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Yom Hashoah this year is being commemorated by Jewish communities worldwide amidst the biggest upsurge of hate and incitement since the liberation of the concentration camps in 1945. Once the full horror of the Holocaust years had been revealed it was generally believed by most that this descent into barbaric Jew-hate would finally and for…

Quote: “The future is an unknown but a somewhat predictable unknown. To look to the future, we must first look back upon the past. That is where the seeds of the future were planted.” (Albert Einstein) All politicians, so-called experts and commentators, media mavens, religious and lay spokespersons as well as politically left of field voters…

It may in the end have taken forty years to get here but the road map couldn’t have been clearer. In the first recorded use of a GPS, the Hebrew slaves left Egypt guided by a cloud during the day and a pillar of fire during the night. Their destination was not a secret and…

Very often there are news items that upset conventional thinking and as a consequence, they sink without trace. On the other hand, inconvenient revelations can also result in a re-evaluation of the subjects involved. Three unrelated news reports this past week demonstrate how unexpected facts can have an impact nationally and internationally. One could call…

If something is flying under the radar it usually means that it is undetected or unseen. That accurately sums up news concerning Israel as far as most of the mainstream media is concerned. On those rare occasions when there is a major blip and items slip through it is almost guaranteed that somehow or other…

Any history student of Julius Caesar’s life will instantly recognize the significance of the Ides of March. That date, to paraphrase the late President F.D. Roosevelt, will “live on in infamy” as the day many of Caesar’s erstwhile friends turned on him and literally stabbed him in the back. Ever since any malevolent occurrence at…

The festivities are over, the fancy costumes and masks are put away for another year and it is time to take note of the real world again. Having drowned out Haman’s name during the Megillah reading and some having drowned themselves in alcoholic euphoria it will no doubt come as a severe shock for many…

This well known Yiddish expression, usually used as a wry comment, basically means a “complicated and involved situation or state of affairs without end.” There are variations on this translation but I believe that the above explanation more than adequately sums up the situation we find ourselves in on the eve of Purim this year.…

According to surveys, on average five times as many people read the headlines as read the news items. That possibly explains why the real gist of any particular subject gets lost and misinformation abounds. With social media now reigning supreme and today’s generation having a very limited attention span it is not surprising that millions…

Quote: “There is something coming this way and I don’t want to be here when it arrives.” Surveying the current international scene one cannot escape the inevitable conclusion that there is a multitude of potential disasters heading our way at breakneck speed. Although some may still have a chance to get out of the way…