Our Benighted Politicians
Some 80 years ago, George Orwell wrote: “The illiteracy of politicians is a special feature of our age—as G.M. Trevelyan put it, ‘In the seventeenth...
Category : Beliefs & Perspectives
Reflections: 2007
It has been reported that more people are converting to Islam than to any other religious creed. Of the various reasons which may explain this...
Londoner, Assaulted by Muslim, Told to ‘Swallow It’ by Police
England, the home of parliamentary democracy, the rule of law, civility and poetry, all but gone, succumbing to Islam via multiculturalism. Shakespeare, Blackstone, Milton, Newton,...
On Exaggeration
Some readers of my article “Russia and Israel” may think I exaggerate. I would only like to remind them of the wisdom of the 20th...
Israel’s Virtual Idiots
Israelis have found that the Hebrew word for “fools,” tipshim, does not quite describe Israel’s political leaders. Hence they have Hebraicized and pluralized the word...
Time
1) To paraphrase, in part, Rabbi Matis Weinberg (Patterns in Time), to the non-Jewish world, time is a linear flow without relation to anything external....
Kudos for Caroline
Our gallant and gifted political analyst, Caroline Glick, Deputy Managing editor of The Jerusalem Post, has called for a popular uprising against the Olmert government....
The Patriarchs: A Brief Sketch
It is no accident that Israel has only three Patriarchs. Each Patriarch personifies a qualitative law of existence. Abraham is the paradigm of Hesed or...
The Impossibility of Secular Zionism
From time to time we hear that secular Zionism is dead. Actually, secular Zionism was always a logical impossibility—as contradictory as atheism and theism. Let’s...
Democracy and Sexuality in Classical Athens
Although democracy had its origin in classical Athens—what could be more democratic than an assembly whose members are chosen by lot?—the Athenian attitude toward sexuality...