Recently, billionaire Sheryl Sandberg (ex-COO of Meta/Facebook) released a roughly 60-minute film purporting to explore “the sexual violence committed by Hamas on October 7, 2023.” Though denoted a “documentary,”...

You almost want to feel sorry for Israel’s professional apologists in mainstream media these days. Their job, a fetid one at best, has been especially trying lately. First they...

Michael Lesher Until very recently, I thought I could no longer be shocked by any news about Israel’s savagery against the trapped people of Gaza – or about my...

Michael Lesher Remember the serial murderer who called himself “Son of Sam,” and whose unpredictable homicides terrorized New York City for twelve months some 46 years ago? If you do, you’ll...

Michael Lesher Dear Religious Zionist: Your most recent email to me – in which you ask me to “take a long look in the mirror” because my truth-telling about...

Michael Lesher Remember the spotted lanternfly? Barely a year ago, this colorful winged insect was supposed to be a harbinger of national disaster. Native to China but increasingly visible...

Michael Lesher “The first thing we do,” says Dick the Butcher in Shakespeare’s early history play Henry VI, Part II – “let’s kill all the lawyers.” In Shakespeare’s telling,...

Michael Lesher Suppose I tell you in advance that the essay you are reading is meant to startle you. And suppose I suggest, by way of demonstration, that two...

Michael Lesher In early 2020, when American liberals wailed in unison that the First Amendment’s guarantee of the right of free assembly was a prescription for national suicide – and not one...

Michael Lesher Maybe it’s because I’m a religious Jew and a supporter of Palestinian rights – and because it’s lonely to be both. Maybe it’s because war hysteria always...

Michael Lesher In one sense, I don’t have much to say about the newest chapter in the eight-year-old American war against the people of Ukraine – nothing that you...

Michael Lesher Remember the good old days at the beginning of the COVID coup – before the new dogmas started to tangle themselves into self-contradictory knots? Back then, if...

Michael Lesher Audio Version New Feature! Halloween was once a popular holiday in Passaic. Year after year, my neighborhood’s lawns abounded in mock-terrifying October decorations – witches on broomsticks,...

Michael Lesher More than seven months have passed since an unarmed protester named Ashli Babbitt was shot dead inside the US Capitol while attempting to climb through an opening...

Michael Lesher The claim that the world is awash in an outbreak of Jew-hatred is a myth – a fiction cynically recycled every few years as a cover for...

Michael Lesher “A spirit [of piety] is characterized not only by what it does but, no less, by what it permits.” Rabbi Leo Baeck One consequence of being Jewish...

Michael Lesher Seek thou the Covid Jab, my son! The genes that morph, the fraud that hypes! Let Pfizer have its way, but shun Those frivolous skeptic types! (Big...

Michael Lesher I want to report a crime. Here are the facts: About a year ago, my 85-year-old mother was kidnapped by a gang of charlatans and dragged off...

Michael Lesher You know how it goes: if a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it, et cetera…? Suppose an entire society goes to smithereens, while...

Michael Lesher As the year 2020 expires in an embattled welter of politicized suffering, I feel I need to address my fellow advocates for Palestinian rights, too many of...