August 8, 2025 Israel’s savaging of Gaza has now inflicted over 61,000 dead. This is close to the generally accepted death toll from the US nuclear bombing of Nagasaki, Japan in Sept 1945. Nagasaki was hit with the second atomic bomb on August 9, 1945. Its hilly topography prevented even […]


July 31, 2025 ‘Judaism is to do justice and to have mercy and to walk humbly with God; and all the rest is commentary and of secondary importance’. So wrote Rabbi Elmer Berger, a leading Jewish thinker of the 50’s and 60’s, who opposed what he called Israeli-style ‘Jewish nationalism.’ […]


July 25, 2025 As President Donald Trump strives to dominate the United States and the entire globe, the ground under his feet is being eroded out by the explosive Jeffrey Epstein sex scandal. I had lunch at Epstein’s palatial New York City house on E 71st street. I met him […]