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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...

Mar 21, 2021, 5:58 PM

Oz

Adonai OZ l'amo yiten, Adonai y'varech et amo vashalom. The Lord will give strength to His people; the Lord will bless His people...

Oct 3, 2020, 12:11 AM

A Tale of Wisdom & Belief: Iom Kipur 5781 in Montevideo.

When ambiguity is the word that comes to mind, as well as to the heart, and if one is writing in English, it is unavoidable to quote Dickens’ famous opening of “A Tale of Two Cities”: “It was the...

Jul 12, 2020, 3:03 PM

Israel, the Jewish State

I was born and raised a Jew in Montevideo, Uruguay, in South-America. I’m the son to Zionist parents who made Alyiah in the second half of the 1950s and came back to Uruguay by 1960; I went to a...

Mar 4, 2020, 2:26 PM

Israel & the Jewish People after the Third Election

The third Israeli election in a year has passed and Bibi still is “Melech Israel”. Finally he got the votes he needed and is almost on the threshold of a majority in the Knesset. Sixty-one votes will allow him...

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About Me

1957, married, a son and a daughter. 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 years involvement in community affairs. Attended the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem several times over the years since 2009 for their CLP programs. Writer & lecturer.

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