The Truthful Project

 As appeared on my Times of Israel blog.   The author, in a ‘cool’ Karate stance. (mid-1970’s) A lot has been written about Mr. Robert Kraft’s Blue Square 2026 Superbowl commercial on antisemitism. As a former advertising and marketing professional, I would have strongly recommended that the scenario in the commercial should have played out like my own personal high school experience. As a teenager, I was short, weighed about 135 pounds, and had very thick lenses in my eyeglasses, meaning I had very poor vision without them. I was also a poor athlete yet somehow I found the love of Karate when I was in tenth grade (1968-69). I grew up in a suburban Long Island religious modern Orthodox community and went to a yeshiva day school. However, for eleventh and twelfth grades, I attended a local public high school. Life changing to say the least. Left vs. right. Hippies vs. Jocks. Girls and boys actually sitting together, eating, and even playing together. A great m...

To recap, first there was Yitz Greenberg's Jerusalem Post December 22, 2025 article:  Death penalty debate: Jewish reverence for life vs Ben-Gvir’s cheapening of life We countered his "ideal world" and dismissiveness of both Ben-Givir and Rabbi Meir Kahane in our article that ran in the Jerusalem Post on January 13, 2026:  Is the death penalty for terrorists proposed by Ben-Gvir 'Jewish'? On January 18, 2026, the Jerusalem Post printed two articles, on the same page, that rebutted our arguments in a very personal and derogatory attack. One was by Yitz Greenberg " The prob­lem with death pen­alty for ter­ror " and one by  Michael Zoosman " Incit­ing mar­tyrs and invit­ing murder ". Here is our reply to Messrs. Greenberg and Zoosman,  to both their unrealistic "ideal" world approach and uncivil tone. The the Jerusalem Post has not printed this article of ours:   Itamar Ben-Gvir's new law proposing the death penalty for terro...