A resident of a shtetl east of Terrell came up to me as I was standing at a display in the Perot Science Museum last week (my grandchildren were visiting). What developed into a most interesting conversation for both of us began with his approaching me and initiating the it in the following manner: “I have a question I would […]
No one likes bomb scares – especially Jews who are at their local JCC. A phone call is placed by either a lunatic or Jew hater … or both, to a local JCC, alerting it that a bomb has been planted. The entire Jewish community remains on red alert long after the premises have been declared to be bomb free. […]
Palestinians living in Gaza taking to the streets is no longer newsworthy. Palestinians living in Gaza taking to the streets to demonstrate against their own corrupt leadership causes one to sit up and take notice. Such was the case a few days ago, when 10,000 Palestinians protested on the streets of Jabaliya for having being kept in the dark by […]
You would think that we Jews would be used to it by now. As long as Jews walk the face of this earth, there will be those who abhor us. Yet, we seem to possess this innate need to focus in on Anti-Semitism. It’s as though we aren’t happy unless we are upset by incidents of Jew hatred. It came […]
For those of us who begin January by hoping for a better year ahead of us, than the year that is now behind us, fret not. The United Nations assures us that 2016 was one spectacular year. The public health arm of the United Nations, known as the WHO or the World Health Organization brings tidings that that the physical, […]
