There are a number of figures who played major roles in the pre-State era who have unjustly faded into oblivion. Jacob De Haan is one of these. He packed more life into his short 43 years than others could pack in several lifetimes. He was a teacher, poet, journalist, lawyer and a close confidant of […]
Covid19 and the Abuse of the Holocaust and Anti-Semitism
COMMENTING NOTE: Because of a technical issue with a plugin update which caused the admin portion of the site to crash, my web host had to revert to a previous version of the installation. This caused some of the comment settings to deactivate and commenting was unavailable for the past week. My apologies. And thanks […]
Israeli Rabbi Secretly Records Embarrassing Tape of Gantz Election Advisor
Though the incident which is the subject of this post is garden variety dirty tricks in the context of a typical Netanyahu election campaign, there are some larger issues of religious ethics which have important political implications. Benny Gantz’s chief campaign consultant, Issac Bechar, asked for counseling from his rabbi, Guy Havura, about a personal […]
Trump as Messiah
The magic number is 424. If you bet on Lotto put your money on it. It’s a sure thing. That’s because Donald Trump’s Rosencrantz and Gildenstern, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, during a private dinner (at 1 hour, 12 minutes in the video), bear the Good News to the president. A rabbi has calculated the […]
