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He 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...

Dan. 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...

I 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...

The City of Vancouver’s Park Board held consultations recently on a proposed by-law to permit people to camp overnight in public parks....

American orgy Out of the Hebrew history books came my mother and her family, from the plains of Cossack carnage where horse and rider...

I had been reluctant to watch Fauda when I read that the series depicted the relationship between an Israeli security officer and his...

“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...

Modern societies are inclusive societies. They need to be in order to function. No functional area of social life can work if the people...

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...

Statistics. We keep reading about statistics, but not being epidemiologists, we are at a disadvantage trying to make sense of them. Even...

A former student of mine wrote me recently on Facebook. So, Professor, he ironically asked, what does a sociologist have to say about...

Three days of rage Muslims proclaimed When Mr. Trump his statement made: Israel's capital, he told them, Is sure and true Jerusalem. Were...

Big surprise. On this second day of Shavuot in the galut, 2017, as the soon to be extinct Christians reckon time, President Donald Trump,...

People forget that the two-state solution was a Jewish idea. Precisely for that reason it has never worked and never will work. If the...

The nations of the world continue to gang up on Israel. They prefer, for some deluded reasons of their own, to reward Palestinian...

In justifying the United States’ refusal to veto the recent UN Security Council resolution condemning Israeli settlements in Judea and...

The Torah portion Vayigash, for which Ezekiel’s parable of the two sticks become one is the haftorah, narrates Judah’s magnificent and...

In the haftorah last Shabbat, the biblical narrative read in correspondence with the Torah text of Vayigash, God’s word came to Ezekiel...

The nation state is a modern invention. Swaths of territory form a country which belongs not to the king but to the people. The bond...

In the old days, when Aristotle was around, philosophy embraced science; and the gods, as Homer put it, though gods, were conspicuous....