Sivan 20, 5768, 6/23/2008 Komokarzy the First visits Israeli Knesicircus Komokarzy the First today blasted his way into the Israeli Knesicircus, taking center ring. It wasn’t clear to the viewers if the visitor was appearing as a clown or a suicide bomber, and they had trouble deciding whether to laugh or cry. Actually Komokarzy confided to the Prime Monster of […]
Read moreSivan 19, 5768, 6/22/2008 Reaction:The Two Israels-Nicholas D. Kristof in NYTimes Nicholas D. Kristof called me a few days ago and we spoke for a while on the phone. Obviously he visited Hebron, but did not see fit to interview me at the time, preferring a phone conversation. That fact, in and of itself, is unfortunate, for had he spent […]
Read moreIt is a Very, Very Good Land Published: Sunday, June 22, 2008 11:55 PM Spies, spies and more spies. We just read the Torah story of the twelve spies, ten of whom slandered Eretz Yisrael, preferring to remain in the desert rather than continue on to the holy land promised to Avraham, Yitzhak and Ya’akov, as well as to the rest […]
Read moreSivan 10, 5768, 6/13/2008 Belated Hebron Day Wishes If there was light in Hebron, there was light in Jerusalem.As printed in this week’s Jewish Press: Last week we celebrated not only Yom Yerushalayim, Jerusalem Day. We also marked the return to Hebron, 41 years ago, during the 1967 Six Day War. It’s no coincidence that these two festive days come […]
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