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Sep 14, 2024, 10:29 PM

Reading the polls

The recent joint poll (PSR & TAU) published by Times of Israel regarding the war in Gaza and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict can be useful for many purposes. After all, numbers are always true and useful; but it is the...

Jul 1, 2024, 12:42 AM

Missing ‘Hartman’

This year we could not make it to “Hartman” (The Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem, or SHI). It was not because of the war but because of personal matters that had us stay home. For happy events, thank God....

Mar 20, 2024, 2:01 PM

We are a month (and change) away from Pesach. A month (and change) to start counting the Omer. By then we will be well beyond six round months since October 7th, 2023. So this Pesach we will be asking...

Dec 15, 2023, 12:10 AM

The Moral Agenda

From the Shalom Hartman Institute podcast by Donniel Hartman and Yossi Klein-Halevi of December 12th, “Israel at War-Gazan Civilians”, I quote Donniel regarding his experience of touring the US during this time of war at home (Israel): “Here in North...

Mar 7, 2022, 1:15 PM

Where do children go? Israel.

The current events in Ukraine, with millions of its citizens fleeing their country in face of the Russian invasion, offers a new, albeit unasked for, perspective on Zionism and The State of Israel. The truth is that except for...

Feb 7, 2022, 5:58 AM

From Colleyville to Apartheid

Two events have highlighted the main concerns of the Jewish people both in the Diaspora and in Israel today: the first is the hostage situation at Colleyville, Texas, and the second is the recent report by Amnesty International (AI)...

Nov 10, 2021, 1:18 PM

Whose Journey, Whose Zionism

After reading two articles on The New York Times last week, and after pondering about them for a while, not quite knowing which direction to take in a humble attempt to confront them to some point, suddenly this morning...

Nov 8, 2021, 2:08 PM

The Circle of Life

For a moment, during the past Shabbat, while I was finally reciting Kadish for my father’s second Iortzait (Iosef ben Pinchas Z’L) at the Wimbledon Synagogue in London, I thought the circle was closing right there, in that surrounding,...

Oct 8, 2021, 9:01 PM

Medina Ktana: A country in a small scale

This country, Israel, is the land of the young and the shelter of the elderly. Middle-aged working people support both. The concept “old-people’s home” does not apply to the premises where I’ll be staying for a month, visiting my mother,...

Apr 11, 2021, 5:45 PM

Aspects of Shtisel-3

Let’s take a look at “Shtisel 3” by applying E.M. Forster’s “Aspects of the Novel”, considering the vagueness with which the concept was first coined by the author: an attempt for a universal approach to the art of storytelling. It...

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About Me

1957, married, a son and a daughter, two grandsons. Very closely related to Israel, residing in Uruguay. Retired. Lay leader at NCI, the Masorti congregation in Montevideo. Served twice as President of the Board. Vice President of the Board of the Jewish school. Twenty-five years involvement in community affairs. Attended the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem nine times over the years since 2009 for their CLP programs. Writer & lecturer.

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