David Suissa is editor-in-chief and publisher of Tribe Media Corp and Jewish Journal. He can be reached at davids@jewishjournal.com.
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By David Suissa
Even as a college student, Shapiro was able to see what most diplomats, politicians, pundits and peace processors could not: Arafat was a phony.
By David Suissa
On this night, you could feel that the crowd was ready for something different, not just because they wanted to laugh, but because they’re tired of losing.
By David Suissa
The Palestinians who celebrated the murderous act by dancing in the streets and handing out candies were not thinking about the civilized world. They were rejoicing at the death of Jews.
By David Suissa
We’re no longer that weak kid in school, and we should stop acting like one. It’s time to start acting like winners, not because it’s a smart PR strategy but because it’s who we are.
By David Suissa
Because Dave Chappelle plays in the very Jewish playground of comedy, it makes it that much harder to calibrate our response.
By David Suissa
The humanistic view of “Jewish power” gets totally lost in the modern media circus when power is measured in dollars and clicks rather than values and wisdom.
By David Suissa
To the dismay of its critics, Israel has become one of the more creative and innovative societies dealing with some of the planet’s most urgent issues.
By David Suissa
Horrible news rises to the top, not because good news doesn’t matter but because bad news is more urgent.
By David Suissa
We’re much happier when we connect in person, and communities come alive when their members come together.
By David Suissa
America will never survive as the United States unless the exhausted majority starts to make more noise.
By David Suissa
On days when we celebrate the very existence of the Jewish state, we can take a timeout from activism and marvel at the big picture.
By David Suissa
It’s widely accepted by now that in his zeal to get Tehran Iran to sign a nuclear deal—any nuclear deal—the U.S. president has squandered America’s enormous leverage and caved to virtually every Iranian demand.
By David Suissa
Regardless of where one sits politically, it’s clear that the “bad bargain” looming in Vienna would be a victory for evil and a defeat for the rest of us.
By David Suissa
When he responded to truckers protesting vaccine mandates by saying they had “unacceptable views,” Justin Trudeau was undermining the fundamental right to dissent.
By David Suissa
By compelling spineless leaders across the country to diminish our law enforcement, would-be revolutionaries got a lot more than they bargained for.
By David Suissa
While tens of millions of poor souls are dying and starving under brutal regimes in places like Yemen, Afghanistan, Syria, Sudan, Congo and Somalia, among others, the United Nations decided last Thursday that only one country merits an open-ended investigation. If you haven’t been living on Mars the past few decades, you’ve already guessed the name of […]
By David Suissa
Why did Ben and Jerry not show a desire to go deeper and better understand a complicated conflict? Maybe because the messy truth didn’t fit their easy narrative.
By David Suissa
Of the many obstacles to in-person prayer services caused by COVID-19, one of the toughest is surely the mask mandate.
By David Suissa
Some issues simply go too far, and Ben & Jerry’s decision to stop selling its ice cream in “Occupied Palestinian Territories” was one of those.
By David Suissa
Why does it feel as if this great Jewish brand is suddenly getting tarnished?
By David Suissa
When we get to a point where lawmakers are being evacuated from their legislative chambers, that concentrates the mind. There is nothing else to discuss.
By David Suissa
In this year of the pandemic, needless to say, even rock-solid Thanksgiving has been hijacked and turned upside down.
By David Suissa
Do you see a Battle Royale shaping up?
By David Suissa
One reason the polls were so wrong is that many Trump voters are afraid to admit their allegiance. What does that tell us about leftist intolerance or the state of free expression today?
By David Suissa
If we’ve learned anything in American politics, it’s never good to pretend you’re a prophet.
By David Suissa
No wonder Israel-haters are unhappy. Their lie is crumbling. The Zionist state is turning into a source for solutions and hope rather than hatred.
By David Suissa
For liberal American Jewry the moment is NOW
By David Suissa
Jewish pride is not something we should hide—I learned that a long time ago from an organization called the Hebrew Immigration Aid Society.
By David Suissa
As sundown falls on the holiday of Passover, Sephardic Jews everywhere will celebrate the centuries-old tradition of Mimouna—but this year, things won’t be the same.
By David Suissa
In this sudden nasty war against a lethal enemy we can’t see, all of us are on the same side. Politics will have to take a back seat on this one.
By David Suissa
If there’s one Jewish holiday that offers us all a break, it’s Purim. For that one day at least, we can pretend to be someone else. But is that as simple as it sounds?
By David Suissa
Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson showed the world a Judaism that is hard to hate.



