How fast the earth spins! How quickly children grow! How furiously the cold wind blows during this chilly and dark month of Kislev. In other words, it’s time to ramp up my annual what-I-want-the-Hanukkah-Man-to-Bring-Me list. Newsflash. There…
Category: Other
-
The Eight Nights of Hanukkah, Dateline 5786
-
When We Look Away from the Victim: A Prosecutor’s Trial and the World’s Memory
My last trial as a prosecutor in the Family Violence Bureau has stayed with me like a shadow. The defendant faced charges of aggravated assault—domestic violence through strangulation. Anyone who has handled one of these cases knows what I knew…
Continue Reading
-
Publicizing the Miracle, Illuminating Our Future
On the first night of Chanukah, millions of Jews around the world draw back their curtains and place a menorah on their windowsill for all to see. Passersby witness this quiet yet powerful broadcast of faith and hope—an expression woven deeply…
Continue Reading
-
At Hanukkah, We Cannot Let Our Elders Sit In Darkness
This Hanukkah, We Cannot Let Our Elders Sit In Darkness Alone Hanukkah always brings me home. Not physically — but emotionally. It’s the holiday that weaves together memory, family, ritual, and the quiet reassurance of sitting together around…
Continue Reading
-
This is how I see Free Will
My reactions to the newest Thoughts to Ponder by Rabbi Cardozo My friend and teacher sent around important words on Volition. My take is different from everyone’s. Read his post to know what I’m reacting to. Only philosophers see a paradox…
Continue Reading
-
Into the Fray: Strange Bedfellows in Hate: From Carlson to the Caucasus
Why are my tax dollars being used to murder Christians in Nagorno-Karabakh – to murder Armenian Christians? – Tucker Carlson, November 8, 2025 One of the issues causing grave concern for the future of the GOP is the troubling rise of antisemitism…
Continue Reading
-
When the Noise Runs Out
When relief becomes a trap for Israel What happens when the rockets stop, not because hearts have changed, but because the last one dies mid-air like a joke that cannot find its own ending? Imagine Hamas “surrenders” tomorrow, not from…
Continue Reading
-
Remembering Marrakesh
Years ago, I visited Marrakesh, a city in Morocco on the edge of the great Sahara Desert. I found it picturesque and exotic, a pleasant tourist destination of narrow cobblestone streets, gated residential homes, sandstone fortresses, and a…
Continue Reading
-
The Cry Outside My Window
Author’s note: This piece was written in the diaspora, not in Israel. The “noise outside my window” refers not to rockets or sirens, but to the chants, slogans, and public atmosphere many Jews are encountering far from the front lines. It…
Continue Reading
-
The Haredi challenge and the future of Israel
On Thursday 30 October, hundreds of thousands of Ultra-Orthodox Jews flooded Jerusalem’s streets in a “March of the Million,” protesting against efforts to end their conscription exemptions and shouting slogans against the secular state….
Continue Reading