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Nov 3, 2026, 2:03 PM

Week 3 Of Teaching In Laquia: School Trips

Children playing in the water (Courtesy)

Last week, during my Hebrew lessons at the junior high school in Laqiya, we talked about the election. At the time, I could not even begin to imagine that the parents of my students, along with their entire families,...

Bernard P. Markowicz

Nov 1, 2026, 4:31 AM

19 Seats, One Country

Rahat, northern Negev. AI-generated illustration by the author (ChatGPT).

Israel's Arab citizens voted in record numbers. Whoever governs, their 19 seats can help pass laws that benefit Jews and Arabs alike. Israel’s Arab citizens have just sent a message the country should not ignore. In last week’s election, the...

Oct 27, 2026, 4:23 PM

My Second Week Of Teaching Hebrew In Laqiya: Elections

Teaching material

Since we teach at the junior high school in Laqiya on Mondays, our lesson this week took place yesterday, the day before the general election. Since we have no common language, either literally or symbolically, it is hard to...

Oct 21, 2026, 8:03 PM

The First Week of Teaching Hebrew In Laquia

Inside the school

Since the orientation meeting at the school in Laqiya, I had been apprehensive about my upcoming assignment to speak Hebrew with students in 7th and 8th grades once a week. During the previous week, I kept thinking about ways...

Oct 12, 2026, 11:01 PM

Speaking Hebrew in Laquia

The school in Laquia. (courtesy)

There is still much to be done in Israel, and this year I decided to take part in a new project: volunteering to teach Hebrew and speak with students at a junior high school in the Bedouin town of...

Aug 14, 2026, 6:20 PM

The Non Apartheid State of Israel

Celebrating the Jewish Ethiopian Sigd holiday in Jerusalem. Photo, (c) T. Book, 2026

To call Israel an apartheid state is absurd as saying that there are equal rights to all peoples in any of the countries surrounding Israel. To call Israel an apartheid state is in the words of Colonel Richard Kemp: Not...

Aug 10, 2026, 7:57 AM

Normalization from the Saudi Perspective: Part II

Crown Prince Abdullah and Kissinger's realpolitik miscalculation During my tenure as an American defense contractor working in support of the Saudi Air Force, I found myself in a detailed conversation with Dr. Henry Kissinger. The region was transitioning through a...

Jul 30, 2026, 1:08 AM

How Did We Get Here?

The massacre of October 7th and the ensuing wars that have exploded around the Middle East as a response, have brought to the surface a deep chasm that has been brewing within Israeli society for some years now. They...

Charlotte Mendel

Jul 22, 2026, 8:52 PM

Are you a black and white thinker? A protective presence shift

Images by Charlotte Mendel

The photo shows left-wing protesters demonstrating outside a conference held by Haaretz in London and extremist settlers who have broken into Husni's compound–my Bedouin host where I sleep when I'm in the West Bank. They are insisting an Arab...

Jul 22, 2026, 8:42 PM

A Meditation Before Laying Tefillin On Tisha B’Av

I believe that it has been close to twenty years that I lead a Tisha B’Av pilgrimage reading passages of Lamentations where either Jews or non-Jews have suffered khurban (destruction) in our day, or are in danger of khurban....

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