Remembering Holocaust: the first British shots of WW II

The subject of the Holocaust is, frankly, too big for me to handle. There are people who made it their life study, there still are some surv...

The potential economic impact of Haredi men in the workforce

This article is a follow-up to one in which Naftali Bennett announced the publication o a Bill on military service for the Haredi. Unfortun...

"Very interesting" as they used to say on the Rowan & Martin Laugh-In

With apologies to readers far too young (most of you) to remember the "Laugh-In" show (it must have aired some 40+ years ago - I w...

A treat for the secular(ish)

This is to go with that long article/interview with Rabbi Dov Lipman of Yesh Atid and the video of Yair Lapid at the orthodox college (whic...

Netanyahu’s political cynicism will backfire?

Much of what Isi Leibler says in his article (I stole the headline from him, adding a question mark) is true, aside of his prediction: ther...

Yesh Atid MK offers hope for the future. I hope.

I hope you feel you have the time to read the following very long article from the Times of Israel. It's an interview with Rabbi Dov Lip...

Mel Brooks thought of it first!

The Times of Israel has an article claiming that a group of Israelis are seriously contemplating a moon shot. With a real rocket! Now, thre...

Will "The Gatekeeper" get an Oscar? Judith Butler thinks it should

Judith Miller, in The Tablet, has a fascinating article on two films up for Oscars: "Zero Dark Thirty" and "The Gatekeepers...

Blessed are those who believe

No, that's not about what you think it is. It's about that CNN headline: Sperm smuggling alleged at terror prison Al-Ziben says she ...

The new municipal service in Tel Aviv

As one who had a few opportunities to suffer from Tel Aviv parking problem, I have to applaud the new initiative: Details . One observant co...

UN Human Rights Council threatens Israel with unspecified "action"

The UN HRC is due to carry out an "inspection" of Israel's human rights next week (the one commencing 4 February). Israel has...

Good news from Germany(!?), bad news from elsewhere (so, what's new??)

"Germany has an “everlasting responsibility for the crimes of National Socialism, for the victims of World War II and, above all, for t...

Israeli elections day summary

Here it goes: Weather: cloudless, 26 degrees (C), dry. What else: not a lot...

"Da'am Israelis": bad pun warning, for English speakers

"Agbaria-Zahalka...could not disagree with [Haneen Zoabi] more. “We will not go together with the Muslim Brotherhood like she did on th...

The phantoms of ceasefire, proportionality and other Middle East myths - Part II

Farmer Jones and farmer Smith, or Parable of Proportionality . Wild West circa 18.. It was a warm and sunny April morning. Farmer Jones was ...

Hamas hammered like Hezbollah in 2006

We know, because he told us so (although not in so many words), that Hezbollah's leader, Nasrallah, would not have given Israel a causus...

So, what do we mean by proportional? Not what the anti-Zionists mean, for sure.

There's this website that's new to me, courtesy of the Elder of Ziyon , and he has the link to the site. There you will find this h...

The politics of petulance or march of the morons?

Watching (from afar, I haste to add) the primary elections in Likud, I haven't been able to get rid of a rising sense of unease. The fac...

The phantoms of ceasefire, proportionality and other Middle East myths - Part I

As usual, every flare-up of local conflict causes the usual buzzwords applied to it to be taken out of the drawer, dusted and presented via ...

Let's hear it for the cheese-mongers! (Bad "Life of Brian" joke)

Here's one for all you hawks out there (and when it comes to Israel, I'm a hawk, whatever anyone might want to believe otherwise abo...