11 Perplexing Things About Life in Israel
From the moment my wife and I moved our family from San Diego, California to Ra’anana nearly four months ago, we’ve noticed countless puzzling things about Israel, some good, some bad; some funny, some...
View ArticleNetanyahu Basketball Comments Ignite Another Diplomatic Firestorm
JERUSALEM – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has sparked yet another international inferno with, of all things, comments about American basketball that critics have condemned as inflammatory...
View ArticleMisha and Yogi
In a span of four short days, the world lost two giants: longtime Israeli Supreme Court Justice Mishael (“Misha”) Cheshin, who died on September 19 at 79, and famed New York Yankees catcher Lawrence...
View ArticleIn Cleveland, the Trump Circus, Up Close and Personal
CLEVELAND, OHIO – The night before I arrived here last month to drop my kids off at summer camp, my beloved Golden State Warriors had faltered in Game 7 of the NBA Finals to the Cleveland Cavaliers,...
View ArticleFrom #NeverTrump to “Respect but Verify”
To those who share Trump’s party but not his values: principled governance is possible -- with vigilance
View ArticleTocqueville as Self-Help Guru: A review of James Poulos’s The Art of Being...
What can a 19th century French nobleman possibly teach us about cultivating virtue, culture, freedom, and equality in contemporary American society? Quite a bit, it turns out. While Alexis de...
View ArticleFrom Jerusalem to Vienna: Broken Glass, Trump’s Proclamation, and Hanukkah
The smashed window of a kosher restaurant in Vienna conjures an all-too-familiar and enduring hatred
View ArticleCosmology, Judaism, and the Nobel Prize: An Interview with Physicist and...
How and when did the universe start? How do Jewish values inform scientific inquiry? And how have so darn many Jews won the Nobel Prize? Brian Keating, a professor of astrophysics at the University of...
View Article5 year Aliyaversary: Israel’s promise and challenge
Today, the 10th of Av, our family marks five years since arriving in Israel – our “Aliyaversary.” Our experience in the Jewish state has been blessedly wonderful, on balance. We have surmounted myriad...
View ArticleJack Rosen, who bridged worlds human and canine
Given the horrific state of the human world in Israel and abroad, it feels a little strange—self-indulgent, even—to be eulogizing our dog, Jack, who left us earlier this week at the ripe old age of...
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