The Price of Success
Mishpacha Magazine August 25, 2005 Reading the lead essay in the June issue of The Jewish Observer, “Struggling with Success,” by Rabbi Mattis Roberts, I was reminded of the words of Ralph Waldo Emerson,...
The “Jude”on the Yellow Star
When Israeli soldiers entered a barricaded room in Gush Katif, out marched a group of weeping children. Their hands were held up, and each one was wearing the yellow star with the word “jude”...
Jewish ingratitude
#1 I don’t know if Paul Krugman reads Cross-Currents or what, but that far-left NY Times writer had a column today seemingly in reply to my post of a few weeks ago.
Bush Won Florida in 2000
On August 5, I wrote, http://www.cross-currents.com/archives/2005/08/05/comparing-our-troubles-to-theirs/ Myth has it that if the recount had been allowed to continue, Gore would have won. The NY Times and the Miami Herald (both of which endorsed Gore)...
Yated and Haaretz Agree
Along with other members of my family, I was at the massive Tefila and Tehillim gathering at the Kotel prior to the painful commencement of the withdrawal from Gaza. The event was extraordinary because...
Penzias on a Meaningful Universe
We were privileged to have Dr Judea and Ruth Pearl at our Shabbos table a week ago. They left us a copy of their book, I Am Jewish, which collected reactions of several scores...
We are different
Today, Erev Shabbos Nachamu, my brother wrote the following, which I am taking the liberty of posting here: Newspaper-reading Jews all over America have doubtless found it quite vexing that in the reporting of...
Division – certainly; Reconciliation – perhaps
Mishpacha Magazine August 18, 2005 The first casualty of the Gaza withdrawal has been the sundering of the relationship between secular Israel and the national religious camp. The national religious have become the new...
“Rejoice” with the NY Times–part II
I mentioned that I’d read two articles in the NY Times. If you haven’t already, please read my other post first. Here’s the second one: August 15, 2005 Gazans Harbor Modest Dreams Amid Concerns...