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Jun 24, 2025, 5:19 PM

Fires of Rockets: Fires of Hope

View along the River Thames in London after an air raid during the Blitz (Public Domain) .

“Someday when peace has returned to this odd world, I want to stand outside my home here in Israel. And standing there, I want to tell somebody who has never seen it how Israel looked on a certain night...

Jun 18, 2025, 8:50 PM

A Time to Hoard What Matters

I admit it. My name is Noson, and I’m a hoarder. Not just stuff, though goodness, yes, I may have bought too many things during this war. Too much toilet paper, too many groceries, too much water, too much “just...

Nov 24, 2024, 4:38 PM

Douglas Murray in Jerusalem: Churchillian in His Defense of Western Values

For Douglas Murray evil is not banal. It is real. It walks this earth, and we must call it by its name when we see it. When he spoke last week in the ICC Jerusalem, it was the greatness...

Aug 13, 2024, 1:24 AM

Finding Answers Amidst the Ashes: Tisha B’Av 2024

In a year marked by so much pain and hate, it seems as if we are going nowhere. So many things do not seem to be going right. Many of us wonder where our country and the West as...

Oct 20, 2023, 4:56 PM

O Brave New World, That Has No People In It!

It is hard here now. Rockets and sirens. Running to shelters. Fear for the people kidnapped that the world doesn’t care about. Fear for all the soldiers who may die in a ground war. Trauma in millions of people. Many...

Oct 13, 2023, 7:11 PM

To defeat terror, we must defeat Cain

We are all so shocked, by the terrible loss of life more than anything else. The complete failure of our military and security institutions is awful, but sadly not completely shocking. The streets are empty. Schools are closed. People are...

Apr 22, 2023, 11:26 PM

Break Bread: Not Heads!

Let’s “Deother” Through Eating Together. Are we still supposed to be worried about the fissures in Israel? Brother against brother? Or now that the Judicial Reforms have been scaled back/pulled we are not? Well, we should be. These protests exposed a...

Apr 11, 2023, 9:20 PM

Pharaoh Father of Propaganda

Pharaoh Father of Propaganda Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who knew not Joseph. 9 And he said unto his people: 'Behold, the people of the children of Israel are too many and too mighty for us;...

Aug 17, 2021, 3:21 PM

Israel’s Government Is Too Simple; Not Too Complex

The real problem with the government of Israel is its simplicity, not its complexity. This may sound strange as complexity is often seen as one of main causes of Israel’s governing woes. Too many parties, too many fractions, too...

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About Me

Noson Waintman obtained his M.S. from the Zicklin School of Business of the City University of New York and his B.A. and Rabbinic ordination from Yeshiva University. A native of Canada, he currently resides in Rehovot, Israel.