How Bank Leumi Once Saved My Life
In good times and bad, financially speaking, Miriam Gavriel and Bank Leumi, Yokneam Elit, are in my heart, if not always on my mind. The year was 1997 and I was 46 years old. A single mother with two teenage daughters, I had finally, after many years, reached financial security. I was treating sex trauma […]
Is Hungary Good For Today’s Hungarian Jews?
Unlike Germany, Hungary has not accepted its part in the Holocaust. The official Hungarian position is that the Nazis made them do it when they occupied Hungary in early 1944. Perhaps they hope that this will be enough to obviate the need for reparations to Hungarian Jews as they seem to seek a relationship with […]
Intersectional Jews, Strangers, and Our Tribe
People naturally gravitate toward those who hold some commonality with their past, whether they look back with nostalgia or not. I was born and grew up in Canada and so when I meet a Canadian I feel something in common. There are aspects about growing up Canadian that Canadians share at a visceral level – […]
Damn Israeli Bastards! If You Believe Reuters, That Is!
Yesterday, Reuters put out a press report that was copy-pasted by a number of other so-called news sites around the world. I was shown the report on Canadian Global News, but no reason to analyze the secondary source. Let us look at the original Reuters article, one commonly used source of fake journalism so rampant […]
Fake Journalism About Israel — The New Opium For The Masses
Global News regurgitated pablum dished out by Reuters yesterday in spite of Global‘s claim to provide: . . . deep engaging content that puts complex world issues in perspective. Our 12 local newsrooms provide up-to-the-minute community-based news, weather and information, while our national coverage features stories, analysis and deep, engaging content about issues in Canada […]
New Book Contends Well With Old Accusation Against Israel (Without Taking Sides)
Is Israel stealing land from Palestinian Arabs? Martin Blecher, author of the soon-to-be published book, Israeli Settlements: Land Politics beyond the Geneva Convention, suggests that what one asks about an issue is key to understanding it and that this seemingly simple question is actually made up of a number of questions. Whether or not Israel […]
Do Not Mistake This For Weakness
Jew: You want to do what is right and what is humane. You want to live up to your own cherished values and you want the values of your nation to be true to those you were brought up to see as the values of your tradition and the sages, whether you are religious or […]
What Justice Demands: Has Trump Read This Book?
I write neither to praise Trump nor to scorn him so please do not jump down my throat. It just seems to me that President Trump has been operating in a way that corresponds somewhat with the conclusions to Elan Journo’s book: What Justice Demands. Let me first tell you why I think that and […]
Bet You Cannot Guess Who Invented An Israeli Utopian Fantasy
Who wants us to believe that Jews and Arabs got along just hunky-dory before we uppity Jews decided to become Zionists? Professor Menachem Klein of Bar Ilan University’s Department of Political Science does. Here! Let us start with his first sentence in a recently published article (title and abstract at the end of this post): […]
American Jews — Galloping to the Polling Stations in Israel?
American Jews, you have the right to your opinions. But you do not have the right to tell Israel what to do. That right would only be yours were you to move here and accept the automatic citizenship bestowed upon Jews from everywhere just because they are Jews. In fact, some of us Israelis tell […]