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May 7, 2014, 5:24 AM
Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty
Would that it were so, but the current world belies John Keats' romantic image. Beauty has become a commodity and truth is becoming harder and harder to find. Beauty is something traded at Sotheby's and purchased at Harrods or Bergdorf...
Apr 22, 2014, 4:18 AM
Life in the ’70’s: A view from a bridge
I first came to Israel in the '70's. 1973 to be exact; just in time for the Yom Kippur War. Now, some 40 years later, I'm in my own '70's. And lots have happened in between. But I'm not sure where...
Apr 7, 2014, 12:48 AM
Why do they hate us?
As my father would say in answer to a paradoxical question that he had no answer for, "Shit, I don't know," or sometimes, "How the hell should I know?" Or as my teenage friends, Jewish and non-Jewish in Brooklyn would have...
Mar 30, 2014, 12:55 AM
Release the Palestinian freedom fighters!!
What in the world was our government thinking when they agreed to release the murderers of Israeli innocents: the bombers and throat slitters and back stabbers and casual assassins? In the rest of what is referred to as Western Civilization, those...
Mar 23, 2014, 6:02 AM
Palestinians for pieces
Until I went on my low fat diet, I used to love salami-Kosher salami, Genoa salami, any salami. But I never loved Abbas' salami. You know, the salami tactic, slicing off a piece at a time until you get the...
Mar 16, 2014, 5:02 AM
Nu? Another strike? I must be in Israel
In 2002 we made our second aliya. Twenty eight years previously we had returned to the States, enriched by our kibbutz experience, to begin another phase in our lives. What we came away with and what neither of us...
Mar 8, 2014, 10:28 PM
How I became a Jew, continuing……
′My first memory of kibbutz life is spending hours and hours meticulously sewing the number '14' in bright green thread into all our clothes so they could be sorted out in the communal laundry. And to this day, forty years later,...
Mar 3, 2014, 3:32 AM
Obama, Israel and ‘blunt warnings’
A recent article in the TOI dealt with the US President's 'blunt warning' to Vladimir Putin that there 'will be costs' to Russia's actions in Crimea and eastern Ukraine. But what exactly will the cost be? And to be blunt...
Feb 22, 2014, 8:35 PM
How I became a Jew, Part 1
In 1973, I looked around at my life and decided it had to change. Probably a stupid decision at the time, but it did in fact change my (and my family’s) life. I had a relatively good job as a...
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Professor of Writing at two Community Colleges, Fulbright Scholar (universities in Russia and Belarus) member of local JCC, secular rather than religious, married many years with children and grandchildren.
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