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There isn’t much we hear these days that can be categorized as “sweet music.”  And so we must relish it whenever we hear even a...

Today was Tu B’Shvat. Actually the time considered the new year for trees (an issue with import in Jewish law) but popularly thought of as...

As most of you undoubtedly know, Ariel (Arik) Sharon, 85, former prime minister of Israel, passed away yesterday, after eight years in a comatose state...

I’m encountering a lot of anger here in Israel, and the depression that often follows.  Pit-of-the-stomach anxiety, too.  How could it be otherwise? Kerry took...

The installation of a new computer has – incredibly – slowed down my writing for about a week.  Learning new systems can be a challenge....

Motzei Shabbat (After Shabbat) From multiple sources I am picking up considerable concern regarding the broad implications — diplomatic and security — with regard to...

Let me qualify this: The only viable game.  I’m speaking of the Levy Report Campaign.  I’m not promoting this because I’m working on it. Quite...

My readers already understand that the Campaign to promote the Levy Report has gotten underway here in Israel, and that it’s a major task.   We...

More than a bit, actually, as Israel is digging out from the snowstorm of the century.  It is the story that has taken headlines in...

The big news here in Israel has to do with winter, all right. But most definitely not the Islamic sort (which I’ll get to below). ...