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My generation

Having celebrated my birthday last week (along with my cosmic twin Volodymyr Zelensky and my ancestral twin Robert Burns), I am firmly in middle age. No sugarcoating it.

Stupidity — South Africa’s genocide charge fits perfectly

To be perfectly clear, South Africa, in conflating a story from Samuel and a statement from Deuteronomy, is saying that the two are the same and that the two occurred at...

Is the unity starting to wane?

There is nothing the Jewish people cannot do if they do it from unity. Jews have certainly felt this around the world since Oct. 7. “Together we will win” is the...

Live long and prosper?

Does the thought of a super long life thrill or chill you? Once upon a time, the idea of living to be 100 was extraordinary. Now, while hardly commonplace, it’s...

Minor (lethal) Offenses

“The teenagers had been jailed for minor offenses like throwing stones.” This sentence, penned by the AP when a hostage-prisoner exchange between Hamas and Israel...

Biden administration wants to ‘overhaul’ the Palestinian Authority

The Biden administration wants to “overhaul” the Palestinian Authority so that it can add the Gaza Strip to its rule of the West Bank. How do you overhaul hatred?...

Pierced but unwavering

They ran out of room. The cemetery in Gush Etzion doesn’t have enough space for more graves for soldiers. They need to expand, to dig a new block. “Hutru l’pirsum....

Of course South Africa is fixated on genocide, it loves Hamas

South Africa does not accuse Hamas of genocide. It accuses Israel. This is not an oversight. This is not only hatred of Israel. Not only hypocrisy — a week before the...

The mystery of the 92nd Psalm

One of the enduring mysteries in the book of Psalms is Psalm 92. Its opening verse reads, “A psalm, a song, for the Sabbath day,” followed by 15 more verses. Not a...

Don’t take pro-Israel politicians for granted

Among the many things that have changed as a result of Oct. 7, I would humbly recommend that the Jewish community would do well no longer to identify with a single...