Rabbi Dow Marmur

Dictionaries offer many meanings of the word “sinister.” They include: threatening, ominous, bad, evil, base and disastrous. Also: of or on the left side, left, which is the original meaning of the term. When...

Negotiations to form the next government of Israel became a game that nobody was going to win. There’re only losers in Netanyahu’s attempt to form again a right-wing government after the April 9 elections....

Alan Dershowitz is a distinguished law professor emeritus at Harvard University and a passionate defender of the Jewish people and the Jewish state. Almost five years ago he published an article in the Jerusalem...

Fathom is a serious British journal about Israel and the Middle East. Micah Goodman is a serious commentator on Judaism and Israel. The current issue of Fathom carries an important essay by Goodman under the telling title,...

Robert Fulford, the distinguished Canadian journalist, recently devoted one of his regular columns in The National Post to some hopeful comments on the prospect of peace between Israel and the Palestinians. Noting that, by all accounts,...

Had the leaders of Israel’s political parties with seats in the next Knesset been committed to the good of the country and all its citizens – rather than their own interests and the advancement of their...

It’s Election Day in Israel on Tuesday. After a long campaign – not devoid of recriminations, fake news and accusations of real or imagined misdemeanors – we’ll finally be able to cast our votes....

In our cyber age we cannot be surprised when we hear that foreigners are interfering in election campaigns; we’re still waiting to learn about Putin’s role in the US presidential elections. Therefore, on the...

Though the elections in Israel are still some four weeks away, we already know the undisputed winners: the ultra-Orthodox (haredi) parties. Neither side will be able to form a government without them. Though they...

Prime Minister Netanyahu’s decision to have elections next April and not in the Fall, when they were due, was an imaginative way of delaying, perhaps even evading, being indicted for bribery and related charges....