng a car is more dangerous than gong to shul if you keep the rules. So why are the shuls still closed?

Fighting a pandemic with hypocrisy and bias

Lockdown rules? It all depends on what color you are in terms of politics and skin, and what you are breaking lockdown rules for. Op-ed.

How to exploit a pandemic

Those who get a monthly pay check come hell or high water get the right to tell those who need to work to make money, not to work. Opinion.

Beware tyranny more than Covid-19

A writer says that worldwide lockdown policy is the cause of more ills than it prevents and a way for bureaucrats to achieve control. Op-ed.

The Whys and Wherefores of Israel Boycotters Part III

The Whys and Wherefores of Israel Boycotters, Part II