How Israel Can Be Normal

Posted on: March 26th, 2008

Since the founding of the state, the goal of Israel's leaders has been to make Israel a normal state like all other states.

Still Facing Existential Threats: Nuclear War And Genocide In The Middle East (Part Two)

Posted on: March 26th, 2008

Facing imminent existential attacks, Israel could decide to preempt enemy aggression with conventional forces.

Anti-Semitic Incidents In Poland

Posted on: March 26th, 2008

People are on edge when it comes to the topic of anti-Semitic occurrences in Poland.

We Climbed The Wrong Mountain

Posted on: March 19th, 2008

Have you ever climbed the wrong mountain? I don't think that anybody who has passed through IDF officers training has not had that experience.

Still Facing Existential Threats: Nuclear War And Genocide In The Middle East (Part One)

Posted on: March 19th, 2008

"In a dark time," says the poet Theodore Roethke, "the eye begins to see." Today, with improving sight, the Iranian nuclear threat should remain bright in our visual field. Despite a recent U.S. National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) that effectively supports Tehran's multiple lies and deceptions, this unconventional threat remains existential. It follows that an Israeli and/or American preemptive strike against certain Iranian nuclear assets and infrastructures should still not be ruled out.

Forty Years Since March Of ’68

Posted on: March 19th, 2008

Throughout Jewish history there have been many defining moments.

The Terror Outside And The Terror Within

Posted on: March 12th, 2008

My readers in The Jewish Press are accustomed to reading my articles on timely strategic and jurisprudential issues. For the most part, these columns have explored various dangers of terrorism, war and genocide. But sometimes we are imperiled by a very different sort of terror. There is, of course, the "usual" threat of terror violence (the terror "outside"), but there is also a serious specter of interior terror that arises from our willful abandonment of individuality (the terror "within").

Desecration At The Ohel Of Rabbi Elimelech Of Lejask

Posted on: March 12th, 2008

It was only last week that thousands of Chassidim went to Lejask (Lizhensk) in order to commemorate the 222nd yahrzeit of the tzaddik, Noam Elimelech of Lejask (1717-1786).

The Finger In The Gaza Dike

Posted on: March 5th, 2008

The children of Sderot are the finger in the Gaza dike. They are there to save us all from the great flood.

Do You Understand?

Posted on: March 5th, 2008

Do you understand the daily rocket attacks against Sderot, Israel?

Agudat HaRabonim Of Poland Re-established After 70 Years

Posted on: March 5th, 2008

An event, thought to be impossible after the Shoah, took place in Lodz.

War On Gaza?

Posted on: February 27th, 2008

As calls for all-out war on Gaza increase, it is important to set things straight.

After Annapolis: Israeli Rights, Arab/Islamic Anti-Semitism And International Law (Conclusion)

Posted on: February 27th, 2008

Some years ago, following one of the devastating suicide bombings in which small Jewish children were blown to bits, prominent Palestinian columnist Fahd al-Rimawi - then writing with obvious approval of Nobel Peace laureate Yassir Arafat in Amman's al-Majd newspaper, gleefully celebrated the monstrous act of terror:

Jewish Community Contacts

Posted on: February 27th, 2008

Over the past few weeks, I have been sharing contact information about various secular organizations in Poland.

The Justice/Security Connection

Posted on: February 20th, 2008

If the ideas put forward at the recent Herzliya Conference are any indication, both the classic Right and religious Right are captive to the Oslo paradigm and the consciousness that produced it.

After Annapolis: Israeli Rights, Arab/Islamic Anti-Semitism And International Law (Part I)

Posted on: February 20th, 2008

The recent Annapolis "peace" conference - and President Bush's subsequent visit to the Middle East - shows that where Israel is concerned, there is still nothing new under the sun. Once again, fundamental Israeli rights were shamelessly subordinated to the presumed rights of all others, including even of openly Arab defiant terrorists now conveniently disguised as an "Authority." Once again, it seems, Israel had been called upon to offer land for nothing.

Polish Center For Holocaust Research (Conclusion)

Posted on: February 20th, 2008

In order to emphasize the magnitude of the Holocaust and genocide, Director of the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology: Polish Academy of Sciences, Professor Henryk Domanski, created the Polish Center for Holocaust Research, on July 2 2003.

Understanding Gaza: Pain And Perfidy Under International Law

Posted on: February 13th, 2008

It is easy to feel sorry for the Palestinians in Gaza. Televised and print images of their apparently unrelieved misery suggest Israeli cruelty in the creation of shortages and in the use of armed force. Exactly the opposite is true. The moment that flagrantly illegal Hamas rocket attacks upon Israeli noncombatants cease, no harms of any kind will be imposed by Israel.

Foundation Momentum Iudaicum Lodzense (Part Two)

Posted on: February 13th, 2008

The Foundation Momentum Iudaicum Lodzense was established on November 6 1995.

Well, Dear Candidates, Which Is It? A Tactical War On Terror, Or A Genuine Clash Of Civilizations?

Posted on: February 6th, 2008

From a national survival standpoint, the candidate debates remain pretty much beside the point. Not a single presidential aspirant has answered (or even attempted to answer) a very important question: Are we Americans now involved in a merely tactical struggle against particular terror groups and individuals, or are we, instead, embroiled in something much larger? Should we now be focusing on assorted political, military and logistical issues (the effective position, more or less, of all candidates), or upon the much wider religious and cultural context from which our principal terror enemies are spawned?