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Checking references

Dear Tzviling, My cousin sent me a number of your columns discussing shidduchim (matchmaking). In particular, the column dated Oct. 23, 2009, raises a vital issue when...

Better than chicken soup

WITH the comforting warm hues of burnt oranges, reds and golds glowing all around and tucking us deeper and deeper into the indoors, there is a comforting sort of...

Why I will never give a penny to NPR

IF you think I am upset with National Public Radio because of the way it covers Israel, you are wrong. Because the way it covers Israel, it covers the rest […]

Political correctness taken too far

THIS week I experienced an eerie sense of deja vu. As the reports began coming in from Fort Hood Texas, something felt hauntingly familiar. It was those pictures. It was...

Hasan’s motives

ONE reads and hears with increasing disbelief and anger that we don’t know the motive or motives of Nidal Malik Hasan, the Army major who fired over 100 shots at...

From generation to generation

WHAT does a great-grandparent know of his great-grandchild born the day after he dies? What does a child, told that his looks or mannerisms resemble the grandparent he...

What is the secret to happiness?

Dear Tzviling, I recently came back from my first trip to Israel. It was truly fascinating, especially the time I spent in Safed (Tzfat). In Tzfat I noticed that...

The baseball-hostility phase

I KNOW. I know. They are despised by all of us official non-New Yorkers. But I gotta tell ya, if you are in New York now, loyal fan or not, […]

Night workers

In Jerusalem, their eyes, their bodies, their lives tell you nothing. Some are bound up with the military or political establishment, while others are disengaged from...

Is there an doctor in the house?

THE current debate over health care reform is more than a bit disconcerting. The constant barrage of media coverage and political mud-slinging has given me chronic...