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Yesterday I received a call from my friend Pavel Hoffmann, a survivor of the Theresienstadt concentration camp, where he was deported with his parents in 1943 at the age of five. He survived and was liberated as a seven-year-old orphan. Both his parents perished in the camp, as
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Since it's Shabbat today, I only looked at the newspapers this evening. There was great concern about the news that the American F-15 jet, shot down during the Iran-Iraq War, had been hit by a Chinese missile: "A senior U.S. official and one of
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My wife broke her right forearm yesterday morning (luckily she's left-handed), and after X-rays, a CT scan, and having a cast put on, she left the hospital in the afternoon—impatient as ever—without properly checking out. As a result, an hour later, a police car
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Yesterday I read an interview that the widely respected historian Noah Harari gave to The New York Times (and which was picked up by our media). It is incredibly naive. He understands nothing about Islam. He describes Hamas’s systematic atrocities as a tactical mistake by their now-killed leader
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26.5. We have simply wonderful spring days, perhaps too wonderful to be true. From the sunrise in the clear blue sky, the air is sparkling, the leaves in the garden are dancing in the morning breeze, shimmering and sparkling as if to tell me: Life is beautiful. It can