Name: Ruvy in Jerusalem
Dateline: Ma'ale Levona, Israel
Weblog: ruvysroost.blogspot.com
Articles: 97
First Published: Thursday, November 10, 2005
Last Published: Tuesday, April 8, 2008
The writer was born in Brooklyn and lived in Minnesota for a number of years. There he managed restaurants and wrote stories. He moved with his family to Israel where they now reside. He is published by Jewish Indy, as well as by Desicritics.org.Currently listing articles 97-51:
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A Coming Peace Agreement? Israel News Analysis— Peace! Peace! But there is no peace!
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Exercises in Futility: News Analysis From Israel— While they pretend to be concerned about our security, the power-holders in Jerusalem quietly draw the borders enclosing who they will "protect".
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Eight Dead and Forty Wounded in Arab Terror Attack on Jerusalem Yeshiva— The terror spigot has been opened; our mourners will weep as the Arabs celebrate in joy - for now.
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Thoughts on Rabbi Meir Kahane, z"l, hy"d, and What I Owe Him — Rabbi Meir Kahane was so controversial that only hostile biographies can be found. When will we see his widow's biography of him?
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Late Congressman Tom Lantos "Savaged" on Air by Radio Host— There is a rudeness, a viciousness, a needless hatred in Eastern European Jewish culture that pervades it like a miasmal disease.
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Blizzard in Israel— Is snow a gift or an inconvenience? Is it a sign of the World of Truth or the World of Lies?
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Hurricane Katrina: The Battle of New Orleans Refought?— What signs do you get that G-d has granted a blessing? Or that He has canceled that blessing?
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Shining the Light of Redemption on the Mud of Upcoming Events: Part II— — While Americans focus on primaries, looking to the future, their future is rushing at them - and they don't see it coming.
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Shining the Light of Redemption on the Mud of Upcoming Events: Part I— While Americans focus on primaries, looking to the future, their future is rushing at them - and they don't see it coming.
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Israel - A Disintegrating, Dysfunctional Society— These anecdotes are all illustrative, I believe, of a terrible decay of social cohesion in the Jewish population of Israel.
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Apocalyptically Sudden Climate Change – Looking at The Sixth Winter and The Day After Tomorrow— It's not whether it gets hot or cold that is scary. It is the speed of the change that terrifies.
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Book Review: Cross-Time Engineer (The Adventures of Conrad Stargard, Book 1) by Leo Frankowski— Don't get drunk at the Red Gate Inn. You may go back seven centuries in time.
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Barenboim Sinks to a New Low - bringing "Peace Orchestra" to Hitler's Waldbühne Stadium to play Wagner — "Hitler and Wagner would not, as you say, “turn in their graves” to see you do this-- they would applaud."
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Part II: Sitting Guard at the Gate - Looking at the Jewish Theory of History to Understand Events— Can a lazy hawk rising on a thermal explain events here when experts can't?
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Part I: Sitting Guard at the Gate - Terror Returns to Ma'aleh Levona as the Régime Loses Its Focus— When evil rules, only terror can result. As the government sinks into evil, terror returns to haunt us...
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Apres Feiglin, La Deluge: Why I'm Voting To Have A New Likud leader— If we fail to turn to Moshe Feiglin to lead the State, we are headed for disaster.
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Israeli News Analysis: Getting Noisy Outside the Prime Minister's Office— Israelis scream a lot - but the noise is getting habitual at the prime minister's office. The crown sits uneasily on the fool who
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Bridge Spanning Mississippi in Minneapolis Collapses: 9 Dead, 20 Reported Missing — We never know when the bottom will drop our of our lives...
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Part III - Waiting for War in the Shards of Shattered Illusions— Many will die, and the faith of many will be sorely tested. What we’re facing is not a mere stroll in the garden.
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Israel News Analysis: Waiting for War in the Shards of Shattered Illusions - Part II— Last year, I wrote what Lili Galili admitted to in Haaretz 10 days ao: that the State is collapsing around us.
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The Stone of 'Amaleq and Hatred in the Arab World— What evil force could be at work that causes such hatred of Israelis among Arabs?
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Part I: Waiting for War in the Shards of Shattered Illusions – Israel News Analysis— While we wait for war, a truly bitter recognition of reality is in the offing.
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Part IV - In The Shadow of the Six Day War — Is Israel doomed?
