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Jul 21, 2024, 5:25 PM

Baseless Blame of Bibi

Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu, to state the obvious, is a complex individual and a complex national leader. Among his less admirable traits that are cited by some are a giant ego and suspicion and distrust of many who work...

Jul 15, 2024, 12:09 PM

Missed Opportunity

“But Moses said to the people of Gad and to the people of Reuven, “Shall your brothers go to the war while you sit here?” Bamidbar 32:06 The late author, academic and ambassador for the Jewish People, Elie Weisel was...

Jul 9, 2024, 6:13 PM

Old Fears, New Reality

Old habits die hard. Apparently, so do old fears. For many, perhaps most American Jews, Jews outside of the Orthodox community, the ethos of liberal politics has replaced the values and beliefs of traditional Judaism that have for centuries...

Sep 15, 2013, 12:49 PM

Anything But Normal

As reported recently by the media, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, under pressure by the more extreme right-wing faction of his Likud party, abruptly canceled a meeting with a leadership delegation of the Palestinian Authority that had requested to be...

Sep 11, 2013, 6:47 PM

The failure to punish Assad for his atrocities sends a familiar message to all potential genocide victims: You are alone

Aug 28, 2013, 8:22 AM

Palestinians are NOT Afro-Americans and this is NOT 1963

Today, the twenty-eighth of August, marks the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington. The estimated 250,000 marchers makes it the largest political rally for human rights ever held in the United States. It is the event where, standing...

Aug 19, 2013, 10:21 PM

Abbas: Stop the Gratuitous Slander

If the whole thing wasn't so incredibly tragic, it might be humorous. In Syria, over 100,000 people have died over the last two years in a civil war that experienced observers were sure would be over in a few...

Aug 11, 2013, 5:55 PM

Not a Good Match

My wife is a psychotherapist who practices marital counseling. She is scrupulous about maintaining the confidentiality of her clients, but from time to time she will anonymously make reference to yet another couple who in her opinion should never...

Jul 19, 2013, 2:25 PM

Zimmerman, the EU and Israel

What does the European Union’s recent vote to prevent its institutions from providing “support in the form of grants, prizes or financial instruments” to companies or organizations with activities in the West Bank, East Jerusalem or the Golan Heights...

May 21, 2012, 11:31 AM

BBC’s ‘Spooks:’ Stranger than non-fiction

At first we thought we hadn't heard correctly. Surfing late night TV cable offerings this past week, my wife and I had landed upon a rerun of a highly popular BBC Entertainment production "Spooks,” series 5, episode 7, circa 2006....

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Ardie Geldman writes about Israel and diaspora Jewish issues. He lives in Efrat.

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