Yaacov Lozowick's Ruminations

The Mishna is instructing how to determine if various physical defects make an animal permanently impure and ineligible to be sacrificed whi...

In the summer of 2005 America and Europe wanted Israel's disengagement from Gaza to be complete. It was really important to them. So by ...

Here are a few links to articles about how Israelis are working to make their country stronger, or to withstand this onslaught or that, and ...

I continue to be offline, sorry for the inconvenience. In the meantime, here's an interesting article about a subject I often write abou...

Here's a very short and necessarily superficial summary of the theory of lawmaking in modern democratic societies. The people are sove...

Yesterday I linked to the story about the Hamas Prime Minster, no less , who condemned America's killing of Bin Laden. Meanwhile he has ...

Charles Blattberg responded to my post about how international law has not created world peace or anything remotely like it, by e-mailing a...

Norm pokes fun at a Guardian leader here . Always a worthy pastime, even if it's not a hard one. So I went and read the piece he finds ...

The Washington Post yesterday carried a story about how Israel claims the Hizballah has built hundreds of military targets in Lebanese towns...

At one point this afternoon we were standing on the top of the hill where Sokoh once stood. Sokoh was a village in the bronze and iron ages,...

Just like everyone, I don't pretend to know what's the story with Libya. First the relevant nations spent a month dillying and dally...

Robin Shepherd last week wrote a delightful article at the Jewish Chronicle about how Obama has weakened the notion that Israeli settlement...

Today has been an offline day for me. However, I did find time to have a peek at a link suggested by Y.Ben David, who mentioned an article b...

A few years back Samantha Power wrote an excellent book titled A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide. A quick summary of the...

From the New York Times : The administration appeared as taken aback by Mr. Mubarak’s speech as the crowds in Tahrir Square. The director ...

 I've been wondering for months if Amnesty International would ever repent for the way it blasted Israel when our police arrested Ameer ...

In May 2010 Amnesty International blasted Israel for arresting one of their own , a human rights activist; they trumpeted the action as crue...

Those of us who are old enough may perhaps have a fleeting moment of belated recognition upon reading that Almost never used in English bef...

Stuff I found here and there: The British are moving towards ridding themselves of the idiotic law which means Israeli politicians can...

The comments on my post yesterday about Glenn Greenwald were interesting, and seemed to indicate a bit of confusion between different matte...