David M. Weinberg, Author at David M. Weinberg

Don’t be an overeager beaver

September 29, 2023

Israel needs to approach the emerging peace arrangements with Saudi Arabia and accompanying understandings with the US – with enthusiasm but also caution. Too much zeal for a deal in Jerusalem will boomerang in Israel’s disfavor.

What to pray for on Yom Kippur 5784

September 22, 2023

Pray for judicial compromise, government and opposition restraint, Jewish continuity and peoplehood, the integrity and strength of the IDF, real peace with Saudi Arabia, regime change in Iran, political sanity in America, emphatic Israeli government action against terrorism and lawlessness, and more. Pray for prayer on the Temple Mount instead of Islamic violence.

Prophesies and prayers for Rosh Hashanah 5784

September 15, 2023

Take this Rosh Hashanah political-security quiz and prognosticate on the future for the Jewish new year, in Israel and around the world. (My predictions are recorded at the bottom of the article.)

Weapons, weapons everywhere – why?

September 8, 2023

Oslo is the root cause of today’s terrible epidemic of terrorist and crime shootings in Israel.

Israel’s grand diplomatic opportunities and escalating dangers must outweigh partisan political considerations

September 1, 2023

Self-restraint and maturity are required from the Israeli left and right alike, to allow wise navigation through the next tantalizing and threatening year.

Give Saudi peace a chance

August 4, 2023

Chances for a Saudi-Israeli deal are high, the risks manageable, and the value overwhelming. The doubters and naysayers, as well as those who actively are trying to sabotage such an agreement, are wrong.

Ehud Barak’s poisonous pyromania

July 28, 2023

His seditious warmongering is the true threat to Israeli democracy.

The refusal-to-serve festival

July 21, 2023

Lost in the anti-Netanyahu netherworld are manifold affirmations of commitment to IDF service despite the judicial reform juggernaut. These have evaporated into the thin air of supremely biased conventional Israeli media.

Tribute to Rabbi Sholom Gold of Jerusalem: The most passionate of Zionists

July 14, 2023

Rabbi Gold, who passed away this week at 88, was known for feisty and infectious Zionist passion and for biting witticism. He understood God’s love for all Jews in absolute terms (which he sought to emulate absolutely), and he understood God’s grant of the Land of Israel to the Jewish People in absolute terms, in a totality wrapped with kedusha, holiness. These are not gifts that one can simply fritter away.

Iran’s pincer war on Israel

July 7, 2023

The only real power standing in the way of Palestinian terrorism and Iranian hegemonism is Israel. Alas, no understanding of this reality could be found in media reporting on, or the reactions in most Western capitals to, the IDF operation in Jenin this week.

Author: David M. Weinberg