Yaacov Lozowick's Ruminations

When Jacques Barzun was born, there was a Habsburg on the throne, and a Hohenzollern, and a Romanov. (And a Windsor). He first began teachin...

Against the backdrop of the American elections, and the broader backdrop of Eurzone chaos and American sluggish recovery, the Economist and...

A while back Mondoweiss had a post about the evil Israeli occupation forces which are forcing Jewish names on streets in East Jerusalem so a...

Over the past year or so I've read two small series of books. One, five or six books on Jerusalem, I may write about separately. Paralle...

It's Tisha b'Av, the fast day of mourning for the destroyed Temple in Jerusalem. Three years ago, in 2009, when this blog was still ...

Anyone who deals with the Israel-Palestine conflict will probably have come across the nasty four-map series purporting to show how Israel i...

If you're visiting this blog, you're at the wrong place. This one is mostly dormant, while over here is the one which is sort of ac...

David Brummer, author of the Seattle-based  Brumspeak blog , has passed away. His most recent post was about Ari Shavit's recent interes...

M colleagues and I at the Israel State Archives (ISA) have launched two new blogs, one in English and the other in Hebrew . Once we get int...

There's a poignant story early in the Nidda tractate we're working our way through these days. Rabbi Eliezer had a big disagreement ...

At the end of the Six Day War Israel controlled wide tracts of territory, and someone had to decide what to do with them. Israel's Cabin...

Because if I did still blog, I'd have to spend this entire morning deleting everything I'd written this past month, and hacking into...

As I wrote last summer, I stopped blogging when I was appointed Israel's State Archivist. Being a high civil servant is not compatible w...

While not blogging anymore, I still do dabble in some of the old observation of the online pro-and-con Israel scene. Mondoweiss has been of...

The other day the Guardian published a long, wandering, and not particularly interesting article about what they call " non-monogamus m...

No, this blog is still dormant, as explained here . However, I still post every now and then, so the Google overlords won't delete the e...