Marc Schulman, at The Blogs

Oct 31, 2022, 10:41 AM

Please Vote: Not For Parties That Support Netanyahu!

Tomorrow we go to the polls … again, and my son, who is turning 23, will be voting in his fifth election. Israel is now ranked number one for conducting the largest number of elections in a short period....

May 29, 2022, 8:08 PM

Why I No Longer Celebrate Jerusalem Day

Today is Jerusalem Day, a day I celebrated enthusiastically in my youth. It was an important holiday, commemorating the liberation of East Jerusalem and the Western Wall from Jordanian occupation. Finally, after 2,000 years, Jerusalem was once again the...

Mar 22, 2022, 6:43 PM

The Holocaust is uniquely Jewish; holocausts continue

When President Zelensky of Ukraine spoke to the US Congress and compared the attacks on his country to Pearl Harbor and 9/11, the President received a standing ovation. When Zelensky spoke to the British Parliament and compared the attacks...

Mar 4, 2022, 12:03 PM

‘If I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when?’

Israeli Humanitarian Aid. (Shlomi Amselem GPO)

There are times I’m embarrassed to be an Israeli. Now is one of those times. For all our successes in the ways we take care of Jews throughout the world, we seem insular and often unable to do the...

Sep 24, 2021, 11:51 AM

Hey Bari Weiss, Why Not Move to Israel?

Bari Weiss recently wrote a powerful essay, titled “Everybody Hates the Jews,” which raises the alarm on growing antisemitism in America, from both the right and the left. This piece, by the favored, former New York Times opinion columnist...

Sep 19, 2021, 4:36 PM

The Challenge of Receiving a Package in Israel: A Semi Humorous Look

When I first moved to Israel 45 years ago, the only economical way to send packages in the country were the “Package Services” run by the Sherut companies between major cities. If you wanted to send a package from...

Aug 12, 2021, 12:25 AM

Israel’s Failing Covid Response: The Sequel

As a historian, I am aware that the lessons of history are unfortunately too often lost on policymakers. However, one would think that a government would learn from events that took place, not in ancient history, but just one...

Oct 26, 2020, 11:49 PM

Why No Jew Should Vote For President Donald Trump: Take Two

Exactly four years ago, I reluctantly wrote take one of this article. As a historian who maintains a website that includes a section chronicling the history of American Presidential elections, and a book with the same title, and as...

Sep 1, 2020, 6:33 PM

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Netanyahu, J’accuse!

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (C) and Education Minister Yoav Gallant (L) visit Israeli kids on their first day of school in the Mevo Horon settlement on September 1, 2020. (Marc Israel Sellem/ POOL)

When it comes to this disease, Israel is losing the war: sound policy was discarded long ago and hundreds, or more, will die in the coming weeks

Jun 23, 2020, 9:31 PM

We could have been New Zealand….

Six weeks ago, in my regular Newsweek column (“Tel Aviv Diary”), I wrote that Israel had done an excellent job containing the spread of Covid-19, but cautioned that our national impatience might undo all the good we had achieved....

About Me

Marc Schulman is the editor of Historycentral.com -- the largest history web site. He is the author a series of Multimedia History Apps as well as a recent biography of JFK. He holds a BA and MA from Columbia University, and currently lives in Tel Aviv. He is also a regular contributor to Newsweek authoring the Tel Aviv Diary. He is the publisher of an economic news App about Israel called DigitOne and has a weekly newsletter on substack called Israel Update

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