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![]() Moshe-Mordechai Van ZuidenThe Times of Israel (Blogs) |
Purim jokes or Purim Revelations? Do not use the flash option when photographing a Prophet because how could he not blink every time you try to take...
Life in jail is a very stiff sentence. Even if it’s a commutation of a death sentence. That’s what happened to a handful of WW II top-Nazi leaders...
LGBTQ-oppression is neglected even more than sexism Recent new Israeli rabbinic legislation led to eighty women being freed from their status of a...
This year again —it doesn’t happen so often — Purim falls on Shabbat in Jerusalem (and similar places in Israel). But not all of the Laws of...
As an immigrant, this way, I prevented language problems for me and my kids When I immigrated to Israel, my Hebrew was practically non-existent....
A daring blog post title. Especially considering the 90-minute lecture series on YouTube where the smartest and most knowledgeable among us claim the...
A class heritage and identity that should be understood, known, and celebrated Most Jews in North America work for a living. Most Jews in Israel are...
For years, I thought that it needs to be taught and understood more widely the enormity of the disaster of the death of anyone person and even more so...
It’s now fairly well known that Google search pushes you into an information bubble. Dangerously so, as I wrote about before. The origin of this...
Future pandemics are very likely, unless … There used to be many good reasons for the world’s population to eat less meat, for those who find...
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell first stopped the House from starting Impeachment II for almost two weeks. Then he said, with real chutzpa,...
The worst state of the world would be when everything is considered true and nothing false. But, demagogues, manipulators, thieves, con artists, and...
There are specific days in the year that are adopted by the LGBTQIA community for Queer (minority) celebrations. Let’s investigate. Gay Pride ...
Democracies have a hard time defending themselves. Everyone is so addicted to liberty and individual craziness, that only recently, it is beginning to...
You know, many heroes never intended to become or be heroes. But highlighting their actions can still inspire and teach us to be the best us. My...
We’re in the middle of a plague. I’m vaccinated so I’m practically removed from danger. But I can still pick up the virus and give it to someone...
US ‘President’ Donald J. Trump was onto something when, early on, he called the media the enemy of the State. State being the code for himself. ...
Tonight, G^d willing, will my son Shalom marry Bat-el. The following states in English what I hope to say there. Today is also the 39th yahrtzeit of...
Sexism, not respecting women, interpersonally and institutionally, is still very much alive. Yes, women are allowed to vote, there are more women in...
The poll that found now that most Trump voters would vote for him again even if he ran on a separate ticket is very worrisome. One could say: He...
I’ve seen reporter Christiane Amanpour often. She always has the sharpest questions but when the interviewee talks, she seldom has any follow-up. ...
Down with these calls on Biden to pardon Trump so that fooled tea-party followers, greedy lying Republican Party members, bigoted Christian...
A “new” suggestion: if Bibi steps aside, the Right-wing parties in Israel can unite and without the ultra-Orthodox form a stable government. ...
I’ll overstate things below a bit. If we all did nothing to stop COVID or help cure its patients, worst case scenario, still 8 million Israelis...
Morality, the very last book by Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks is available and rewarded with the top place in the 2020 National Jewish Book Awards. This...
I came out of my 10-months of hunkering down at home, a week after receiving my second vaccination against corona, and I’m shocked. People walk...
It’s going to be a rollercoaster, but don’t worry: it has a happy ending. It’s easy to show and explain that ‘messianic synagogues’ are...
Dear de outgoing (pardon the pun) government! I’m part of this growing army of citizens, now still mostly pensioners, who are doubly vaccinated. We...
Stop everyone from abusing the system High time to indict all the people who protected her against facing justice and where there are no laws to do...
My readers expect the truth from me and I will write only the truth and the whole truth. Too bad for those who want propaganda. I never understand...
It was Purim in Jerusalem that I decided that being outside is too dangerous because of the coronavirus epidemic. And this week, the day before Tu...
So many people must have felt the same: what a relief. What a good taste the whole mostly televised inauguration ceremony was. It represented the USA,...
“We must love every Jew” much reminds me of “We must fully repent.” These both are nice goals for on our deathbeds but for everyday life, they...
We can be very short. His administration had very few pros but many cons. They just winged it but, when it came to lying, they were really top-notch. ...
Good news. Better late than never. More and more of the super-rich are awakening to playing a role in saving the world from climate disaster. Class...
Hot off the Press, Volume 2, the Book of Exodus, just in time for the yearly reading cycle. (Communicated) Approbation Rabbi Cardozo has so often...
The internet is like a gun. Firearms can protect or attack. The Internet can inform but also incite. With a restrained electronic highway, racism and...
If this discussion is not for you, don’t read it and upset yourself. No, Lesbians are not going the way of the Dodo. But there are a few Lesbian...
The below was edited to fit the 45th President’s mental framework. Dear Donald, Don’t panic. Though you may have no time to waste. Cut your...
Recently, I’ve warned that Trump, in his last days, can be dangerous. But the strong condemnation of his mob job across the US political spectrum...
Mitch McConnell lost his obstructer position as Senate Majority Leader. Truth be told, it was a team effort. I’m not sure it would have happened if...
Before his election in 2016, Trump was caught on tape bragging about assaulting women. Anyone decent assumed that’s the end of his race. Not. Any...
Israel is, besides traditionally Jewish, a definite full democracy. All citizens have full rights and almost all obligations (Gentiles are not...
When the US was about to sign the evil contract with Iran, you flew over to try to dissuade them. To no avail, but you tried. And rightly so. You...
The next Israeli government (after a couple of elections) will be formed by the Likud, all leftwing parties, the Ultra-Orthodox, and an Arab splinter....
By voting in Trump in 2016, the American People has proven without the shadow of a doubt that it is naive in great numbers. And that exactly is a bad...
Everyone with an idea in Israel in election time must start his own political party with a program no one ever could construct as one is the savior. ...
She co-writes in an op-ed that Election results denial (Trump) is in fact Democracy denial which is the same as Holocaust denial, though Hitler and...