I was very interested in learning how Prof. Yigal Schwartz sees the
current Israeli phase of our people’s perpetual encounter with the
concept of normalcy (Haaretz Magazine Jan 1 08). I also appreciate his
documentation of one literary form that publicly expresses and manifests
our abnormal behavior!**
This obsession we have with being normal is I believe, one of our [...]
According to the Jerusalem Post reporter Jonny Paul, the 60th anniversary film festival of the British Council in Israel will be headed by Judy Price a fierce critic of Israel. It appears that the British Council in Israel has the chutzpa to use Ms. Price as their token self-hating Jew to provide their smug and [...]
Oh Well, once again we are going to a conference in America in order to try and solve the conflict while our enemy refuses to recognize our legitimate right to exist as a Jewish State. The Palestinian leadership still chokes at the thought that they must live next to a crazy group of highly motivated [...]
We all need to find our voice and share it with all who will listen. I have been reading and listening to a variety of commentaries about the future of my home, Israel. They all take on the different flavor of the moment and form a diverse group of special interests with wide ranging agendas.
I [...]
We are entering the year 5768 on the Jewish calendar. The past year has been another troubled and disturbing period in human history. In the Jewish world topics of importance seems to have been Israel, assimilation, anti-Semitism, Iraq war and Iran.
In Israel major concerns have been Palestinian Terror, Peace, Iran, Syria, Hezbollah, Hamas and the [...]
As I read the local newspapers and their on-line cousins I watch my emotions having a picnic with the inflammatory speculations by columnists about the future of Israel. This endless debate presses such political hot buttons that I wonder why there is such a need to take on the Jews in this way. Then again [...]