Offshore Gas Deal Seems Fair, Though Ill-Timed
JERUSALEM — An American envoy has produced a draft agreement between Lebanon and Israel for maritime borders, a bit close to an Israeli election. It seems fair but in context it is mired in...
US Fumbles Israel’s Marine Border Negotiations with Lebanon
KFAR SABA, Israel — Israel and Lebanon have no diplomatic relations, despite sharing a border. Each claims about 330 square miles of the Mediterranean Sea as within their own exclusive economic zones. Israel already...
Pretending To Be Fully Alive
Steampunk is a name that describes a whole cultural movement. This includes a genre of science fiction based on inventions from the Victorian movement, a very defined style of fashion based on Victorian fashion...
‘Summer Lightning’ and the Sudden Strikes of Love
Summer Lightning by Roberta Silman, Great Barrington, Mass.: Campden Hill Books; ISBN 97998985-926002; 317 pages; $15.
SAN DIEGO –This novel follows a Jewish family through nearly four decades of American history, starting with the couple’s chance...
How Attuned Are You to the Three Components of Spirituality?
LA JOLLA, California — How often have you heard people say that someone is spiritual? I always wonder what they mean exactly; when asked, no one has ever given me a satisfactory explanation. Current...
Why Ken Burns is Wrong on FDR and the Holocaust
The latest film from Ken Burns, “The U.S. and the Holocaust,” has aroused controversy with its claim that President Franklin D. Roosevelt did his best to help save Jews from the Nazis. As Donald...
Parashat Ha’azinu: Personal Accountability and Responsibility
SAN DIEGO — How’s your hearing lately? Are you listening?
Ha’azinu is one of the seven songs in Tanakh and is one of the shortest parshiot in the Torah with just 52 verses, filled with a treasure of information and striking imagery....
Babi Yar: Erev Yom Kippur September 1941
On September 29-30, 1941, the eve of Yom Kippur, the Germans murdered 33,771 Jewish men, women and children in Babi Yar, almost four miles from the center of Kiev, the capital of the Soviet...
Why Are You In Such A Hurry?
I really don’t think it’s my imagination. Ever since restrictions from Covid have opened up and people are out and about more, the bulk of them seem to be trying to perpetually outpace everyone...
Bringing to Life, Through the Arts, the Victims of the Holocaust
SAN DIEGO — We Are the Tree of Life (WATTOL) founder and director, Jackie Gmach, is adept at recognizing talent and recruiting them to participate in her initiative. In Israeli-born dancer and circus performer,...