Yaacov Lozowick's Ruminations

Every year about now there's a discussion in the US about how insensitive it is to talk about Christmas, since not all Americans are Chr...

Mark Steyn is a talented columnist, with the ability to make his serious points in humorous ways. He is, however, far to the right of center...

I'll be offline for a bit, until sometime next week. In the meantime, don't do anything you wouldn't want to see reported on som...

David Ignatius at the Washington Post talks about the technicalities of the attack on Mumbai, and admits it would be hard to stop a similar ...

If you followed and remember the details of the Oslo so-called Peace Process (most people either didn't or don't), you'll be fam...

The Pakistani terrorists who decided to murder Jews as part of their hate of things Indian certainly reminded us of how fundamental antisemi...

The violent wing of the settler movement must be stopped. There is no excuse for what they're doing, and I'm not going to offer any ...

Obama has appointed Hillary Secretary of State . Had he said so during the campaign, I'd have voted for him, since as you may remember m...

Alexandroni was one of the original 12 regiments with which Israel started, back in the War of Independence. Which is why some towns in Isra...

I don't know if the locals prefer to call their town Bombay or Mumbai. I'm willing to assume they prefer the latter. For a few centu...

Due disclosure: I've been at scenes of terrorist attacks, and I've been to war. So I'm personally empathetic to the sentiment of...

According to Mohamed el-Baradei , talking about Syria and whether it was or wasn't engaged in a nuclear program "There is one thing...

Charlotte Higgens tells that Obama's magnificent oratorical skills are built on the principles of Roman oratorical methods . I recommend...

Someone e-mailed me this as a gag. But I don't think it's merely funny. To me, the showdown between a large snake and a curious and ...

Stanley Fish at the NYT approvingly reviews an upcoming book that looks at the constitutional and legal aspects of academic freedom . Each o...

Waltz with Bashir, an Israeli film about the events and memory of the First Lebanon War of 1982, has apparently just opened in London - and ...

Jeffrey Goldberg wants Hillary to be Secretary of State, because he thinks she has a real chance of succeeding with the Israelis&Palesti...

I've noticed that "Bush Legacy" articles are quite in vogue these days, as columnists try to get in one last dig at the outgoi...

The other day Haaretz published the results of a public opinion poll (not online, can't link to it). As usual in such cases, one of the ...

You'll remember, of course (if not from personal experience) that the Nazi defendants at Nuremberg and later war-crime trials claimed th...