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 you wanted to know what to think, the Infallible Ones always had simple answers. What was the enemy? A virus called SARS-CoV-2. Where did it come …
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, carved pumpkins on the porches, fantastic spider webs festooning the shrubbery. This year, though, there were hardly any Halloween decorations on display. And like so many …
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 in a glass door. Seven months after her death, her killer – a police officer who apparently shot her without warning, and certainly without having made …
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 Israeli brutality. That’s easily said. Still, with so many falsehoods parading as news these days, why single out the lie that Jews are “under attack” in …
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 is a standing familiarity with a wide range of Jewish jokes – including those that address what seems to be our collective inability to let well …
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 Brother has said, ‘Tis good, ‘tis good, And so the sacrifice is just – Submission now is hardihood, In Big Pharma we all trust…) And hast …
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 to Coronavirus Neverland – whence, on her captors’ instructions, she’s been making frightened phone calls to me and other relatives ever since. What did she say, …
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 our media elites stubbornly refuse to notice. What then? Suppose the reporters and the pundits and the “experts” ignore the coup that has trampled our basic …
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 whom seem not to notice – or actively deny – that, under cover of coronavirus hysteria, the unhealed wounds of Palestine are steadily infecting us all. …
Steve Lipman A review of Turning Back: The Personal Journey of a Born-Again Jew, by Michael Lesher. Published by Lincoln Square Books The typical Jew-who-has-found-the-light-and-discovers-God book follows a familiar pattern: some description of the author’s upbringing in an identifiably Jewish but resolutely secular family, some event that causes him as a young adult to examine …
