Miles Berger // Berger Organization

Miles (Mordechai Pinchas) Berger is the chairman and CEO of the Berger Organization, overseeing the company’s large real estate portfolio in both the commercial and hospitality space. The majority of the company’s investments are...

For Whom Mr. Bell Tolls // One squad member’s woes are just part of...

It would be premature to eulogize the influence of the “Squad,” the cohort of Congressional “progressives” (scare quotes because progress is in the eyes of the beholder). But there are signs of the group’s declining...

Reassessing Israel’s Precarious Relationship with the Biden Administration // A Conversation with Israel’s...

The last time we spoke was right after the October 7 atrocities, and you were pretty pleased with President Biden’s response. Have things changed since then? Things have changed radically—not unpredictably, but certainly radically. In...

You have questions—Lunchbreak interviewees give answers

From time to time, I receive questions from the readers of the Lunchbreak column about their business, asking to share advice from others who have been there, done that. I sent five of these questions...

Cartoons, Canards and Poison Programs // Welcome to the world of Arab media

Covered in blood, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is eating a child. That succinctly describes a cartoon published by a Libyan news organization on this past October 20. The next month saw a Bahrain news outlet...

Argentine President Comes to Israel “to Say Thank You” // Rabbi Shimon Axel Wahnish,...

Javier Milei, recently elected president of Argentina, a country of close to 46 million people, is undoubtedly a phenomenon in international politics. His trip to Israel this past week was his first visit abroad...

A Chasidishe Non-Jew // My interactions and impressions of President Milei...

On September 10, 2023, a week before Rosh Hashanah, I got a call from Rabbi Mendy Kotlarsky asking me to meet with this underdog Argentinian candidate for president. He wasn’t expected to have any...

Leon Cooperman // Omega Advisors

There is increasing alarm at the rising trend of anti-Semitism among the elite universities in America. A growing number of blatantly anti-Semitic groups have been given free rein by these colleges, and many Jewish...

Lonely voice in a nasty jungle // No, we don’t eat people… or refuse...

It was 1967 and nine-year-old Bassem, a Yerushalayim-born Arab, was visiting his aunt’s one-room apartment in the Old City. The aunt’s radio was broadcasting news of how Israeli soldiers had recaptured the city. The boy...

Combining Halacha, Chasidus and the Practice of Medicine // Dr. Yehuda Sabiner shares the...

After pursuing his lifelong dream of becoming a doctor, Yehuda Sabiner, an ardent Gerrer chasid and resident of Bnei Brak, made history when he began his internship at Israel’s Sheba Medical Center, just when...