August 14, 2025 The last time I was in Washington DC I came out of my downtown hotel near the White House and asked the doorman which way to walk to a certain restaurant. ‘Turn left you will be fine,’ he said. ‘Turn right and you may be murdered.’ This […]
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.’ […]
