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What exactly are you saying?

A few years back, when I was looking to rent an apartment in Jerusalem, I learned how to decode the real estate agent’s definitions. “Savir,” decent, basically meant...

Why a black artist replaced the national anthem

Last week in Denver, almost all the values of the post-1960s left were exhibited in one act. It happened on the Denver mayor’s most important day — the one in...

The four – no, three – elements

Thanks to all those who’ve participated in our first poll: ‘Do you keep kosher?’ The poll is still open, but so far the ‘yes’ column is a...

July 4 — obviousities

Hail the Fourth of July, when barbecue picnics scent the sultry midsummer air, when rainbows of fiery light illuminate the balmy night, when Old Glory flutters from many...

A green world, an oil world — both

It need not be, and it should not be, a zero sum game, but the way environmentalism is pushed today, it is a zero-sum game. The same is true for […]

Journalists in Washington, DC

Are things back to normal in New Orleans? “If you’re asking this, you obviously haven’t been to New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina.” So said Gail Chalew of New...

Everyone has a story to tell

Last year my mother turned 80, and we celebrated with a family trip to Montana. The gift she cherished most was not the picture frame we had engraved or even […]

God vs. man

In his comment on our latest post, Ben M posited that without God, Judaism cannot survive. That is undoubtedly true. But are there various ways in which to reach God,...

Marsha Gardenswartz, 1953-2008

The boundaries of birth and death allow no argument, only choices. Do we live as insubstantial shadows, or mountains rising high? Marsha Gardenswartz, so petite,...

‘Lawrence of Arabia’ and Aaron Aaronsohn: glorious triumph, bitter defeat

The perfectly hopeless vulgarity of the half-Europeanized Arab is appalling. Better a thousand times the Arab untouched. The foreigners come out here always to teach,...