Samuel Breslow

Nov 20, 2023 | forward.com | Samuel Breslow |Elliot J. Cosgrove

For all the joys of Thanksgiving, it is a holiday that can bring the pent-up pressures of family dynamics into full relief. All our intergenerational fissures around a single table for an exclusive one-night engagement. This year, the Israel-Hamas war may make many Thanksgiving dinner conversations more challenging than usual.

Nov 15, 2023 | forward.com | Samuel Breslow |David Greenberg

Following Hamas's slaughter of an estimated 1,200 innocents in Israel on Oct. 7, a stream of manifestos issued forth from students, writers and intellectuals, several of them appearing to justify the bloody rampage. Horrified by these letters, various organizations responded by postponing events, revoking speaking opportunities or rescinding job offers to people they considered apologists for terrorism.

Nov 1, 2023 | forward.com | Samuel Breslow |Jessica Steinberg

JERUSALEM - A friend told me that when she was dropping her daughter off at preschool here in Jerusalem the other day, some of the other parents were freaking out about the Arab men they saw working on the grounds. The parents wanted to call the police; my friend brought the workers some cookies instead. They didn't eat the cookies, but my friend thought they appreciated the gesture. And who knows. Are they Hamas supporters? Do they hate us?

Oct 10, 2023 | forward.com | Samuel Breslow |Michael J. Koplow

In the aftermath of the unspeakable and multiple failures that led to Saturday's horrific massacres and abductions of Israelis by Hamas fighters, the recriminations inside of Israel are going to be thick. Questions abound regarding the Israel Defense Forces' preparedness and capabilities and the government's placing its judicial overhaul and de facto West Bank annexation policies above everything else.

Oct 6, 2023 | forward.com | Samuel Breslow