Hi!! Thanks for coming to my article! I was raised in Brooklyn, was graduated from the City University of New York in 1978 with a BA in political science and public administration there. I lived in Minnesota for a number of years. There I managed restaurants and wrote stories. We moved with our children family to Israel where we now reside. My work can be found at Ruvy's Roost,Jewish Indy, Desicritics.org. I am the editor for the Root & Branch Information Service.
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Thinking about my mother is painful not only because I miss her but because I was a lousy son.
When my kindergartner came home with a paper reindeer named Rudolph, I realized it was time to tell him the truth about Santa Claus.
You never know who you will meet in the small world that is the Jewish community.
“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)
Israel's civil society and the government's unwillingness to do what it needs to do to survive guarantee that it too, will collapse.
Today, secular Israeli culture is failing us. We are left with inequality, a terrible competitiveness, no sense of fair play, and corruption wherever we turn
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.
"...the day of their catastrophe is near, and future events are rushing at them."
And G-d said to me, "from the North the Evil Will Burst Forth Upon all the Inhabitants of the Land"
Somtimes you need to step back just a bit from all the complicated descriptions to understand what you are seeing...
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