Goodbye 2020. Welcome 2021!
Dear 2020, Here we are at the eve of your departure. I have to admit that I’m thrilled to see you go. But I wouldn’t want you to fade into oblivion before reminding us both of the remarkable […]
Category Archives: Israel
COVID is Ripping Israel Apart
When COVID-19 reached Israel last March, I was not unduly worried. Fifty years of firsthand experience with Israeli resilience and mutual cooperation, through wars, recessions, exploding buses and deep political turmoil, made me believe we would sail through […]
The Rebellion of Israel’s Haredim
In mid-January 2020, when Israelis first became dimly aware of a mysterious new virus coming from far-off China, most of our attention was focused closer to home. Although we empathized, we were more concerned about the inability of […]
This Year, a Meaningful Pesach (Passover)
My Dear Friends, I’m writing to you from Jerusalem where soon our eternal Capital, our undivided city, will be divided into lock-down zones. Many of you will also be separated from your loved ones. Too many of you […]
The Social Distancing Has to Stop
Haredim have been social distancing since Israel was founded, refusing to take part in the social, cultural and educational life of the rest of the country, isolating into separate communities with their own institutions and own way of […]
Another YouTube Video – Antisemitism
Well I am happy to bring you a new YouTube in which I answer some of your questions and also bring to your attention the vile and disgusting Leftist Fascist campaign against University of Massachusetts at Amherst student […]
Let Me Answer Your Questions
Friends, I’m preparing another YouTube video for my channel and would like to give all of you, my friends and readers, the opportunity to ask me anything, anything at all, you want to about my books (old, new […]
My New YouTube Channel
Dear Friends, I’m happy to share this link to my YouTube video (my first!) answering some readers’ questions about my latest book, An Unorthodox Match. I hope you’ll check it out! It’s at https://youtu.be/opOAQyriEmg If you enjoy the video, […]
Mike Pompeo Was Right
When my daughter Bracha decided to sell her apartment in Modi’in, a small city between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, and move to a spacious corner house in Elkana, one of the first settlements over the so-called Green Line, […]