Yaacov Lozowick's Ruminations

President Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital has done more than upend 70 years of American policy. It has underli...

Dr. Devorah Baum of Southampton University may be more connected to some form of traditional Judaism than she lets on in her New York Times ...

Helmut Kohl, former (and important) Chancellor of Germany, died yesterday. I met him once, for 70 minutes, when he came to visit Yad Vashem...

Earlier today we were told that technology giant Intel is about to purchase one of Israel's largest tech firms, Jerusalem-based Mob...

Matti Friedman's haunting description of his time in Southern Lebanon, and ours, begins with the daily transformation of night to day, t...

Michael Herzog is a serious fellow. A retired brigadier general in the IDF intelligence corps. The son of Chaim Herzog, commander of the IDF...

I mostly don't write about books I dislike. Jonathan Safran Foer's new novel, Here I Am , will be an exception, for reasons which ac...

There's this e-mail list I'm on, made up of gray-haired Israeli men who all served together in the Armored Corp in the 1970s, then s...

We recently returned from a hiking trip to Georgia (the country, not the state). We had gone expecting great mountain hikes; we found the c...