Diamonds Are Forever

Choices

As often happens when I sit down to my computer to write this weekly opinion article, I am faced with several choices as to the subject that the article should be.

Richard Branson and The Ultimate Joy Ride

It's easy to think of life as a trip through a treasure-house of experiences. Climbing Everest. Flying around the world in eighty days, or to the edge of space. The truth is that all the pleasures, all the experiences of this world, are given to us for one reason only: that we might sense to the smallest degree, the taste of life itself. But what is life itself if not our experiences in it?

Email

We live in a time when written letters and even typed letters are no longer the main means of communication. Everything today is done by either mobile phone or electronic mail.

Who Really Should Have Won The Israeli Elections

What is to become of our money?

Corona-virus Takeaways – One Man’s Perspective

Ten observations regarding the Coronavirus.

Explaining the Mitzvah of Pidyon Shevuyim

The Commandment of Redeeming Captives

Is savining a child from being raised non-Jewish considered Pidyon shevuyim? Is there a mitzvah of pidyon shevuyim when someone was captured because he was doing something irresponsible or illegal?

Lonely Israel

To the alienated and assimilated Jewish world, Israel is somewhat of an embarrassment. It is too Jewish, too traditional, too conservative, too provincial and parochial for their broad, universal, liberal, hedonistic, pacifist worldview.

Old Magazines

Looking Back at the Arab Spring

The “Arab spring” has turned out to be pretty much of a bust with no real political or economic progress left in its wake. Hundreds of thousands of Arabs have been killed since the “Arab Spring” and almost all of them were killed by their fellow Arabs.

The Messenger And The Message

Shooting the messenger and disregarding the message is the norm here but it is a dangerous and very self-defeating norm.

D - Day Plus 69

D-Day was as much a moral victory over evil as it was a military expedition that succeeded against most formidable odds. It renewed the belief that good can and will overcome evil and that tyranny and hatred eventually always must collapse from the weight of its own iniquities.

The Aftermath

The Greek Connection

It Is Not Going To Go Away

A Fiery Chanukah

Rabbis’ Business

Lag B’omer And The Pope

Unexpected Changes

Elections