Jack Engelhard

Jack Engelhard

Columnist

New York-based bestselling American novelist. Writes regularly for Israel National News Arutz Sheva

News by Jack Engelhard

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Jack Engelhard: Me and Robert Redford

So yes, I did meet Robert Redford. It was at the filming of my novel “Indecent Proposal” in which he starred. Op-ed.

Jack Engelhard: Me and Robert Redford

Jack Engelhard:

Let us pray

Charlie Kirk had promises to keep. Let us pray that America fulfills them. Opinion.

Let us pray

Jack Engelhard:

Netanyahu’s resolve

Israel is a country that fights on with tears in its eyes…always towards victory. Believe Netanyahu when he says so. Opinion.

Netanyahu’s resolve

Jack Engelhard:

No red carpet for Mahmoud Abbas

For Rubio and the Trump Administration, the blinders are off, and there shall be no hospitality for thugs and murderers. Opinion.

No red carpet for Mahmoud Abbas

Jack Engelhard:

Make it funny

When I try to write something uplifting but turn the page to find Zorhan Mamdani staring me in the face, it is hard to be hopeful, let alone funny. Opinion.

Make it funny

Jack Engelhard:

US media versus Israel

I must learn to be subtler…more diplomatic. Until then, beginning with Macron, those are a collection of dirty rotten scoundrels. Opinion.

US media versus Israel

Jack Engelhard:

Netanyahu versus the world

No one talks about the humanitarian crisis facing Israel, no one talks about the soldiers, reservists, their parents and grandparents. After all, they're Jew. Opinion.

Netanyahu versus the world

Hamas knows how to play this game. Do we?

Where I come from, we call it socking it to the Jews…and chalk up a win for Hamas. Exactly as they had it planned. Opinion.

Hamas knows how to play this game. Do we?

Bless Netanyahu and Trump, because what comes next could be awful

Can you imagine a Mamdani ruining New York City and a Hunter Biden finishing up the rest of the counttry? It could happen. Opinion.

Bless Netanyahu and Trump, because what comes next could be awful

Jack Engelhard:

Colbert and the end of American humor

Colbert offended half the country. His monologues were rambling lectures against Trump. Colbert was spiteful, hateful. Opinion.

Colbert and the end of American humor

Jack Engelhard:

Does the snake deserve another chance?

Twenty years ago, Israelis were expelled from their thriving communities in Gush Katif. The Palestinian Arabs took over this good earth and trashed it for rockets, tunnels, warfare, terrorism, and barbarism. Let them govern? Forget it. Opinion.

Does the snake deserve another chance?

Jack Engelhard:

When NYC was Sinatra’s kind of town

Nothing lasts forever, but turning NYC into a wasteland is going too far. Opinion.

When NYC was Sinatra’s kind of town

Trump shoots. He scores.

America and Israel, together, the greatest show on earth. Opinion.

Trump shoots. He scores.

Jack Engelhard:

Operation Rising Lion…the movie

I say a movie, indeed a blockbuster, to tell the story of Israel as it is today, a nation of warriors desirous of peace. Opinion.

Operation Rising Lion…the movie

Jack Engelhard:

The Ayatollah has no clothes

Trump is a mighty world leader, and a true friend of Israel, but never can he fully understand what it means being a Jew, and the anguish of being tormented by one tyrant to the next. Opinion.

The Ayatollah has no clothes

Jack Engelhard:

Thank G-d Bibi was in the right place at the right time

Trump and Netanyahu work well, perfectly, as a team. They’ve both been through hard times together, like staving off snotty lawyers and judges. Opinion.

Thank G-d Bibi was in the right place at the right time

Jack Engelhard:

The countdown had begun

From one US president to the next, up to and including Trump, they all said, “Iran will never get the bomb.” Sure. Opinion.

The countdown had begun

Jack Engelhard:

The loneliness of being Jewish

We were not prepared for what was coming, not in the USA. Opinion.

The loneliness of being Jewish

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Are we winning? Does anybody know?

They have two things going for them, the Gaza civilians and the media worldwide, and those two cards they play to the hilt. Opinion.

