December 9, 2008
The conclusion of the line in the song’s lyric is “What it is ain’t exactly clear.” That pretty much sizes up what Barack Obama has in mind for his first 100 days regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Something’s happening. We don’t know exactly what i...
go to article »December 5, 2008
Yesterday, I tried to explain, with an example of an American constitutional problem, what and how an Israeli Bagatz works (an appeal to our High Court for Justice).Read it here.Well, it seems someone thinks it wouldn't work:"There are many ways around this problem," CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin...
go to article »December 4, 2008
The new White House Staff seems odd.There's, so far:Rahm Emanuel, David Axelrod, Ronald Klain, Larry Summers, Paul Volcker, Tim Geithner and Peter Orszag. Okay, maybe it's that I'm Jewish, but wouldn't you agree with me that Obama is basically assuring a minyan, a ten-member prayer quorum?(Kippah...
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For those you have visited my blog frequently, you have probably seen the word "bagatz" and perhaps, despite it being defined as an appeal to the High Court of Justice, you might not fully grasp its significance.I found here a good example of an American situation. So, first the report and I'll fol...
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From a Chabad web site:-The Holtzberg family from Crown Heights arrived in Israel at the end of the week, immediately after receiving news of the attack. The flight to Israel was organized within several short hours. Two of the brothers, who held invalid passports received emergency passports thanks...
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Rabbi Gabriel and Rivka Holtzberg zichronam l'vracha The news is as I feared. After finally clearing Mumbai’s Chabad House of terrorists, Indian commandos discovered that six hostages had been killed, among them Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg and his wife Rivka. Haaretz reports that the other...
go to article »November 28, 2008
Barack Obama said today that his team would combine experience with fresh thinking and his own vision for change. "Understand where the vision for change comes from, first and foremost," he told reporters at his third press conference in as many days. "It comes from me. That's my job, is to provid...
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Well, Michael Schaffer of The New Republic has a few things to say about you:...the president-elect, according to his more fervent campaign-season detractors, has a raft of unforgivable faults: He's a socialist, a Muslim, an actual love-child of Malcolm X. His birth certificate was missing, his book...
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Seth Hettena has done some interesting research into Clarion Fund’s 990 report. He’s discovered that a number of the group’s board members have longstanding and deep ties in partisan Republican circles: Peter Feaman, a Florida trial lawyer. He’s also the author of Wake Up Ameri...
go to article »November 26, 2008
Israeli leader Ehud Olmert will meet his American counterpart George W. Bush this week. The two men will talk about their years in power and will try to agree on some points for the future of U.S.-Israel relations. Most interesting about the meeting is, of course, that it will mark the end of a ...
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