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Nov 13, 2019, 2:48 PM

The Doublethink Newspeak Game

For those who may not have read George Orwell's absolutely excellent and highly recommended book, 1984, doublethink is a key tool to retaining the totalitarian rule of the Party, personified by Big Brother, in Orwell's fictional country, Oceania. The...

Nov 3, 2017, 7:16 AM

A Guide for the Very Perplexed

Amidst news that the UN is getting ready to fund a massive lawfare campaign against Israel paid for with American tax money, among other sources, we received a fundraiser letter from the Habonim Dror Foundation. For those who may not be familiar,...

Oct 17, 2015, 8:48 AM

It’s like deja-vu all over again

There are layers of horror in what we’ve been witnessing over the past few weeks. There is horror in seeing a kid, a young man, a woman, morph into a sort of murderous zombie that picks up a knife...

Oct 10, 2015, 9:44 PM

Monsters in the Streets

Over the past few days, I’ve had a series of phone calls with my family … one urging my daughter, who volunteered into the IDF as a lone soldier, and who is now studying in Herzliya, to get mace...

Mar 7, 2015, 2:48 AM

Let’s NOT Play it Again, Sam

March 6, 2015 -- It completely astounds me that the American people would even contemplate giving a pass to the kind of nuclear deal with Iran that is currently being cobbled together – particularly given two key factors. The first is the...

Oct 24, 2014, 9:22 AM

The Silence of the Lambs

I heard about the terrorist murder of three-month-old Chaya Zissel Braun, Z"L, late last night U.S. time. My husband's cry as he read the news alerted me that something which should never, never happen at all had just happened --...

Sep 14, 2014, 5:32 PM

A Night at the Opera

This October, New York City’s Metropolitan Opera House will present “The Death of Klinghoffer”. Since it was first performed, the piece has engendered a great deal of controversy and caused, I have no doubt, tremendous pain. In 1985, hijackers from Yasser Arafat's...

Aug 24, 2014, 7:30 PM

Daniel Tragerman, Z”L

There is something absolutely horrifying about having to add those two letters, Z"L, after the name of a four year old child. A beautiful child. As I posted his memorial picture, I saw how his determined face and little...

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A prodigal daughter -- born in Israel, raised in the U.S. and lived there on both coasts with lots of visits (even a few residential stays) to Israel, but just returned for good in 2019. Entrepreneurial generalist -- worked for others, built my own medical reporting business (with NO seed money), and since have had an extended career in the U.S. biotech industry in early startups through late clinical stage firms, holding positions in everything from investor relations and corporate communications to business development to facilities management (my current post). Longtime editor, particularly on foreign policy topics. Author of the book, LambBunny and His Friends. Blogger for The Times of Israel.

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