Steven Greenberg, at The Blogs

Feb 27, 2024, 3:33 PM

No More Westplaining – It’s Time to Take Palestinians at Their Words

As a parent, I recall my frustration when my toddlers made unintelligible sounds and I struggled to guess what they wanted. Yet they inevitably learned to form words. So, if they wanted water, they could say “water.” And I...

Feb 4, 2024, 8:56 AM

The morning it rained terror

“Dad! There’s rain! I’m scared!” The phone call from my 18-year-old daughter woke me up at 6:30AM Saturday morning. Just a month or so into combat basic training at a large base right on the border with Gaza, she was...

Nov 27, 2023, 11:09 AM

The Banality of Silence

Not condemning the sexual violence of October 7 is condoning it. Full stop. I’m having a rather unproductive, one-sided Facebook conversation with a college friend who’s a fellow Hannah Arendt fan...thus the headline. She’s got a special connection to the Middle...

Jul 7, 2023, 1:39 PM

‘No’ doesn’t work for cookies; why would it for regime change?

What did the Cottage Cheese Protests and Occupy Wall Street have in common? They were all about “no’…and spawned NO change. I’m a work-from-home single dad for three now-adult kids. One thing I learned in 20+ years of parenting is...

Apr 19, 2023, 6:51 PM

Yair Lapid, Attend the Independence Day Ceremony!

A perceived public insult to a national symbol will not serve you well in the next election Dear MK Lapid, As a new member of the Yesh Atid party and a long-time supporter, I urge you to change your mind about...

Apr 3, 2023, 10:35 PM

I’m 100% Against – But We Gotta Talk about Blocking Roads

Effective civil disobedience is not wreaking havoc until something changes. Chaos serves no one – least of all us. Every Thursday and Saturday, and sometimes in-between, I’m out demonstrating. I financially support and am completely on-board with the strategy and...

Mar 14, 2023, 3:00 PM

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Simcha Rothman: Making liberal dreams come true?

The MK and his allies should bear in mind that the checks and balances they aim to erase protect their core values, too

Jan 29, 2023, 9:55 AM

To ‘rabbihg’: The economic snowball is already rolling

To the bravely anonymous lady or gentleman with the TOI handle “rabbihg”: Thank you for your insightful comments on my recent blog post, which included – among other memorable pearls -- “You and your friends will take your money and...

Jan 26, 2023, 7:58 PM

Pay for Your Own F–king Dictatorship

To: His Eminence, King of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu From: A Humble High Tech Slave Dear Sire, Ideological debates are messy. By your leave, let’s leave ideology out of it for a minute. Democracy, theocracy, autocracy, dictatorship? Who cares? Let LGBTQs live their...

Dec 30, 2022, 11:40 AM

10 confessions of a left-leaning traitor

To Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, Minister Bezalel Smotrich, and MK Avi Maoz: I, Steven Greenberg, make this confession of my own free will, under no duress. I hereby admit and attest that: 33 years ago, I chose to make aliyah...

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Steven Greenberg is an award-winning novelist (see https://amzn.to/3oJLA8g) , a professional writer (see http://sdg.co.il), and a full-time cook, cleaner, chauffeur and single dad for three young adults (see his dishpan hands). Born in Texas, Steven grew up in Indiana and emigrated to Israel just months before the first Gulf War in 1990. He's a former combat medic in the Israel Defense Forces, who never learned to properly salute despite his rank of Sergeant. And he's a career marketer, who's run a home-grown marketing boutique since 2002.

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