Saturday, April 03, 2010

This Blog Has a New Home

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After more than five years on Blogger, I decided to try a new blogging platform and moved the blog to Wordpress. The new blog address ...
Friday, April 02, 2010

Shabbat Pessach – The Dry Bones

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לכן הנבא ואמרת אליהם… הנה אני פותח את קברותיכם והעליתי אתכם מקברותיכם עמי, והבאתי אתכם אל אדמת ישראל (יחזקאל לז, יב) On both shabbatot o...
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Sunday, March 28, 2010

An Impossible Choice

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On Friday, two IDF soldiers died in a fire exchange with Palestinian terrorists in the Gaza strip. One of them was Major Eliraz Peretz z”l...
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Monday, March 15, 2010

43 Minutes

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Does the Obama administration understand the complexities of the Middle East? This question rises again to the fore following the current ...
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Friday, March 05, 2010

Ki Tissa - Holiness in Stones

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ויהי כאשר קרב אל המחנה וירא את העגל ומחולות, ויחר אף משה וישלך מידיו את הלוחות וישבר אותם תחת ההר (שמות לב, יט) The story of the exodus ...
Tuesday, March 02, 2010

Brave New World

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I’ve been holding back on getting a Kindle for the last year or so. I wasn’t sure the technology was there yet and I was afraid to be disapp...
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Friday, February 19, 2010

Israeli Tennis Players in Dubai

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Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Hard to Believe

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I am still reeling from the news about the alleged sexual misconduct of R. Motti Elon. The news broke last night and there are still more q...
Sunday, February 14, 2010

Mishpatim - Justice or Compromise?

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ואלה המשפטים אשר תשים לפניהם (שמות כא, א) A few years ago, while building our new house, we had a disagreement with one of the contracto...
Wednesday, February 10, 2010

A Two-Pronged Threat

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The ultra-orthodox religious Jews in Israel are posing a serious demographic challenge to Israeli society. In my Israeli Society in 2030 blo...
Tuesday, February 09, 2010

Meryl Weep

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I’ve written before about how Meryl Streep is quite possibly the most overrated actress on the planet . So you can imagine the pleasure with...
Monday, February 08, 2010

The Green Future

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It’s funny now, but there is truth behind every joke. Thirty years ago people made fun of the restrictions placed on smokers; now, smokers a...
Friday, February 05, 2010

הרמב”ם, משה הלברטל

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You know the famous hypothetical question: “if you could meet 3 people from history, who would they be”? Well, in my case – when the questio...
Wednesday, January 27, 2010

The Fall (cont.)

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A year and a half ago I wrote about the fall of miss USA in a beauty pageant as symbolising the decline of the United States. This post c...