Jack Engelhard

Has the news media been reliable – ever?

For the longest time, I was fooled just like everybody else. I was young. I was in training as a journalist, and the Times was the place to learn your craft., 8/15/2019, 11:08 AM

"A terrible headache" - the Holocaust as seen by the New York Times

Rethinking The NY Times and the Holocaust. A surprising exchange between the writer and the editor of the NYTimes in 1994., 8/12/2019, 3:00 PM

Suddenly, he becomes your son

So many in Israel are like him, like Dvir, and yet Dvir can never be duplicated or replaced., 8/9/2019, 8:43 AM

That other day when America was spooked – Nov. 22, 1963

It’s perhaps worth a moment to revisit the America of the 1960s., 8/6/2019, 6:35 PM

AOC and what the heck happened to America?

AOC and how anti-Semitism is starting to roll off the tongue., 8/4/2019, 7:56 AM

What color is anti-Semitism?

Answer them back when they go off against Israel and instantly you are “racist.”, 7/30/2019, 2:00 PM

A near-perfect pitcher, Mariano Rivera, in an imperfect world

On the mound, he was tranquility in a world plunged in madness, and there is still madness and darkness if you read the papers other than for Sports., 7/28/2019, 6:43 PM

No “Me Tarzan” moment at Mueller hearings

The media was desperate for a crushing quote and the Democrats tried their best, but Mueller did not deliver the goods., 7/25/2019, 6:26 AM

Today's damsels in distress

A few days ago, they went running to Mommy to talk about the “bully” in the schoolyard – Trump. And Big TV is Big Mommy. , 7/22/2019, 7:16 AM

Same fight for survival – USA and Israel

Is this an alarmist position? Both countries have crucial, game changing elections coming up., 7/17/2019, 7:33 AM

Pay-to-slay – it’s time to take this seriously

Each man, each woman is a target so long as the Law of the Jungle persists:, 7/14/2019, 4:38 PM

US soccer women score big win…also for Trump

Americans of all kinds, and from all over, rooted for those women as if they were our daughters. , 7/10/2019, 5:20 AM

Nothing is going to help

Inviting people who bash Israel to visit and see the truth firsthand is not going to change the views of those whose minds are made up, , 7/7/2019, 7:47 AM

To be or not to be Hollywood Jewish

We know Richard, the Israelis can be such a nuisance when once in a while they’ve had enough and go about defending themselves. , 7/4/2019, 4:14 PM

The Dems and their trouble with “old people" - like Joe Biden

Joe Biden should be able to declare himself 56, or 36. What’s fair for gender ought to be fair for age., 7/2/2019, 3:31 PM

More fat cash won’t stop the PA crime family

The PA and associates have a bad habit of squandering money, perhaps, over the years, not counting what the PA leaders have in their Swiss bank accounts. Who gets the $50 billion?, 6/27/2019, 5:50 AM

America isn't great? Says who?

From the comforts of liberty, they cite all the reasons why this country has no merits. We are a lousy people, they say., 6/24/2019, 11:40 PM

AOC’s latest howler

AOC is smarter than you think. She is a tyrant in a ponytail,, 6/19/2019, 4:53 PM

CNN's Jim Acosta – Salinger he isn’t

Nobody asked for this Acosta book, which only perpetuates the obvious, that as never before, finds the news media in the business of blinding the public. , 6/17/2019, 7:24 AM

Fighting Antisemitism with one hand

The evidence shows that American Jewish voters will still go to the polls eyes wide shut., 6/14/2019, 11:02 AM

Still “mad as hell”

Trump and Israel bashing have become interchangeable givens at celebrity functions and this writer has had enough., 6/11/2019, 6:16 AM

Suppose you get to heaven but forgot your password?

A pastor in Virginia actually apologized for praying for an elected US president who stopped by his church. This cannot be America where this is happening…or…or is it only in America where this is happening?, 6/5/2019, 3:58 PM

About Germany’s kippa flap – one question

The question is not really whether Jews should or should not wear a kippa on the streets of Germany. , 6/3/2019, 1:59 PM

Robert Mueller’s 9-minute meltdown

Mueller turned out to be just another bum. Are they all bums?, 5/30/2019, 11:29 PM

The Boys from NYU

Will our American campuses soon be safe for Arabs only? , 5/26/2019, 9:49 AM

How to avoid liberals on Fox News

The concept of “fair and balanced” sounds good, but it does not seem okay when just one TV or print news source adheres to a principle so virtuous, when the rest of them don’t. , 5/22/2019, 4:52 PM

I’d rather talk baseball — Bryce Harper over Rashida Tlaib

Anti-Semitism is not natural to America. Well, it wasn’t, until some people came along, who have no idea what it means to say Jackie Robinson, Hank Greenberg, or Sandy Koufax., 5/19/2019, 12:18 PM

Tliab's whopper

If it’s Monday, it must be Omar, and for Friday, count on Tlaib. This must be planned and cannot be coincidence…when the business is to target the Jewish people bit by bit. , 5/14/2019, 8:58 AM

Another look at Hemingway

I went back to “The Sun Also Rises” and wondered how I missed all the anti-Semitism when I read the book in my youth., 5/13/2019, 6:24 AM

Suppose Hamas puts on a show but nobody comes?

