Yaacov Lozowick's Ruminations

I'm not certain we'll ever know the full story here , but the idea the Israelis wre collaborating with the Russians against the othe...

The section of the Bava Batra tractate we covered last week spent more than two double pages discussing various aspects of tsedaka, which is...

Rabbi Yehuda says: Ten elements were created, each more powerful than the next. Rock is hard, but iron cuts it. Iron is hard, but fire melts...

When I was a kid I loved flying. These days, though I do more of it, and maybe even ever more, I don't enjoy it. Not only the endless ho...

Regular readers will know I don't have a high opinion of the popular trend to use legal perspectives and tools to interfere with politic...

A Norwegian investment fund has divested from Elbit , a large Israeli hi-tech company, for its participation in the security barrier. That...

Part of what made the story in Sweden's Aftonbladet so starkly antisemitic was that the science was simply wrong. You can't shoot pe...

Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think that Boston University is the best school in its town. There are two or three others...

In the previous post I quoted a comment left by one anamolousNYC at Modoweiss. So then I went to look at who this guy is. He doesn't hav...

Victor asks my opinion about this article , in which Uri Avnery talks with Desmond Tutu about boycotts and what they can achieve. Avnery sta...

Filmmaker Ken Loach and some others have an article at CiF justifying their boycott of Israel . It doesn't look like a very compelling c...

Each time I touch the issue of health care in America I get all sorts of responses from otherwise passive readers. It has been gratifying to...

Earlier today the next-door neighbor was kvetching. A few months ago her driver's license was revoked, and now she has to use cabs all t...

The only way I read this article is that Franco Frattini, Italy's Foreign Minister, essentially agrees with the Israelis on the issue o...

Yes, there are things that scare Hamas. The mere rumour, most likely quite unfounded, that the UN may try to teach the children of Gaza that...

My friend Yehushua Bichler died earlier this month, age 80. His friends from his own generation called him Robino, from Robert, but I felt t...

Well, perhaps not. The IAEA has just published its semi-annual report . Apparently, it doesn't say anything. It is no secret that there ...

Let's hope not, but I'm noting that the calm isn't total . Also, there are disagreements even about simple things such as if the...

There has just been a birth in the Californian branch of our family. I called the new father to say mazal tov and he described how at the la...

I had a meeting up north today, and on the way back it occured to me to drop by Modi'in Illit and do a spot of reporting. The town was f...