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Better Times for Israel After the March 2 Elections?

We are having elections in Israel on March 2, i.e., in less than two weeks - the third time within a year
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Trump’s Piece Plan Is Not a Peace Plan

For much of the 21 years that I served as a rabbi in two congregations in London, I also worked voluntarily as a marriage guidance counsellor.
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The Deal of the Century – Really?

“To build in Judea and Samaria like in Tel Aviv.” That’s one of the headlines in today’s Yisrael Hayom
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Our “Friends” Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump

The campaign to re-elect the prime minister of Israel and his supporters in the Knesset on March 2 has gone global.
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Remembering Auschwitz in Jerusalem

Many of the world’s VIPs are in Jerusalem today: heads of state or their deputies, heads of government, foreign ministers and other important dignitaries from more than 40 countries. They’ve come to mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.
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Shrinking the Conflict

In an effort to balance the pessimistic reflections in my references to Micah Goodman’s analysis of the situation created by the occupation, let me now cite from the same essay by Goodman in The Atlantic in which he also suggests how the seemingly insoluble conflict between Israel and the Palestinians can be – as he puts it - shrunk, even if it can’t be resolved.
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From Dreams to Fears

US President Trump promises/threatens again to release his plan for resolving the Israel-Palestinian conflict before the March 2 elections in Israel.
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A Call for Unity

A full-page ad in Monday’s Ha’aretz purports to speak on behalf of more than a million Israeli voters who demand a government of unity in place of the present seemingly dysfunctional setup. As none of the seven political leaders depicted…
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An Unnecessary War

Mark Lavie has had a distinguished career in journalism. I well remember listening to his informative and unbiased reports from Israel on CBC radio. He has also written books. The latest is called, Are We Still Afraid? I gather from his piece…
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Putin and the Israeli Elections

A cartoon in Ha’aretz (January 14) shows Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia, in a room with his cyber hackers. One of them asks his president something to the effect: “Are we on the side of the Hasidim or the Litvaks (who normally oppose…

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