Ran Zev Schijanovich

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Aug 5, 2014, 10:37 PM

What Gaza has Taught Me

You want to know why I no longer support the two-state solution? Look at what has happened to Gaza. When we left Gaza exactly 9 years ago, it was controlled by the Palestinian Authority (PLO) under the leadership of...

May 23, 2014, 4:14 PM

The Self and the Flock

We humans are rather complicated creatures. Fundamentally, we are social beings, our natural state is to be surrounded by family and community. We are not meant to be alone. Though some will find solace in isolation (or at least...

May 16, 2014, 1:28 PM

Disconnected American Jewry (or How do we Solve a Problem like America)

Undoubtedly the United States is today the bastion of diaspora Jewry. Approximately 5.4 million Jews live in America, with France coming in a distance second with about 480,000. Overall, close to 70% of diaspora Jewry makes its home in...

May 8, 2014, 8:45 PM

Price Tag is Terrorism? — Highly Misplaced and Dangerous Moral Equivalency

Price tag actions constitute acts of terrorism? Well, that is precisely what Justice Minister Tzipi Livni and Internal Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovich would have us believe following their emergency meeting and press conference held yesterday, May 7. They are...

May 4, 2014, 1:10 PM

Not just Another Nation

Technically, I am a sabra. I was born in Israel in 1970 to an Argentinean father and an American mother. Unfortunately, my parents left Israel when I was four months old. From there my life became an odyssey by...

Apr 10, 2014, 5:33 PM

Kerry’s Cowardice

Secretary of State John Kerry crossed a red line Tuesday this week at the hearing of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations at which he placed the blame for the collapse of the peace talks on Israel: Unfortunately, the prisoners...

Feb 11, 2014, 7:45 PM

Humility in the modern world

In the Jewish tradition, Moses is the greatest and most revered Jewish leader and figure of all. He is also regarded as the most humble: "Now the man Moses was exceedingly humble, more than any person on the face...

Feb 4, 2014, 2:19 PM

The Kerry Kenundrum

Secretary of State John Kerry has been the talk of the town here in Israel lately, so why not join the fun. Israelis differ in their answer to the question, "is John Kerry friend or foe?" One has to...

Jan 30, 2014, 5:19 PM

The psychology of anti-Semitism and the link to anti-Zionism

It has been referred to as the oldest hatred -- Jew hatred that is. It is a hatred that has persevered for millennia, transmuting and re-emerging in its various mutations and reincarnations. The reason and cause of this persistent hatred...

Jan 22, 2014, 6:41 PM

Judging Israel in a broken world

We live in a world whose state may be described as being broken. Broken by the continuous violence perpetrated by mankind since the beginning of recorded history. Violence perpetrated by man against man, and by man against the earth...

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About Me

Ran Zev Schijanovich was born in Israel in 1970 to an Argentinian father and American mother, lived in Argentina through age 11, and then moved to New York. He made aliyah in 2005 and served as a combat soldier in Golani from the ages of 36 to 38. Ran is graduate of the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.