Michael Boyden

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Apr 17, 2025, 11:34 PM

Not Worth Dying For

My beloved son, Jonathan z"l, was killed by Hezbollah terrorists while defending Israel's northern border. He served in ZaHaL, - which literally means "Israel's Defence Force" (IDF). Many would question whether the war currently being waged in the Gaza Strip...

Apr 9, 2025, 9:26 PM

Ahangama – An Israeli Paradise

Ahangama is a town that most people have never even heard of unless they belong to the surfing community. Situated within the Principality of Ruhuna in South-West Sri Lanka, it boasts the first printing press brought to the country by...

Mar 20, 2025, 10:09 PM

Enough Is Enough

Many of us were awakened at four o'clock this morning to the sound of air raid sirens as the Houthis once again launched a missile attack against Israel. And shortly after 1 p.m. we once again sought shelter as Hamas...

Mar 6, 2025, 11:52 PM

Rotten to the Core

A friend of mine suggested that Gal Gadot be Israel's next prime minister given the manner in which she speaks up on behalf of Israel and the Jewish People. I told her to forget it, because the Israeli political system...

Mar 3, 2025, 8:23 AM

Have you heard of OCHA?

You probably haven't heard of OCHA. OCHA is the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. "Humanitarian Affairs", of course, primarily means Palestinian "refugees". I put the word in inverted commas, because what Palestinians call the Nakba happened...

Jan 22, 2025, 4:35 AM

Hubris is Israel’s Worst Enemy

Those who live outside Israel sometimes remark that Israelis are arrogant and think they know better. Many years ago, a French, Jewish media chief assembled a group of five leading figures in the field to meet with the Israeli ambassador...

Jan 16, 2025, 7:26 AM

Little to Rejoice About

The deal that has been struck between Israel and Hamas is obviously on one level a cause for celebration. 33 of the hostages who will be released include, so it is reported, the Bibas children, who were abducted on October...

Jan 8, 2025, 3:18 AM

Is it Time to Attack Iran?

In his Reichstag speech on January 30, 1939 Adolf Hitler called for the "annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe". If European Jewry had listened to his speech, then maybe six million Jews would not have perished in the Holocaust....

Jan 2, 2025, 10:45 PM

The Game Is Over

There comes a time when the charedim can no longer hide in their yeshivot while our soldiers, including reservists in their 50's, are fighting on all fronts to defend our country. The days are gone since Ben Gurion exempted 400...

Nov 23, 2024, 12:00 AM

Time to End this War

From the very beginning many of us said that the two original objectives of this war – to destroy Hamas and bring the hostages home - were unachievable. Thirteen months later, over 800 Israeli soldiers are dead and thousands more...

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About Me

Made aliyah from the UK in 1985, am a former president of the Israel Council of Reform Rabbis and am currently rabbi of Kehilat Yonatan in Hod Hasharon, Israel.