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Yaacov Apelbaum

The Princess and The Dictionary

You haven’t tasted pasta, not truly, not quite, unless the Pope’s mother rolled it by candlelight. In Napoli, naturally, in a sanctified pan, then served on the Grand Tour by a liveried man.

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Yaacov Apelbaum

The Qur’an’s Midrash Problem

That is the problem in miniature. The Qur’an is not restoring the Hebrew Bible. It is absorbing Jewish commentary and then presenting it as revelation. This is not “Torah preserved in heaven.” This is a late antique folklore with a divine letterhead.

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Yaacov Apelbaum

How I Took Arthur Bloom, a Vile Antisemite, to Court, and Won

This case sends a clear message: “Free speech” is not a license to fabricate lies, and the First Amendment is not a safe harbor for antisemitic defamation dressed up as opinion. The jury didn’t buy Bloom’s “it’s an opinion” defense. It found liability. It found actual malice. It awarded compensatory damages. And it awarded punitive damages.

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Yaacov Apelbaum

On Catholics for Catholics

This is why the Catholic for Catholic sets off every alarm. It is new. It is grievance-soaked. It is siege-framed. It is emotionally manipulative. It captures a religious identity community, tells that community its institutions have failed, then offers a substitute tribunal composed of celebrities, exiles, demagogues, and professional antagonists. That is not ordinary political advocacy. That is the social architecture of foreign subversion.

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