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Art of the Deal: Is Trump’s Bestseller the Secret to Peace in the Middle East?
Two state solution advocates recently received a boost when US President Donald Trump hosted Palestinian Authority (P.A.) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas at the White House. Abbas’s urging of Trump to restart...
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Israel’s First World problems: On Aerosmith and security prisoners
Israel’s much-touted economic miracle, given official sanction when the country joined the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in 2010, has brought with it a slew of first...
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Schizophrenic: An American Zionist in Israel
The Jewish Agency, Nefesh B’Nefesh, Israel’s Ministry of Diaspora Affairs and other organizations charged with convincing world Jewry that its destiny is intertwined with that of Israel fail to...
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Job to the Left of Me, Crazy Girls to My Right: Israel Festival Blends...
The Israel Festival, taking place from June 1st to June 18th, 2017, is a sensory delight. The annual interdisciplinary celebration, based in Jerusalem, features performances that you simply won’t be...
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Israel: Confronting Fake News, One Camera at a Time
While today’s widespread use of the term fake news can be traced to Donald Trump’s first press conference as President-elect, Israel has long had to grapple with the phenomenon of media outlets bending...
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AOC, His Name Was Dvir Sorek
Freshman Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently revealed her true feelings about Israel. During a radio interview, AOC concurred wholeheartedly with the program’s host that “…what’s...
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Israel Announces August BDS Ambition Tour (one true satire)
In response to the furor unleashed by the Israeli government’s decision to block entry to two U.S. congresswomen, a hastily produced tour of the Jewish state has been announced. The seven-city musical...
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The curious case of Israel’s invisible election
With the great election redo of 2019 less than two weeks away Israelis across the political spectrum are meeting up in living rooms, pubs and coffee shops around the country to discuss the great issues...
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Hijacking Human Rights
What’s striking about the international community’s reaction to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent pledge to apply sovereignty to Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria and the Indian...
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The Unbearable Cost of a Unity Government
Ever since Israel’s snap election drew to a close last week, the country’s chattering class has ginned up its campaign to convince Israelis that what they really want is a national unity government. To...
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It’s Pronounced Tzade, Dad!
Imagine finding out at the ripe old age of 46 that there was a letter in the English alphabet that you never knew existed. Would you be left awestruck? Would you be temporarily blinded by this flash of...
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Pause, Rewind, Play: Can A Father Change the Future?
My latest paying gig comes with some choice benefits, the best being I get to work remotely four days out of every five. Once a week, I pop in to the office to touch base, sit in on meetings, and sip...
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Chaos and Creation: Becoming a Father During a Snowstorm
Photo by Laura Garcia from Pexels Jerusalem’s snowstorm of the century began with a toast. My mother-in-law, Jean, was visiting us, and I had bought a bottle of her favorite local wine and a bouquet of...
View ArticleOne Window, Three Scenes
Scene 1: Jonty gets lucky A hand smacks the ground floor window, sticks to the pane, and slithers away. I amble over to the corner of my bedroom, prop open the window, and peer out. “Lemme in, G,” my...
View ArticleAn Englishman Trapped Inside a Jerusalem Barber Shop
JONATHAN MORNINGSIDE hurries across Street to Davidka Square, his mop of black wavy hair bobbing in the wind. The second he bounds past the tracks of the light rail, Jonathan realizes he’s left the...
View ArticleThe Ido
Let me tell you about a different kind of hotel no tell. The Ido, pronounced e-DOH, in downtown Jerusalem is a charming nook that doesn’t pop up on any hotel review website or generate any buzz, on or...
View ArticleFire in the hole: A postcard from an Israeli hi-tech company
“WHEN EVERYTHING’S urgent, nothing’s urgent.” That’s the approach I take whenever a code red alert blares out of my CEO’s office. Every day here at People Pleasers, Inc. brings new do or die nightmare...
View ArticleIt Only Hurts To Pray
RODNEY IAN Birnbaum’s purple-trimmed prayer shawl slices through the early morning Jerusalem air with a vengeance. God only knows when, if ever, he’ll be this close to the source of all creation. Even...
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I was priced out of spiraling Jerusalem. I got a second lease on life in Haifa
With rising rents and dimming hopes for peace, what if we strove to be good neighbors instead? “Around here, we don’t use words like ‘Jews’ and ‘Arabs.’” That sentence rings in my ears weeks after my...
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