Two days of unprovoked rocket fire into Israel did not get them the PR mileage they expected. Usually the media come to their aid, but this time, not so much., 5/8/2019, 12:45 AM

Trump’s homage to Lenny Bruce

Trump is a funny guy, if only they would give him the chance, which they won’t; their loss, and our loss., 5/5/2019, 7:38 AM

The hand that rocked The NY Times

Dream along with me and pretend something else is going on. I’m thinking Purim-style reversal of fortune…we win, the bad guys hang., 5/1/2019, 9:19 AM

The NY Times cartoon is worse than you thought

So much hostility, and so much prejudice, and all of it heaped on the world’s one and only Jewish State. You’d rather not wonder why. , 4/30/2019, 11:30 AM

It begins with censorship

There is a difference – and this is important – there is a difference between freedom to speak and freedom to talk back. Freedom to talk back is strictly policed - and if you think differently than they think you should, your words are terminated., 4/24/2019, 3:30 PM

When Pharaoh came to town

How quickly people can change, for the worse, when a new Pharaoh comes to town., 4/22/2019, 6:05 PM

Leaderless Dems – desperately seeking a mensch

Not one Democrat has had the backbone to put Ilhan Omar in her place. Netanyahu, now, they manage to chastise in advance., 4/17/2019, 11:43 PM

How to become rich like Socialist Bernie Sanders

Bernie Sanders – the millionaire “author”-- and how he became a millionaire., 4/13/2019, 11:50 PM

The underdog won

If you think I’m nuts for calling Benjamin Netanyahu the underdog, then you haven’t been following the news where they had Bibi getting trounced., 4/10/2019, 7:35 AM

Israeli voters will sway US policy

Whatever “Deal of the Century” emerges, expect it to reflect whichever Israel emerges after Tuesday – a nation to the Left, or a nation to the Right., 4/7/2019, 8:16 PM

Where exactly is your ‘Palestine,’ Mayor de Blasio?

Jewish NYC councilman Kalman Yeger forgot the Democratic party's new rules about not telling the truth when it is upsetting to Muslims and has been punished., 4/3/2019, 6:03 AM

Too bad about Carl Bernstein

Instead of retiring to the countryside as the grand old man of journalism after Watergate, Bernstein could not resist the allures of trapping and skinning for himself another president, and now goes down as a fool., 3/31/2019, 12:04 PM

Post-Mueller denial syndrome

A clueless generation is in post-Mueller denial. Turn on the news and on any of the channels you will find one of them., 3/27/2019, 7:09 AM

Trump’s vindication ought to chill Bibi’s pursuers

They cooked up a Russia probe to bring down Trump simply because they did not like him. Sound familiar?, 3/25/2019, 11:52 PM

Beto O’Rourke – you are no John F. Kennedy

Of the entire gang of Democrat misfits running for president, not a one has the gravitas to shine John F. Kennedy’s shoes., 3/23/2019, 9:13 PM

“Jews don’t give out candy…”

Aren’t we all repelled by acts of terrorism like the ones in New Zealnd and Israel? Apparently not. They are still giving out candy in Gaza as I write., 3/18/2019, 2:42 PM

Hey, you’re talking about my President

“He’s just not worth it,” Pelosi said – words that should never be spoken one American to another. , 3/17/2019, 9:29 AM

Jews dancing with Omar

Suddenly, a lapsed generation becomes Jewish in capital letters, but as partners for the other side, 3/12/2019, 10:30 AM

How often can we bury Kahane?

The same people who are fine with ANYBODY getting into our Congress here, their Knesset there, are horrified at what they see as the second-coming of Kahane in Israel., 3/8/2019, 8:43 AM

The Omar Stain: Mom, baseball, and anti-Semitism

Every time she opens her mouth, Ilhan Omar leaves the entire country with a taste of bad breath., 3/5/2019, 11:57 PM

The Bibi Files: Fresh lipstick on old attempts at indictments

On second reading I had my epiphany, as in…have we not seen these stories before? , 3/3/2019, 7:21 PM

The Kushner peace plan — a partly Jewish Trojan Horse?

Your plans. Their lives. Never has a country paid so dearly for betrayals masked as the best of intentions. , 2/28/2019, 11:00 PM

AIPAC – lobbying for which side?

They are indeed a “powerful lobby” in favor of Israel, but they may yet be a more powerful lobby against Israel., 2/25/2019, 5:31 PM

Beware of Sanders/Gantz and the allures of the left

Two-state solution means your sons died for nothing., 2/21/2019, 7:58 AM

Dems have their own country – and it is not America

Tlaib thinks she’s here in our House to represent Ramallah, Omar thinks we brought her over from Somalia to introduce their customs of piracy, intolerance, anti-Semitism and female genital mutilation,, 2/18/2019, 6:00 PM

Ilhan Omar and a moveable feast of intolerance

These Muslim immigrants feel comfortable enough to bring us a taste of Omar’s Somalia, and other such Islamic hell-holes, where calling for the murder of Jews is a typical Friday sermon., 2/15/2019, 12:14 PM

Ilhan Omar: So young…So anti-Semitic

You are not in Somalia anymore, Rep. Omar, you are in the USA., 2/13/2019, 6:30 PM

Ori's blood cries out to deaf ears

The media’s silent treatment for slain Israeli teen., 2/12/2019, 9:59 AM