Yaacov Lozowick's Ruminations

Never-ending wars, economic gloom, terrible drivers, consistently idiotic politicians, hordes of nasty antisemites, Iranian bombs, hot summe...

The other day I linked to the short-list of pictures competing at Y-net for the slot of "Most typically Israeli picture, 2009", a ...

The other day I had a meeting with Dr. Gila Flam, the head of the music department at our National Library, and a musicologist herself. In a...

Earlier this evening we began commemorating Yom HaZikaron, the day of commemoration for more than 24,000 Israelis killed in our wars. It...

The Central Bureau of Statistics published some numbers about Israel's population, as every year the day before Independence Day. Almost...

Mahmud Abbas - Abu Mazen - regularly described as the Moderate Palestinian President today gave a speech in which he rejected recognizing Is...

Yakov Litzman, Deputy Minister of Health and effectively Acting Minister of Health, convened a press conference this morning to reassure us ...

Blogposts and newspaper editorials are ephemeral: here today, gone today. They may have a cumulative effect, but only in the aggregate. Not ...

Y-Net, probably Israel's most popular website, has been running a competition for Best Snapshot of the Year, to be chosen for Independen...

According to Matt Pressman at Vanity Fair, Time and Newsweek wish to be like The Economist - and Pressmen explains convincingly why they won...

Yesterday evening I went to a book launch of Daniel Gordis' new book, Saving Israel: How the Jewish People Can Win a War That May Neve...

Claudia Rosett explains why the fiasco of the United Nations "Durban II" conference was inevitable given the way the UN understan...

Amos Harel, who's a serious journalist who knows his stuff, listened carefully to the IDF officers reporting yesterday, and came away on...

The New York Times nails the matter: It depends. If the torture of a few terrorists saves the lives of thousands of innocents (and you know ...

The Economist is skeptical , but welcomes anyone who can tell us when this mess will be over.

The Economist in its science section tells about new research into the connection between autism and genius . One possible connection posite...

The IDF today presented the findings from its investigations of the Gaza operation . I've looked for the reports themselves, but if the...

Earlier today, as I was walking by the school for children with severe learning impediments that's around the corner, a child was chatti...

Barry Rubin has a new blog, The Rubin Report . May he be as popular as Juan Cole, without being as silly. At the moment, his top post contai...

Andrew Sullivan seems to be saying that when it comes to torture, the Americans have been worse than the Nazis . This is so blatantly crap (...