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Continuing in the footsteps of the first extremist

OK. This time of the year, leading up to Rosh HaShana, the Jewish New Year, and then climaxing with...

Uman, Uman, Uman

It’s that time of year again when everyone seems to be rushing to buy plane tickets to celebrate Rosh...

Anger Is Not Enough (spit)

Enough! (spit) Enough anger, enough cursing out, and enough blaming others for 'the situation'. Yes,...

Abbas Isn't Negotiating for Peace

Being a pragmatist I know that the world is against us. Yesterday I was interviewed by the NPR radio,...

Will Hurricane Earl be a guest in the the White House?

I am a meteorologist and forecast as part of my profession. We look at computer data to forecast the...

Balancing a Healthy Torah Diet

I remember from my elementary school health class a poster on the wall of the food pyramid. It outlined...

Violate Shabbat or Get Divorced?

The "Ask the Rabbi" section of the Bet El Yeshiva's Hebrew website has become the premier venue for secular...

Poetry Submission: Clocks click by Gutman Locks

Clocks click by G. Locks Clocks click Time slides Brains hide Memory hushes Skin dries Hair falls...

Is The US Helping or Hindering Peace?

Let's take a different look at the American role in the negotiating of peace between Israel and Arabs:...

Can Abbas give Israel something we already have?

The Palestinian acceptance of Israel's right to Jerusalem, just like their recognition of Israel's...

Abbas and the Kotel - A Study in Nerve Factor

Several Israeli Internet sites are reporting that Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has stated...

Understanding the Vav in the Book of Ruth

Moshe Kempinski There is a simple fact about the book of Ruth that we just read on the holiday of Shavuot...

Democracy's Achillees Heel

Arizona's new law which is intended to block the tsunami of illegal Mexicans entering the southern state...

Instead of the Gas Chambers, She Asked for a Knife

The following Holocaust story originally appeared in Besheva Hebrew Magazine, a sister publication of...

Covert Ops

I know, I know – you didn’t know I was doing covert ops. But you can do it too, if you’re interested....

Obama Cairo Speech and the Tripoli Treaty - Blackmail?

Plus ça change plus c’est la mĕme chose In his speech in Cairo, Egypt, United States President...

The Vast Future

“The struggle of today, is not altogether for today—it is for a vast future also.” — Abraham Lincoln,...