stephen schecter18 hours ago9 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 this coronavirus pandem...
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 they Arab, Turk or ...
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, contrary to his ele...
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 Palestinians had come ...
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 intransigence, lies, murder...
ShabbtaiJan 25, 20177 minThe idiot’s question: can Israel be Jewish and democratic?In justifying the United States’ refusal to veto the recent UN Security Council resolution condemning Israeli settlements in Judea and Samaria and Israeli bu...
ShabbtaiJan 10, 20176 minEzekiel’s stick (2): the meaning of national unityThe Torah portion Vayigash, for which Ezekiel’s parable of the two sticks become one is the haftorah, narrates Judah’s magnificent and moving offer of reconc...
ShabbtaiJan 9, 20175 minEzekiel’s stick: putting an end to the Jewish odysseyIn the haftorah last Shabbat, the biblical narrative read in correspondence with the Torah text of Vayigash, God’s word came to Ezekiel much as Judah’s words...
ShabbtaiNov 22, 20167 minThe nation state and why the Palestinians never should and never will have oneThe nation state is a modern invention. Swaths of territory form a country which belongs not to the king but to the people. The bond tying the people togethe...
ShabbtaiNov 15, 20166 minA brief history of sociologyIn the old days, when Aristotle was around, philosophy embraced science; and the gods, as Homer put it, though gods, were conspicuous. With the Roman Empire ...
ShabbtaiNov 8, 201610 minDoes Israel have any allies?The answer to that question is no. But then, did not Balaam thus prophesize when he said the Israelites are a people that shall dwell alone? Dwelling alone i...
ShabbtaiOct 7, 201619 minThe end of liberalism?It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, wrote Dickens. He may as well have been writing about today. How far have we traveled in the past fifty ...
ShabbtaiAug 31, 20166 minFreeloading off the global welfare stateSyrian doctors from Aleppo recently called on US President Obama to stop Russian air strikes on the city. It was not so long ago that another American presid...
ShabbtaiAug 3, 20165 minSexual Depravity and Muslim TerrorA French government commission of inquiry about the Muslim terror attacks on the Bataclan Theater in Paris last November heard testimony that some of the vic...
ShabbtaiAug 2, 20163 minWhile Ankara burns Washington fiddles...and condemns IsraelThere may or may not have been a coup in Turkey engineered by its president. It collapsed rather quickly for a coup and was followed even more quickly by the...
ShabbtaiJul 21, 20165 minThe road to Nice went through JerusalemFor a year now Palestinians have been killing Israeli civilians at random – knifing them, shooting them, driving cars into them, especially in and around Jer...
ShabbtaiJul 12, 20164 minWhat difference does it make?So asked then Secretary of State Clinton when asked by a Senate Committee to explain her response to the attack on the American consulate in Benghazi. And so...
ShabbtaiJul 8, 20161 minWelcome to my Blog!Welcome to my blog! Here you will find all kinds of goodies. Notifications of my weekly Torah commentary (Drash); announcements of what is new on my website;...