When Lies Win Oscars — and Truth Is Silenced (A blunt reflection on how Israel’s truth keeps losing to well-packaged propaganda) Israel, the nation that turned desert into fertile land, that gave the world Waze, Iron Dome, drip irrigation,…
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When Lies Win Oscars — and Truth Is Silenced
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Fighting Islamophobia and Ziophobia
Exposing Genuine Prejudice Behind Political Deception In recent years, we have seen the ritual pairing of the terms “antisemitism and Islamophobia” — as if they were two sides of the same coin, born of the same prejudice, requiring the same…
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Money Does Not Bring Happiness; So You Might As Well Deposit It In Your Bank
Embed from Getty Images About 35 years ago, for about 20 months of my checkered career, I served as General Counsel to a $10 billion financial institution. Among my proudest professional accomplishments is the fact that no one at the bank…
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Bad Influence
After Sara and Avraham were finally blessed with a son, they tried to raise their precious son, in the best possible way. Sara soon realized that Yitzchak’s older brother, Yishmael, was a very bad influence on him. There was a fourteen year gap…
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The Modern Montgisard Of Parliaments, College Campuses and Mass Media
The first Battle of Montgisard (25 November 1177) was a field of dust and terror. Baldwin IV (of Edom), the 16 year-old leper boy-king of Jerusalem, whose body felt no pain, rode against Saladin (of Ishmael), a warlord who had never known defeat….
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Project Rozana – Advance Medical Care and Save Lives in Gaza
94 percent of all hospitals and health clinics in the Gaza Strip either were destroyed or severely damaged in the two-year Israel-Hamas War. However, there is an important independent health organization, free from the influence of Hamas, that…
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If It Had Not Been for an Immigrant, U.S. Might Have Remained a British Colony
Under order from Donald Trump’s Department of Defense during his first term in office, the U.S. Army suddenly and without much fanfare, had been discharging immigrant recruits and reservists who enlisted under a program initiated in 2008, which…
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‘Tis the Season
We are surrounded, maybe even overwhelmed, by messages about the upcoming holiday season. Regardless of whether you celebrate Chanukah or Christmas, the emphasis is all on “things,” the acquisition, the giving and receiving of gifts. My…
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Veronica (Disorganised Attachment)
Beauty is both a blessing and a curse, I note, as I spot Veronica, young, blonde, uneasy on the station concourse. We’re at San Giovanni, waiting for the ferry to Messina. Around us, a criss-cross of train tracks and Italian signage. No sea in…
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The Permission to Hate: Why Antisemitism Feels Good to Its Users
The Permission to Hate: Why Antisemitism Feels Good to Its Users With the rise of worldwide antisemitic rhetoric, demonstrations, and actions, it is natural to turn once again to trying to make sense of it all. Explanations usually focus on…
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