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Nov 26, 2024, 5:14 PM

Ramblings of a Disordered Mind

Famous New York Times headlines: New York, November 25, 2024–Israeli rabbi who disappeared in Dubai is found dead. Washington, April 14th, 1865–Lincoln Found Dead After Disappearing From Theater. And a personal favorite–“Israel Keeps Attacking Journalists. When Will The US Intervene?” Maybe after...

Nov 21, 2024, 4:47 PM

A World Congress of Decency

We know exactly when the criminals and reprobates whose descendants now rule Australia arrived in Botany Bay. The first fleet of eleven convict ships arrived on January 20, 1788 to found Sydney, a penal colony that was the first...

Nov 20, 2024, 9:53 PM

The Life of Sarah

Two of the parshiot in Sefer Bereshit have the word life (chai) in their titles, and both are concerned with death. This week’s parsha, Chayei Sarah, opens with the death and burial of the matriarch Sarah. Vayechi, the last...

Nov 14, 2024, 12:52 AM

Some Immodest Proposals

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness . . . it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness,...

Nov 7, 2024, 11:22 AM

I can’t take all the credit

I was feeling a bit self-conscious, and perhaps unrealistic, at attributing credit for Trump’s remarkable comeback victory to the many blogs I wrote for this esteemed publication. But then I heard Ben Shapiro claim that the election was decided...

Oct 31, 2024, 3:20 PM

Democracy, Judges, and Their Discontents

Before the war, Israeli society was mired in an internecine battle over its judiciary. An ascendant right, having promised judicial reform if it were to prevail in the election, introduced legislation to restrain what it took to be a runaway,...

Oct 25, 2024, 5:59 PM

'Et tu, Brute?' by William Holmes Sullivan (PD)

It's a betrayal to vote against Trump when you know he will likely be better for an Israel that is fighting for its survival

Oct 16, 2024, 12:33 PM

Hypocrisy in Pursuit of Power

David Lammy, the Harvard-educated Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom, has announced sanctions on three “settler outposts” and four organizations, including the somewhat controversial Od Yosef Chai Yeshiva, in response to what he claims is continued violence by “extremist...

Sep 25, 2024, 2:21 PM

Shoes and Other Weapons

In 1986, an American minister and author named Robert Fulghum wrote a best seller called All I Really Need To Know I Learned In Kindergarten. I never read the book because I actually attended kindergarten myself and had presumably...

Sep 20, 2024, 5:32 PM

Compromise is overrated: Give war a chance

'The Judgement of Solomon,' by Raffaello Sanzio, in 1518 or 1519). (Wikimedia Commons)

Trying to please all of the people all of the time leaves everyone grumpy, where decisive victory, which Israel needs, would pave the way for the future

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About Me

Gary Epstein is a retired teacher and lawyer residing in Modi'in, Israel. He was formerly the Head of the Global Corporate and Securities Department of Greenberg Traurig, an international law firm with an office in Tel Aviv, which he founded and of which he was the first Managing Partner. He and his wife Ahuva are blessed with 18 grandchildren, ka"h, all of whom he believes are well above average. [Update: . . . and, ka"h, one great-grandchild.] He currently does nothing. He believes he does it well.

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