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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…