Our Country's Keepers
Jacques Pauw's The President's Keepers can fill one with despair; or it can infuse one with hope, humility and the challenge to emulate a...
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The voice (of protest) is the voice of Jacob
Whoever has the ability to protest against the members of his household, and doesn’t, is caught up with the members of his household....
Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
How a democratic organisation can become a tyrrany. Elie Wiesel's electric words from his 1986 Nobel acceptance speech echoed so...
I am "Remiss", not Evil
We expect evil to look terrifying; but most evil is terrifyingly bland. One of the questions we deal with in the aftermath of the...
The Eternal Jew and the Tu Bishvat Date:)
A morsel for your table this Tu Bishvat - when you eat your date! Pictured above is a Jewish Date Palm. Why Jewish? Because it was frozen...
Yolocaust and Living Memory
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. Santayana. The Yolocaust project was a true shock to the system. Brilliant...
Bring it on!
We need to pursue the other side of the story; especially when we disagree This past week saw a partial fallout in South Africa from...
Praying for President Trump? And Zuma?
Prayer is about expanding our horizons; and impelling us to act. At the moment, I'm reviewing the Talmud Tractate of B'rachot. It...
Welcome to the Site and the Blog :)
Welcome to the site and to the blog! For those who are new to my horizons or to the Maharal or any of my other projects, it's great to...