Are we winning? Does anybody know?

Jack Engelhard:

The Biden coverup scandal, and my book of revelations

Sign here, those people said, and he signed.

The Biden coverup scandal, and my book of revelations

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Netanyahu remembers Amalek

Trump…and the rest of the world…will never fully understand what Oct.7 did to the pride of the nation. Opinion.

Netanyahu remembers Amalek

Jack Engelhard:

The Pope, Catholics, and the Jews

Is the new Pope good for the Jews? These days, frankly, is anything good for the Jews? Opinion.

The Pope, Catholics, and the Jews

Why have so many women been brainwashed to hate Jews?

Why is antisemitism the default position for so many of these nut cases? Opinion.

Why have so many women been brainwashed to hate Jews?

This year’s Holocaust Remembrance, without me

Usually, when we write about the Holocaust, we end on a high note. We say…nothing like this can ever happen again....Op-ed.

This year’s Holocaust Remembrance, without me

It won’t be easy deporting 15 million illegal migrants

From all over the world, they came, among them the diseased and the violent, and nothing was done to stop them from swarming our towns and neighborhoods. Until Trump - and now the Democrats are trying to stop him. Opinion.

It won’t be easy deporting 15 million illegal migrants

Jack Engelhard:

Holocaust Survivors need our love and attention, urgently

There is nothing typical about any Survivor story. All are different. All are unique. All need to be told. All need to be heard before it’s too late. Opinion.

Holocaust Survivors need our love and attention, urgently

Trump nails it on Gaza

Trump said to Netanyahu that he cannot understand why Israel left Gaza. I said the same in 2005, but the Left thought it was a great idea. As Trump said, how did that work out? Opinion.

Trump nails it on Gaza

Jack Engelhard:

What is a man?

A friend, a scholar, tells me that kids today, among the ones he teaches, find Scriptures too masculine…signs of the times, that is, our times and our new sensibilities. Opinion.

What is a man?

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Duped

Today we trust nobody, neither the media, nor the government, nor our leaders because they lied. Opinion.

Duped

Deportation Blues

Trump wants Khalil and all these other student visa campus radicals deported…saying essentially…”your fist-pumping antisemitism is not welcome here in America.” Op-ed.

Deportation Blues

Jewish students – Arise!

Why are Jewish students so timid? How about this for a change…fight back. Opinion.

Jewish students – Arise!

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Time to take out the garbage

Starting with Mahmoud Khalil, who is here, in our country, on a student visa, but hopefully not for long, if Trump and ICE have their way. Opinion.

Time to take out the garbage

Jack Engelhard:

A movie they won’t make anymore

Seems that every Oscars program, one year to the next, brings up the same winners with the same message…blame the Israelis. Remember Exodus? Those days are over. Opinion.

A movie they won’t make anymore

Zelenskyy’s bad day…and mine

Being sent to the principal's office is the closest analogy to what happened to poor Zelenskyy. Opinion.

Zelenskyy’s bad day…and mine

Where are Israel’s smart people?

For the sake of Zion, this can’t go on. Israel needs to be Israel again…the tiny nation that could. Opinion.

Where are Israel’s smart people?

The outcry against Gaza is so great and their sin is so grievous

I wonder what Arabs around the world must be thinking. After all, these Palestinian Arabs are their kin. Do they feel shame? Does Mohammed approve? Opinion.

The outcry against Gaza is so great and their sin is so grievous

From JFK, to Trump’s “new frontier”

Go ahead say it…history repeats itself, only this one took some 60 years to happen again. Op-ed.

From JFK, to Trump’s “new frontier”

On being more merciful than G-d

What can be simpler than a war between good and evil, and when will we, as Jews, stop being more merciful than God Almighty? Opinion.

On being more merciful than G-d

Make Gaza great again?

On dispersing the Gazans, bless Trump for getting this right. It is about time they charmed somebody else. But who decides what happens next? Opinion.

Make Gaza great again?

About mass deportations

Today, we live in a different world. Trump’s world, where soft thinking, defeatist thinking, is incompatible with his vision and leadership. Opinion.

About mass deportations