Yaacov Lozowick's Ruminations

Here's a quick non-review of Vasily Grossman's magnificent Life and Fate (New York Review Books Classics) . Non-review, since I don...

OK, I admit, that title was a wee bit provocative. Not nice of me. On the other hand, given the story of my family, which isn't new, a...

Norman Geras died yesterday . I never met him personally. We met through the blogosphere, where we linked to each other from time to time, a...

Back in January 2009, when this blog was still active, I began following the story of Aharon Karov, a young infantry li...

The Rav Ovadia is likely to prove the single person world-wide who dies in 2013, and whose works will still be read in 2113, 2213, and 2513....

No-one really knows how many people attended the funeral of the Rav Ovadia Yosef last night. If it was 700,000, that's more than 10% of...

Rabbi Yehoshua Ben Levi is one of the most quoted scholars in the Talmud - assuming he was one scholar and not two, which he may have been. ...

Menachem Ellon passed away a few months ago. He was 89. As a mark of respect I took upon myself to finally read his magisterial two-volume s...

There's been a bit of excitement in the anti-Israeli twittersphere this week, following an unfortunate statement by the brand-new Chief ...

One of the demands made by Abu Mazen in order to be willing to return to the negotiating table to discuss having a Palestinian state has bee...

It's been ages since I did a "daf yomi" post. (The idea was presented and explained here ). So here's a quick one, about J...

As the dwindled number of readers of this blog know, these days I steer firmly away from the political discussion which used to be its main ...

It's been a long time since I did a "Shirim Ivri'im" post. ( The thread was introduced here , and the whole series is tagg...

It's on Mount Zion, but I doubt that will help.

It's very hard to write with any real accuracy about the settlement project, or at least about Israel's intentions, policies and act...

Apparently a few hundred people visit this blog daily, even tho I only post to it rarely. Most visitors seem to be looking at old stuff. Som...

Over the weekend Shai Hazkani published a long article in Haaretz about Israeli crimes in 1948 and attempts to cover them up, first by David...

A few months ago a twitter correspondent suggested I should read Ramzy Baruod's book My Father Was a Freedom Fighter: Gaza's Untold ...

I recently read Joseph Brodsky's little book Watermark . I enjoyed it thoroughly, though I can't tell you what it's about. I mea...

The other day we went to see the new film about Hannah Arendt , directed by Margarethe von Trotta (2012). If you're into Batman films or...