96 Gantz: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice – or Jiminy Crickett (Bibi’s conscience)? View this email in your browser The Jerusalem Post 01/04/2020 Gantz: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice – or Jiminy Crickett (Bibi’s conscience)? Benny Gantz – the Sorcerer’s Apprentice I get it. Benny Gantz’s surrender to Benjamin Netanyahu is a terrible disappointment to those of […]
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To My Son, Enlisting as a Coronoa-Clouded Soldier
96 To My Son, Enlisting as a Coronoa-Clouded Soldier View this email in your browser The Jerusalem Post 25/03/2020 To My Son, Enlisting as a Coronoa-Clouded Soldier Dear A. You’ve reached the long-anticipated day of your enlistment after a most unexpected month. Your “last hurrah” abroad ended with your grandmother’s deathwatch and […]
Remembering my mother with a book, not as a cook
96 Remembering my mother with a book, not as a cook View this email in your browser The Jerusalem Post 05/03/2020 Remembering my mother with a book, not as a cook One day in Champlain Colony, that ramshackle collection of bungalows by the polluted Lake Champlain we considered our summer paradise, my mother […]
Fill the Communal Void While Flattening the Corona-Curve
96 Fill the Communal Void While Flattening the Corona-Curve View this email in your browser The Jerusalem Post 18/03/2020 Fill the Communal Void While Flattening the Corona-Curve Going from mourning your mother for a week in Maryland to a two-week Corona-quarantine in Jerusalem, makes “shiva” – which means 7 – feel like “esrim-ve’echad,” 21-days. The […]
Overdosing on Ahashverosh and Haman – Missing Esthers and Mordechais
96 Overdosing on Ahashverosh and Haman – Missing Esthers and Mordechais View this email in your browser The Jerusalem Post 26/02/2020 Overdosing on Ahashverosh and Haman – Missing Esthers and Mordechais It’s sobering to live in a world overdosing on Ahashveroses and Hamans but missing Esthers and Mordechais. Today, Israel and the United States are […]
Judaism’s Liquidoxy rejects extremes, right and left
96 Judaism’s Liquidoxy rejects extremes, right and left View this email in your browser The Jerusalem Post 19/02/2020 Judaism’s Liquidoxy rejects extremes, right and left Did I get this right? Iranian mullahs threaten to nuke us. Palestinian terrorists threaten to bomb us. The UN and international courts threaten to delegitimize us. And various […]
Are Rabbinical Schools becoming anti-Israel Bullying Pulpits?
In 2011, when Rabbi Daniel Gordis highlighted “how lonely it can be for an unapologetically pro-Israel student at some of today’s rabbinical schools,” his Conservative and Reform colleagues excoriated him for exaggerating. Today, his criticisms seem mild; things are far worse. Every year, I hear from non-Orthodox rabbinical students that, in their programs, the once-marginal […]
Max Singer z”l: Happy Conservative, Optimistic Jew, Fulfilled Zionist
96 Max Singer z”l: Happy Conservative, Optimistic Jew, Fulfilled Zionist View this email in your browser The Jerusalem Post 29/01/2020 Max Singer z”l: Happy Conservative, Optimistic Jew, Fulfilled Zionist Last Thursday, one of Southern Jerusalem’s leading lights, Max Singer, died. This exuberant futurist who flirted with doomsday scenarios in Cold War America […]
75 Years After WWII, Jews Deserve Freedom from Fear Too
Seventy-five years ago, the Red Army liberated Auschwitz, the ghoulish mass-murder-factory that killed as many as 15,000 Jews daily. “We ran up to them and they gave us hugs, cookies, and chocolate,” the late Eva Mozes Kor would recall for the BBC/KCET documentary “Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State.” “Being so alone, a hug meant more […]
Tzohar Rabbis: Happy, Halachic, and in love with the Jewish People
Sephardi chief rabbi Yitzhak Yosef’s branding of Russian immigrants as “religion-hating gentiles” has fueled cries for a rabbinate filled with peoplehood-loving Jews. So many of us are desperate for change. Change comes from the bottom-up or from top-down. People love sitting around, doing nothing but grumbling about the leadership failures empowering the chief rabbinate to […]