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Aug 29, 2021, 3:29 PM

Life is not a regression from hope to happened

The Israel branch of our family tree

Too often life is a regression from hope to happened: Hoping for a specific future while not taking concrete steps to get us there so things we once put a premium on perniciously fade away. Its called: The perishability...

Dec 12, 2020, 8:26 PM

The Artist makes you feel what you know. The Writer makes you know what you feel.

The Artist makes you feel what you already know – And the Writer makes you know what you already feel. Paintings have names and art shows are accompanied by written brochures, while books use illustrations to round out what they communicate....

Nov 22, 2020, 6:53 PM

Mundane Diary of a Profane Night

Ori ran alongside me on the same Jerusalem slope near Har Moriah like the ram Abraham caught to sacrifice instead Isaac. In David’s City, steps away from the Temple Mount - the navel of humanity, Ori couldn’t just see...

Jul 7, 2019, 6:34 AM

Solomon Tekah was the 6,000,001 Jew in Israel

In 2010 Israel grew to have six million Jews. It is the children of those who came from Ethiopia that finally got us to be more than six million. Now painfully, we lost one and are going in the...

Apr 9, 2017, 2:44 PM

600,000 Jews left Egypt & On Passover in 1948 there were 600,000 Jews in Israel

Before Passover, I take my children to the Judean Desert outside Jerusalem to look at Mount Nebo. From that height above Jericho Moses surveyed the Promised Land. I obtrusively place my children in the landscape given to the Children...

Jan 24, 2017, 7:45 PM

The CDC must contain Obama’s Deadly Ideology

The Center for Disease Control's (CDC) mandate to control, contain, and eliminated health threats must be immediately enacted to contain Obama's ideology: Radical Islamic Terrorism Does Not Exist – before the global epidemic he incubated kills more people. Throughout both...

Oct 7, 2016, 8:57 AM

Shimon Peres owes me a bottle of Moroccan wine

In 1994, Foreign Minister Shimon Peres affixed the mezuzah on the door way of the Israeli embassy in Rabat, Morocco. At the ceremony, I raised a glass of kosher Moroccan wine to celebrate with Professor Shimon Shitreet, a minister...

Jan 1, 2016, 5:55 PM

Jews have four New Years

New Years' Eve in Israel - I irreverently walked the dog at midnight to dismiss the Gregorian New Year. I have only five lines on my tombstone and I really want to punctuate them with meaning and script them...

Oct 17, 2015, 11:06 PM

Noah — A vet’s commentary

My Dog asked the rabbi's Dog: "How is it that Noah took two of each type animal on the ark, but God let Noah bring all of his three sons?" The rabbi's Dog consulted a veterinarian who commented widely on...

Oct 17, 2015, 8:57 PM

Terrorist Stabbings in My Hometown

Ra'anana, Tuesday, 9 a.m., stabbing on Ahuza Street, the city’s Main Street. Where? Near my middle son's junior high school. 10:30 am: Stabbing in our neighborhood, between the ice-cream parlor and the bookstore where my fourth-grader goes. My children have lived their...

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About Me

Dov Hoch has been published in Arabic and Hebrew in 50 Middle East media outlets. He is a founding board member of Yemin Orde Educational Initiatives; and SIGNAL - Sino-Israel think tank; he served for 10 years on the executive board of the America Israel Chamber of Commerce. He is President of the Penn Club of Israel and Co-Chairman of the Ivy League Alumni in Israel. Dov lives in Ra'anana with his three sons where he is both Noah and the Ark and their door-step to Zion. His first book is: The Perishability of Importance.