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Part III - In The Shadow of the Six Day War
— Borders cause wars. The end result of the Oslo Accord would be the removal of Israel's borders.
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Part II - In The Shadow of the Six Day War
— The "miracle" of the 1967 Israeli-Arab War has dissipated with time.
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Part I -In The Shadow of the Six Day War
— War! Listening to the 7 a.m. news, I heard CBS Radio's Israel correspondent report that Israel Defense Forces had advanced into Egyptian territory.
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News Analysis from Israel: Once S'derot is Evacuated, Will the Arabs Occupy it or Not?— So now the big question is this: Once S'derot is evacuated, will the Arabs occupy it or not?
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Israel News Analysis: Going to War in Gaza - the Prospect of Defeat Coming in Whispers— "When he got to his base, there were no supplies; no bullets, no artillery shells, barely any rifles, no underwear, no food, no water –
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News Analysis from Israel: Suppressing the News - Why Is This So?— They are not white, they are not rich, they are not Christians - who needs to gives a damn? Who needs to know?
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Jerusalem Day 2007 – the Rising of the Spirit of the Land— When Security Minister Amir Peretz began to speak, the thunder from the heavens grew louder and continued steadily as though in strong disagreement.
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Weird Water Bills in Jerusalem - Ripoff?— Residents of Jerusalem perplexed by abnormally high water bills.
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Israel News Analysis - The Winograd Report Hits the Fan— The Winograd Report has told us what we all knew already - that Ehud Olmert is not fit to be prime minister. So?
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Two Memorial Days in Israel - Reflecting Both Success and Failure in the Re-Arisen Jewish Entity— "Juden? Waffen?" -"Jews? Weapons?" is what one German is reported to have said before being killed at the entrance of the Warsaw Ghetto.
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News Analysis From Israel: The Imminence of War with Iran, Part II— "...You Israelis, should better prepare yourself for another round against HezBallah. It will not be long in coming."
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Sbarro’s in Jerusalem’s City Center— A bomb attack and international publicity do not, in and of themselves, improve the quality of food in an establishment.
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News Analysis From Israel – The Evil Will Come From the North IV: Is There A D9 In My Future?— More appropriate to the present situation are words inscribed on a parchment which ring out with a clarity of a bell proclaiming freedom throughout the
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Politics in Israel – Katzav Attacks His Accusers: Has a real leader finally arisen in this nation?— Has a real leader finally arisen in Israel who is not afraid of the bloated cynical cliques who ruin this country?
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Ruminations on the Destiny of the People of Israel— For over two millennia, Jews have considered themselves the only remaining Children of Israel. This may be a mis-perception.
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Thoughts on a Mother from a Lousy Son— Thinking about my mother is painful not only because I miss her but because I was a lousy son.
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Santa Claus and the Madness of Christmas— When my kindergartner came home with a paper reindeer named Rudolph, I realized it was time to tell him the truth about Santa Claus.
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Life in Israel: Another Police Volunteer Goes on the Long Patrol— You never know who you will meet in the small world that is the Jewish community.
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News Analysis From Israel – The Evil Will Come From the North: Part 3: THE IMMINENCE OF WAR— “Big ships from the coast of Kittim will afflict Assyria and afflict the other bank – but it too, will be forever destroyed.” (Numbers 24:24)
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Reflections on Jewish Destiny: Getting From Here to There – Emerging From the First Flowering of Our Redemption, Part II— Israel's civil society and the government's unwillingness to do what it needs to do to survive guarantee that it too, will collapse.
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Reflections on Jewish Destiny: Getting From Here to There – Emerging From the First Flowering of Our Redemption, Part I
— Today, secular Israeli culture is failing us. We are left with inequality, a terrible competitiveness, no sense of fair play, and corruption wherever we
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Living In Israel - Hebrew Press Distorted Misfortune to Push For Killing Immigration to Israel— What a sickening sight to see: The descendants of the glorious enterprise of “settling the Land” taking a knife to its own nation’s throat.
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News Analysis From Israel – The Evil Will Come From the North: Part II— "...the day of their catastrophe is near, and future events are rushing at them."
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From The North The Evil Will Burst Forth Upon All The Inhabitants Of The Land— And G-d said to me, "from the North the Evil Will Burst Forth Upon all the Inhabitants of the Land"
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