Andrew Wirth, at The Blogs

Jun 13, 2024, 4:53 PM

Image from Netta Lieber Sheffer's: Shattered Hopes and Roads not taken

Jul 7, 2016, 5:53 AM

Bernard Avishai in a postscript to the recent NYT obituary for Elie Wiesel introduces a note of disquiet. He observes that while Wiesel “… condemned the burnings of black churches in the United States, and spoke out against apartheid...

Aug 22, 2015, 11:28 AM

Dropping the A-Bomb in a nuclear free Middle East

Gilligan’s Island (for those too young or too sophisticated to remember) is a ‘60s cornball sitcom about a group of wacky castaways. In one episode, the simple but goodhearted Gilligan listens to a heated dispute and says to Thurston...

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Andrew is a medical specialist working in Australia. He is a regular visitor to Israel and a member of an egalitarian shul in Melbourne. He is married and has three sons. He occasionally suffers from thought bubbles that transmogrify into written form.