stephen schecterMay 42 minYom HazikaronYom Hazikaron, 2015 So many fallen soldiers Like so much broken glass Steep the land in sorrow And make the heavens brass. Is this the...
stephen schecterMay 19 minHomelessGrowing old, he told me, was like traveling in a foreign country. He had written that to his aunt after spending a considerable number of...
stephen schecterJul 20, 202110 minThe curtain fallsI subscribe to a daily briefing from the Canadian Institute of Jewish Research. Today I read, courtesy of the Post Millennial, that the...
stephen schecterJun 2, 202113 minJerking Off in Gaza (2): Jewish complicity, Jewish historyI am too old to masturbate, but not too old to recognize when jerking off is going on. And that of course is exactly what went on in this...
stephen schecterMay 28, 20219 minJerking Off in Gaza (1): The War Criminals of the WestHere we go again was what I thought when the rockets started raining down on Israel from Gaza, accompanied by the usual rhetoric about...
stephen schecterApr 4, 20218 minPour EdouardHe was my boyhood friend. He lived across the street from me until we moved when I was eight and my life changed forever. I spent many...
stephen schecterSep 27, 202011 minThe Biblical heartland of DeuteronomyDan. Dan toran. The words are a transliteration from the Hebrew. In Hebrew the a is pronounced as the a in father, and the stress in the...
stephen schecterAug 29, 202016 minEvening in AmericaI first met them on a sidewalk outside a friend’s house at the end of a party. She was somewhat drunk and he was comforting her. I could...
stephen schecterJul 21, 20209 minZimbabwe at the Park BoardThe City of Vancouver’s Park Board held consultations recently on a proposed by-law to permit people to camp overnight in public parks....
stephen schecterJun 15, 202013 minAmerican orgyAmerican orgy Out of the Hebrew history books came my mother and her family, from the plains of Cossack carnage where horse and rider...
stephen schecterMay 22, 20207 minWatching FaudaI had been reluctant to watch Fauda when I read that the series depicted the relationship between an Israeli security officer and his...
stephen schecterApr 30, 20207 minWhat to do about China?“O the striped and vigorous tiger can move with style through the borough of murder.” Thus wrote Auden in 1939. “Secret ruses can hide in...
stephen schecterApr 20, 20206 minBlind spots and other mattersModern societies are inclusive societies. They need to be in order to function. No functional area of social life can work if the people...
stephen schecterApr 14, 20206 minObservations on the Pandemic (III)Yesterday a friend phoned to wake me up and ask how I was. He wanted to talk because we have not seen each other for at least ten days...
stephen schecterApr 8, 20207 minObservations on the Pandemic (II)Statistics. We keep reading about statistics, but not being epidemiologists, we are at a disadvantage trying to make sense of them. Even...
stephen schecterApr 4, 20209 minObservations on the Pandemic (I)A former student of mine wrote me recently on Facebook. So, Professor, he ironically asked, what does a sociologist have to say about...
ShabbtaiDec 21, 20173 minThe Peace ProcessThree days of rage Muslims proclaimed When Mr. Trump his statement made: Israel's capital, he told them, Is sure and true Jerusalem. Were...
ShabbtaiJun 1, 20174 minHar Habayit: The open abscess of Israeli sovereigntyBig surprise. On this second day of Shavuot in the galut, 2017, as the soon to be extinct Christians reckon time, President Donald Trump,...
ShabbtaiFeb 19, 20179 minFrom Sinai to the two-state solution: the long reach of Jewish traumaPeople forget that the two-state solution was a Jewish idea. Precisely for that reason it has never worked and never will work. If the...
ShabbtaiJan 26, 20176 minGanging up on Israel: how to kill not only the people of the book, but the book itselfThe nations of the world continue to gang up on Israel. They prefer, for some deluded reasons of their own, to reward Palestinian...