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.

On Becoming a Prophet

We certainly live in dangerous and uncertain times. There is no question that previous certainties in life and society, that we once took for granted and assumed would always be part of our daily existence, have now been called into great question and clouded with doubt.

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.

No News

news is really not news, but it is a great deal of opinion, bias, and bitterness that brings divisiveness amongst the listeners whom it is meant to serve.

The Anti-hero

An Addiction Cured

Common Sence

FORTUNE AND EQUALITY

The Palestinian Refugees

Looking Back, Looking Ahead

Ups And Downs

EUROPE IS GONE

Loose Change

Jews At Prayer – Some Reflections

This One Feels Different

A Stiff-Necked People

Fecklessness And Unwisdom

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.