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Corona, political infighting, is there any Good News for Friday?

Posted on 13 March 2020 by

The news has been inexorably bad for the last few weeks and I have been in no mood to write anything (in case you hadn’t noticed). The 3rd round of Israeli elections yielded exactly the same results as the second … Continue reading →

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Shabbat Shalom

Posted on 19 July 2019 by

I decided to do something else this week instead of a regular Good News Friday or Shabbat Shalom post. As I wrote last week, we were in Florence for a week, and we had a fantastic time becoming “culture vultures” … Continue reading →

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The never-ending fight against delegitimization

Posted on 15 December 2017 by

Even before Donald Trump’s Jerusalem declaration there was no shortage of anti-Israel agitation going on, as readers of this blog know well. But times are changing, and so are the attitudes of those confronting this bigotry, in particular the Israeli … Continue reading →

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Let them eat dust. BDS demands: boycott Israeli water expertise

Posted on 14 September 2016 by

(A slightly edited version of this article was first published in the Algemeiner.) The Jerusalem Post ran an interesting piece on Friday on Israel’s Greatest Victory. This victory is not any of its military feats, stunning and miraculous as they … Continue reading →

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Good News Friday

Posted on 2 September 2016 by

Back to regular programming, last week’s holiday seems like a million miles away already. But at least it’s time for a Good News Friday installment. Starting with the Olympics, one of Israel’s bronze medallists, Judoka Yarden Gerbi, put her signed … Continue reading →

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Good News Friday

Posted on 11 March 2016 by

As in previous weeks, I’m hardly in the mood to find any good news at all, so I hope you appreciate my mental effort in the difficult search for a light amongst the darkness. With that caveat, I present you … Continue reading →

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