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April 8, 2013
7:16 pm

Cardozo Honoring Jimmy Carter – Oy Vey

One doesn't need a law degree to know the adage, "sticks and stones can break my bones but names can never hurt me." All kids know this, and......

February 21, 2013
4:41 pm

A Peep from Plains

On the verge of President Obama’s upcoming visit to Israel, and as world leaders scramble to discuss the steadily deteriorating situation in Syria, with Egypt’s new government......

August 27, 2012
2:44 pm

It Feels Like May Again

I know its August, but it feels like May. In May 1967, there was a palpable sense that Israel was......

July 30, 2012
3:46 pm

Romney: Right on Israel

Yesterday I got to share a few words with Mitt Romney. Five to be exact. As he walked by me at his public event in Jerusalem to which I......

July 23, 2012
3:38 pm

Earthquake in the Center of Israel

Is that an earthquake I just felt in the Center of Israel? Tremors are definitely under foot. We live on a major fault line where a major earthquake is......

July 13, 2012
9:31 am

Three Days in July

In July 2006, I had the opportunity to organize a blood drive for a community of Iranian-American Mashadi Jews who were in Israel celebrating the bar and bat mitzvahs of......

July 11, 2012
6:09 pm

The Longest Distance Between Two Points

Math was never a particular strength, but I have some faint recollection from geometry or algebra (or something like that), that the shortest distance between two points is a......

June 12, 2012
6:15 pm

Blood Donors are Heroes

Blood Donors are Heroes Jonathan Feldstein Director, Heart to Heart www.afmda.org/heart-to-heart June 14 marks the World Health Organization’s......

April 22, 2012
10:02 pm

Yom Haatzmaut Dayeinu

Living most of my life in the United States, I knew Israel’s independence was not something to take for granted, and indeed to be celebrated at every opportunity. Nevertheless, with......