“Israel represents the greatest concentration of innovation and entrepreneurship in the world today,” wrote Dan Senor and Saul Singer in their book, Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle, published in 2009. Their claim … [Read more]
A hall full of widows and orphans
It was a gala with gifts, music and dancing as well as sighs and tears. Each year in Jerusalem, Chabad, an Orthodox Jewish Hasidic movement known worldwide for its outreach, hosts a days-long Hanukkah party for a special group of Israelis. On … [Read more]
After shocking US abstention at UN, where shall Israel place her faith?
“One of the biggest American rebukes of its longstanding ally in recent memory,” and “a striking rupture with past practice,” is how the Associated Press characterized the US abstention, on December 23 at the United Nations security council, as the … [Read more]
No way to meet the neighbors…
My wife, Marcia, and I do not know how the local weather service estimated wind gusts in Jerusalem on Thursday evening, December 1st of this year, but we do know that they blew it. The reported wind velocity of 24 kilometers/hour (15 miles/hour) is … [Read more]
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