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Alissa Burstein

Jun 29, 2025, 4:28 PM

On Paper It Was the Perfect Vacation

Business class flight. Fully equipped duplex apartment with view and Netflix. Fresh fish and olives. Endless shopping. Museums. Cruise ship home. Or not. What began as a simple five-day getaway to Athens in sunny June turned into the most challenging experience...

Reuven Chaim Klein

May 10, 2025, 10:31 PM

Roses are Red – shoshanah, chavatzelet, vered

On the 9th of Iyyar in the year 2017, my grandmother Rose (Roszi) Klein passed away. She was born in 1928 in the Hungarian town of Bonyhad to Meir and Devorah Kuttner. After surviving the horrors of the Holocaust and...

Apr 1, 2025, 3:03 PM

A Tale of Two Ports: Colombo and Thessaloniki

During recent separate meetings with Indian and Sri Lankan foreign policy experts in Washington, DC, two geographically distant ports – Colombo, Sri Lanka, and Thessaloniki, Greece – were emphasized. Independently and together, they serve as strategic junctions in the...

Mar 10, 2025, 7:19 AM

Israel’s Playbook for Dealing with Turkey

Dr. Dan Schueftan, a respected authority on Middle Eastern geopolitics, once said: “In the Middle East, there are no solutions. Maybe, if you work very hard, over a long period of time, and if you are lucky, you can replace...

Nov 10, 2024, 12:51 AM

Israel to Mars: Investments, Innovators, Alliances

Designed in Israel, Made by Earth, Deployed on Mars - by Frederic Eger - Israel's involvement in Mars exploration and colonization is influenced by strategic alliances, technological capabilities, and ongoing involvement in space initiatives, particularly through NASA's Artemis program....

Sep 18, 2024, 5:19 PM

Israel, Cyprus mark painful anniversaries at joint event

A montage of photos on display during a Sept. 17 reception at the Tel Aviv Hilton commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Turkish invasion and ongoing occupation of Cyprus. (Photo by Larry Luxner)

Tuesday night’s gala reception at the Tel Aviv Hilton was billed as a joyous occasion to mark 64 years of Cypriot independence from Great Britain. Overshadowing the Sept. 17 gathering, however, were two sad reminders of ongoing strife: the upcoming...

Aug 25, 2024, 5:09 AM

Scenes from the massacres

Detail, Scenes from the Massacres at Chios, Eugène Delacroix, 1824. Public domain.

Delacroix's painting depicts as much brutality as Western art dares, but the real-life graphic images from October 7 are too much for us to bear

Jul 26, 2024, 12:06 AM

Samson and Hercules

The story of Samson in the biblical book Judges raises many questions. Scholars have given many answers to these questions but do not satisfy all of their readers. Why is Samson’s story included in the Bible? What did he do...

Jun 18, 2024, 9:00 PM

Netanyahu and the Siege of Samos

On the evening of June 13, a smiling Benyamin Netanyahu was photographed holding a copy of the Penguin edition of Plutarch, The Rise and Fall of Athens, as the Knesset passed the first reading of a bill designed to...

Jun 10, 2024, 1:50 PM

Still dreaming…

'Still Dreaming...' - Luca M Damiani - Kiss and Arrow 2024 - www.lucadamiani-art.com

The European elections have just ended, and there it goes, a big political shift. There it goes, the quiet majority getting fed up. There it goes, the people have spoken up. "We pushed it too far, with our liberal directions..." - she...

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