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Shimon Peres [1923-2016]  

Designating a series of moralistic lessons said to have been preached by Jesus in the vicinity of Capernaum alongside the Sea of Galilee, t...

I've just been rereading my Israeli novel, All the Earth is Mine , which I published through Gamone Press. I'm constantly prou...

This morning, I was pleased to learn that Richard Dawkins had retweeted (to his almost half-a-million followers) my latest message. C...

In Jerusalem, fights have been erupting for ages between different Christian denominations inside the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. This Chr...

In Israel, they breed 'em tough and smart. Alongside a hardy Sabra (Hebrew name of the Prickly Pear, used to designate Jews born in Isr...

Everybody knows that, for centuries, Jews have had a hard time… to put it mildly. The Holocaust revealed unequivocally that God does not exi...

It's marvelous to see that the Franco-Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit appears to be in perfect shape. He must now be liberated, absolutely...

Concerning the 150-year jail sentence for Bernard Madoff , I can understand perfectly well that the entire American system intends to send o...

The ongoing conflict is Gaza is weird in many ways. First, there's the obvious question of why the Hamas suddenly decided, on December 1...

It's absurd to apply the expression "Holy Land" to the tiny segment of hell on Earth named Gaza , where dozens have been dyin...

I've repeated the title of a short article I wrote nearly a year and a half ago [ display ] . I admire this woman. I persist in believin...

I'm fond of my Jewish skullcap, which I bought long ago in the extraordinary Holy City of Jerusalem . I used to wear it momentarily when...

Israel's national anthem is called Hope : The nation's second anthem is Jerusalem of Gold by Naomi Shemer , sung here by O...

The word "innocence", incorporating the Latin verb nocere (to harm), means "doing no harm". It's a far stronger not...

Israel has her own particular way of commenting upon assassinations such as that of Imad Moughnieh , a Hezbollah chief in Lebanon. The Jewis...

At the time the Six-Day War [click here to display my recent article on this subject] , the Israeli composer Naomi Shemer created a magnif...

The least that can be said is that Tony Blair has not found himself in the same predicament as laid-off workers who have to spend ages look...

At the outset, in 16th-century Venice, the term ghetto had nothing to do with Jews. The Italian verb gettare designates metal casting, and...

In 20th-century geopolitical history, the phenomenon of a single people split artificially into two nations is familiar. The oldest case of ...