Writing from Jerusalem during the war years.
May the righteous Lord of warProtect the innocentPunish the wickedRescue the strandedHeal the woundedAvenge Your imageProfaned for so long May our Father in the heavensGuide the hearts and mindsOf Your children taking aimWhisper quietly into their earsThe demand of their own soulsThe call of a higher orderThe wisdom of a wild peace May the Creator … Read more
The devastation of Gaza can still shock and pain me, as a thinking and feeling human being and as a religious Zionist, and pose a collective challenge to Israeli society that demands a coherent answer, without any need to redefine genocide in order to make it fit the horrific impact of this war on the … Read more
I would like to suggest a new halakhic category of war. We are familiar with:– Mandatory war (מלחמת מצווה) – with the aim of clear self-defense (still applicable) or of defeating the violently oppressive nations identified in the law (no longer applicable).– Discretionary war (מלחמת רשות) – with the aim of expanding the political jurisdiction … Read more
I pulled the trigger on the gun. Whom I shot and why I shot him doesn’t change this fact or its consequences for those affected. I pulled the trigger on the gun and now his neighbor’s son is starving. It turns out that gunfire makes it hard to make that bread. I pulled the trigger … Read more
Reportedly, the Fordow mountain nuclear enrichment site has been hit with 12 bunker buster bombs, each weighing 15 tons. It may be too early to tell, but by all indications Khameini’s nuclear program has been essentially closed. That is the good part of the story. The bad: – POTUS authorized this action without seeking let … Read more
I was reading a book by Sadhguru last night (Uh Oh I’m in the new age to Hindutva pipeline now) He was talking about taking responsibility for everything Not blame or guilt but the chosen agency to respond to any and every situation, however we choose A rather radical form of responsibility, if I may … Read more
Why can’t we be targeted in Gaza like we are in Lebanon? What is with the collective punishment as a negotiation tactic? Since when did collective punishment not play into the hands of Hamas, a religious fascist organization that seeks the suffering of Gazans as a tool to manipulate public perception against Israel?
We plod and stumble through this horror of a deal after over a year and a half of war. The ayatollahs’ Islamo-fascist lapdogs parade the corpses of captured children, exchanged for living murderers and would-be murderers hailed as heros on resistance tv. Our economy suffocates as we collectively gasp for air. Still no elections. Meanwhile … Read more
“Did you hear the news, Russia is fighting NATO.” “Are you serious?” “Yes, yes! Russia is fighting NATO.” “So how’s it going?” “Well, 70,000 Russian soldiers are dead. The missile stockpile has almost been depleted. Ships are sunk. A lot of equipment is damaged, blown up.” “And what about NATO?” “NATO hasn’t even arrived yet.” … Read more
Since I first heard of the Bibas family’s capture, I thought the chances were remote that Shiri and the kids would survive captivity. It seemed unlikely to me that their captors would take the trouble to care for the children, and it seemed likely to me that their mother would either spend her last breath … Read more