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Jun 10, 2026, 4:09 AM

Inches to Metric: Creating Mercaz Lavi – PTSD Center

Our team. Photo Beth Kopin

Our buddy Elie Spivack (co- founder of Mercaz Lavi) came to us four years ago. He was a distinguished combat engineer suffering from PTSD, (post traumatic stress disorder). We did not know it at the time. All we knew...

Jaime Kardontchik

Jun 9, 2026, 7:42 PM

Jews are dhimmis: They cannot have a state

The conflict between the Arabs and the Jews is not about borders: Israel is not interested in not even a square inch of Lebanese territory. It is not about the lack of a Palestinian state: The Palestinians rejected in...

Jun 9, 2026, 6:53 PM

The Girl Who Rode the White Elephant

Yishay Ishi Ron's book Yishay Ishi Ron served in an elite IDF combat unit and is a survivor of PTSD. PTSD stands for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, which is a mental health condition triggered by experiencing or witnessing a terrifying, shocking,...

Dorothea Shefer-Vanson

Jun 5, 2026, 10:38 AM

The Pink Sari (le Sari Rose) by Javier Moro

Reading a book about India in French which has been translated from the Spanish original seems a bit crazy. However, when I picked this book up from the shelf in our local pensioners’ club I hadn’t realized what a...

Jun 3, 2026, 8:24 PM

Essentials of Judaism

Essentials of Judaism is a 558-page volume from Urim Publications, an independent publishing house established in 1997 in Jerusalem and New York (Brooklyn), specializing in high-quality Jewish-interest books. It publishes approximately 15 books annually on subjects such as Jewish...

Jun 2, 2026, 6:45 AM

Edgar Morin (1921–2026): A Complex Mind

Photo/collage: Atmane Tazaghart, Global Watch Analysis

I learn of his death in my home, 3,500 miles away from Paris. To speak about the French-Jewish Edgar Morin, it would be good to go a little back in time. The thread that began in Spain –the West...– of...

Jun 2, 2026, 12:32 AM

What Happens When AI Meets Jewish History?

It’s a familiar tale from the Talmud. God sends Moses a thousand years into the future to sit in the back row of Rabbi Akiva’s study hall, and Moses is confused. He may have received the Torah at Sinai...

Dorothea Shefer-Vanson

May 29, 2026, 5:44 PM

Books and Stuff

Last week, having missed the bus from Tel Aviv to Mevasseret, I found myself unexpectedly on the train. My natural instinct on being in that situation is to read a book, but I didn’t have one with me. I...

May 28, 2026, 8:55 PM

The Future Isaac Asimov Refused to Imagine

And the Life Lesson This Brilliant Man Could Have Learned From Me After an amazing week visiting my sisters and their kids — back in the warmth of my New Jersey childhood home — I’m writing this from 30,000 feet...

Nina B. Mogilnik

May 28, 2026, 8:35 PM

Reading and Righting

I'm most of the way through Amir Tibon's The Gates of Gaza. I'm reading it in preparation for a zoom talk between him and Yishay Ishi Ron, whose novel Dog will be the other book discussed during a moderated conversation...

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