By RON JAGER-— Helen Keller is probably turning in her grave in response to the sign-language interpreter fiasco at Nelson Mandela’s memorial service. A South African man who acted as a sign-language interpreter at Nelson Mandela’s memorial service was a “fraud” who simply made “childish hand gestures” and sign language “gibberish” for hours as he…
By RON JAGER— I think it’s time that we all gave “Uncle Tom Friedman” a round of thanks for his latest “wake-up call” article. In his latest column in the New York Times, “Let’s make a Deal”, Friedman writes and by doing so has officially declared open season on the Jews, this should be a…
By RON JAGER— “We’re eyeball to eyeball, and I think the other fellow just blinked,” Secretary of State Dean Rusk famously said during the Cuban missile crisis. In global strategic diplomacy, rule number one has always been; don’t blink. In recent months President Obama has been doing a lot of blinking, forfeiting hard gained leverage…
By RON JAGER— The World Happiness Report, released recently, ranked Israel the 11th-happiest country in the world, ahead of the United States, and far ahead of its neighbors in the region, and was based on data collected from 156 countries between 2010 and 2012. The report ranked the happiness of the world’s nations based on…
By RON JAGER— It was last week during Succoth, that we read and heard that timeless quote from Kohelet, “Nothing new under the sun.” A resolution that calls male ritual circumcision a “violation of the physical integrity of children” was passed overwhelmingly by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, a pan-European intergovernmental organization.…
By RON JAGER— Over the past week, much has been written about whether President Obama will give the green light and attack Syria for using chemical weapons of mass destruction against her own people. Much of the American public has been inundated with reports on the major networks, op-ed pieces in national and local newspapers…
By RON JAGER— As we gaze all around Israel, here in the Middle East, we see nothing but chaos and deadly conflict between sovereign Arab states on one side and Arab leaders butchering their own people on the other side. Suddenly, it seems as if all of this primal Islamic rage just popped out of…
By RON JAGER— In his farewell speech to the nation on January 17, 1961 President Dwight Eisenhower warned of the power and influence of what he famously called the “military industrial complex”. An expression that was coined to depict the enormous power yielded by the leaders of the Defense industries and all those corporations involved…
By RON JAGER— In Recent weeks we have witnessed Egypt coming apart at the seams, with a military coup and on the brink of civil war between the ousted Muslim Brotherhood, cutely called by the White House “the brothers”, and the newly installed secular interim government. In Syria, the civil war has taken the lives…
By RON JAGER— It was during my last year of high school back in 1974, when I heard and read about for the first time, the incredibly tragic case of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. This Jewish American husband and wife who were convicted of passing nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union and were executed in…