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Sep 29, 2024, 11:59 AM

Over 8,000 Invisible Hezbollah Rockets Fired Toward Israel?

Not exactly, it’s just that the press too often neglects to mention that Hezbollah has almost daily fired rockets at Israel ever since 10/8/2024. 8,000 missiles can’t be an oversight. What is it? You be the judge. Can you...

Aug 22, 2024, 10:49 PM

From my distant little trench!

I was born in Guatemala in 1956, 12 years after six million Jews were murdered in Europe, 11 years after World War II ended, and six years after the State of Israel declared its independence and fought its first...

Jul 30, 2024, 10:50 AM

There will always be terrorists…

Unspoken terror: photo by Shoshana Lavan

...our job is to give them what they don't want! The year is 2030. After the war ended, the international community put great pressure on the State of Israel to agree to creating a Palestinian State. Palestine has now been...

Jul 2, 2024, 8:26 PM

Three Inter-Locking Liberal Imperatives for Israel

Three Interlocking Imperatives for a Better Shared Future

Liberals committed to shaping Israel’s future as envisaged in the Declaration of Independence must urgently reclaim the meaning and purpose of Zionism. Liberally minded Diaspora Jewry everywhere must raise its voice boldly but with humility, appreciating the need to better...

May 10, 2024, 10:16 AM

Parashat Kedoshim and Yom Haatzmaut

This Shabbat we read Parashat Kedoshim and on Monday night and Tuesday we will be celebrating Yom Haatzmaut, the anniversary of Israel’s Declaration of Independence. Is there a connection between the two? I believe the answer may be found in...

May 8, 2024, 12:21 PM

Celebrating Independence Day with Higher Education

Israel's Declaration of Independence has something for everyone. With my own focus on social impact, I'm intrigued by its call on the country's minority populations to "participate in the upbuilding of the State." Have they? Better yet: Have they...

May 5, 2024, 5:25 PM

This is what I understand:

Hamas has asked for guarantees that the war will end. Hamas does not really take stock in those guarantees; more than them, Hamas wants to hear the words from Binyamin Netanyahu: the war has come to end! This is...

Apr 7, 2024, 11:46 AM

Solar Eclipse: To Bless or Not to Bless

This coming Monday, April 8, there will be a full solar eclipse visible to everyone in North America, not to occur again until 2044. For those of us in the New York area, it will appear as a partial...

Mar 5, 2024, 8:05 AM

Israel is NOT the result of European imperialism

David Ben-Gurion delivering Israel's declaration of independence (Times of Israel).

While throughout the world, the headlines about Israel focus on the war in Gaza, after the war is over, the critics of Israel will remain. The favorite chant of Israel's critics these days is "From the river to the...

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Jan 26, 2024, 8:27 PM

The intellectual fall of Nassim Nicholas Taleb and the explosion of ‘sincerity’

The massacre committed by Hamas on October 7, 2023, caused many masks to fall, including the masks of public personalities who seemed to be solid thinkers or meritorious academics. That day the floodgates of “sincerity” opened, putting several intellectual...

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