Dov Fischer, among the most beloved American Spectator writers, has died after a long illness.

The Rabbi Steven Pruzansky writes: “Rav Dov was an individual of great passion, courageous, intrepid, outspoken, keenly intelligent, and with a sublime gift of expression, sometimes profound and serious, sometimes subtly sarcastic and sometimes simply funny. He was a graduate of Columbia University, a musmach of Yeshiva University’s Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, and earned his law degree at UCLA. For a time, he practiced high stakes litigation with two prominent law firms. He taught Torah in several venues — as a Rav in Jersey City and a Rebbe at Rogosin Yeshiva High School in his youth, and then in California, with a plethora of his shiurim on YouTube.”

I have received the compliment, and I took it that way, from readers that I was their second-favorite American Spectator writer. I knew what was coming. Dov was their favorite. Probably other of my colleagues share this experience. When I disagreed with him in a column a year or so ago, the complimentary close of his private response read: “Anyway, still love ya.”

He was a happy warrior and not, from my vantage point, a scrunched-face table-banger. He wrote passionately about the law, Israel, higher education, Donald Trump, and whatever subject interested him. In his last of hundreds of columns for The American Spectator, Dov advised: “Whenever you read that Trump’s executive order has been stopped, copy and paste the judge’s name in the ‘news’ article, and then Google that name with the word ‘Wikipedia’ added (e.g., ‘Allison D. Burroughs Wikipedia’). Go into the judge’s Wikipedia page and scroll down to the section titled ‘Federal Judicial Service.’ (The same section appears for all federal judges.) And there you will see something like: ‘On July 31, 2014, President Barack Obama nominated Burroughs to serve as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts.’ That’s all you need to know. Either the Obama Judge’s ruling will be reversed in three to six months by the circuit court of appeals or in six to nine months by the U.S. Supreme Court.”

All you need is Dov, indeed. Sadly, we no longer get that. Dov Fischer, rest in peace.