Only in Israel could someone take a beautiful natural specimen, the butterfly, and turn it into a...
Month: May 2011
Today, George Mitchell resigned as Obama administration special envoy for Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations. It’s not exactly a...
Ehud Barak, like the Titanic in 1913, gave this second act in his political career a magnificent...
Spencer Tunick has set his sights on organizing another one of his mass nude photo shoots, this...
The Bible asks rhetorically whether a leopard can change its spots. Maybe not. But people and political...
I wrote here that Larry Derfner, a columnist for the Jerusalem Post and I were launching a...
Cong. Jim McDermott, who represents me in the U.S. Congress and is one of the few truly...
Woody Guthrie memorably wrote that “some rob you with a six-gun and some with a fountain pen.”...
Larry Derfner and I are about to embark on a new blog (not replacing Tikun Olam in...
The Yom Kippur liturgy talks about the two goats which marked the Yom Kippur holiday in ancient...
This is a talk I delivered at the Confronting Islamophobia: I am My Brother’s Keeper conference on...
OK, Meirke. We get the message. Former Mossad director, Meir Dagan, who was unceremoniously booted from his...





