Everybody knows the scene from school: a small boy quarrels with a bigger boy. 'Hold me back!' he shouts to his comrades,…
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On the high seas, outside territorial waters, the ship was stopped by the navy. The commandos stormed it. Hundreds of people on…
In January 1077, King Henry IV walked to Canossa. He crossed the snow-covered Alps barefoot, wearing a penitent monk’s hair shirt, and…
Some weeks ago, Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turk who tried to kill Pope John Paul II in Rome, was released after serving…
This coming Wednesday, the Supreme Court of Israel will consider an application by a group of Israeli citizens to compel the Interior…
From time to time I ask myself: what would happen if the world’s governments decided to abolish all their spy agencies simultaneously?…
Many important struggles in Israel are calling out to people of conscience. Among others (in random order): The struggle for preserving…
I tried to resist the temptation to tell the same classical Jewish joke a second time, but circumstances delivered a plausible excuse.…
The quiet American was the hero of Graham Greene’s novel about the first Vietnam War, the one fought by the French. He…
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