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Mar 25, 2026, 8:02 PM

Operation Epic Fury: Chess, Poker and Game Theory

Applying subjective analysis what we are witnessing in the Persian Gulf war right now is a masterful display of strategy stretching back thousands of years. Utilizing chess and poker strategies and then evaluating them through game theory gives us...

Jan 16, 2026, 6:22 PM

My visit to the Round Square

Walking down Dizengoff Boulevard the other night I found myself in the “Round Square" the Square with the round fountain. The Square was dark, I walked around and around taking in the faces, the notes never read, the soldiers,...

Oct 8, 2023, 8:36 AM

Saturday night, Motzei Shabbat and Chag. Friday, yesterday, we were at each other’s throats. Article after article warning us of the pending fall of the Third Temple. That we are destined to our very own two state nightmare, a theocratic...

Oct 6, 2023, 8:31 PM

From Appalachia to Kawkaba, the Craziest Sukkah I Ever Slept In

Kawkaba Outpost, Southern Lebanon, second week of October 1987. I insisted on sleeping in the Sukkah, my commanders didn’t even bother to say no. Okay Harrison, if you want to die knock yourself out. Everyone else on the outpost slept...

Oct 5, 2023, 8:54 AM

Would you cry? Who would you blame?

Would you cry? Who would you blame? What an awful headline, we would be fools to think that history can’t repeat itself. “The Binding of Yitzhak” is a 2015 documentary that is based on interviews with retired Shin Bet agent Dvir...

Feb 28, 2023, 7:56 AM

The speech that Bibi needed to make but didn’t

I address you tonight not as the leader of Likud and the new right-wing government but as the head of the government of the State of Israel and Am Yisrael. This past November 1st, the Israeli people cast their ballots...

Oct 28, 2022, 6:07 PM

Not shame on Kanye, I say shame on Us

Ye (formally known as Kanye West) has been all over the news of late for his repeated antisemitic comments. On several recent podcasts he used language so toxic that the backlash has extended to far outside our own extensive...

Sep 6, 2022, 10:38 PM

What Munich meant to us

September 5th was the 50th anniversary of the tragedy at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games. I wrote the story “They’re all gone” a number of years ago for the HBO documentary Sport in America: Our defining stories. After it...

Mar 17, 2021, 6:38 AM

George Washington needed the eggs

A man says to the doctor “my brother thinks he’s a chicken.” The Doc asks “how long has this been going on”? The man says “about 20-25 years.” The Doc asks him “why didn’t you bring him sooner?” The...

Aug 17, 2016, 12:57 AM

An Open Letter to the Egyptian Olympic Committee

Mr. Hesham Mohamed Tawfeq Hatab, President Mr. Alaa Gabr, Secretary General Egyptian Olympic Committee Elestade Elbahary Street Nasr City, Bp 2055 Cairo,Egypt Mr. Hesham Mohamed Tawfeq Hatab and Mr. Alaa Gabr, I'm Israeli, I'm also a former coach, an athlete and importantly a father. I want...

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The author is a Jewbilly from Appalachia. Former Lone Soldier and the father to three former Lone Soldiers.

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