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Jerusalem, my hometown: East Talpiot street names and Pre-Election sentiments

So, it was quite the winter storm! Some said it was the most snow they’d seen in Jerusalem in years. I stayed inside and tried to keep warm in my hardly-heated apartment room. Luckily, it has a...

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Jerusalem, my hometown: The Great Debate

Right up from the Great Synagogue of Jerusalem on King George street, there’s this pretty great Kosher pizza joint that serves these great big stuffed pretzels and calzones. I went in and had to have a...

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Jerusalem, my hometown: Election Day

So, I walked down Rabbi Akiva street this morning, shortly after 07:00. I couldn’t wait to vote in my first Israeli election. As I turned the corner into the Experimental School, that institution of...

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Jerusalem, my hometown: Election Night 1 – the results

So, I’m down here at the media center in Tel Aviv with all the journalists, pundits and party leaders. How’d I get in here? Well, actually the GPO was very thorough and I was on an access list just...

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Jerusalem, my hometown: Election Night 2 – Analyses

From last night just after the polls closed, still in Tel Aviv down at Hangar 1 in the media center for the foreign press: Well, they are bringing out the most scrumptious desserts! Little cute...

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Jerusalem my hometown: The Lionville of Jewish Dreams

I grew up in Lionville, Pennsylvania, a suburb outside of Philadelphia. More country then town back then, I played in the woods and lived a good life there. But, when I was 18, I joined the US Navy and...

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Jerusalem, my hometown: It was nice while it lasted

Soon, I will be leaving Jerusalem to go live on a moshav where, with my knitted kippa, I will join others who stand for one Israel. My soon-to-be new home is a moshav that lies right where few Israelis...

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Israel as a nation is one BIG פרייר (fryer) for the Hamas

This post is written to Israelis like me. If you don’t live in Israel, you’re welcome to read this but just understand who I’m addressing before going on… What is wrong with us? We push our ways onto...

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Protective Edge: Bibi’s Necessary War

Since the demise of the Likud-Israel Beitenu alliance, FM Lieberman is posturing to run against Bibi in the next election. Bibi’s problem is a damned-if-he-does/doesn’t scenario. If his Protective Edge...

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Pat Moynihan’s November stand in the UN

As we approach the 29 November anniversary of the 1947 UN Partition plan that gave birth to the Jewish State, it is only appropriate to remember a good friend of Israel who went to bat for us also in...

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