Justin Amler: It’s wonderful to be a Jew on Yom Haatzmaut
Thoughts on Yom Haatzmaut: I have a Jewish heart inside – a heart that beats to a 4000 year old rhythm. Whether I’m in Melbourne or in Jerusalem or in the last remaining unexplored...
Author: Sheri Oz
HaTikva: Jewish Hope or Jewish Despair?
If every country has the right to select its own anthem and vote the anthem into law as is customary to do, then Israel has the same inalienable right to our anthem – HaTikva....
Nakba: Why Do You Let THAT Define You?
I wonder about a “People” that is willing, from the get-go, to define themselves as a failure: The Nakba is, for the Arabs who now call themselves Palestinians, their defining moment. The Arab defeat...
Two State Solution: Have I Lost My Marbles?
I raised a few eyebrows when I posted a link to Bassem Eid’s new article, saying I endorse it. Friends wondered what had happened to me since I generally raise issues about why we...
Holocaust Remembrance Day – New Meaning
What better way to commemorate our historic victimhood than by doing something that shows we are no longer victims! This year, on Holocaust Remembrance Day, the IDF discovered the second Hamas terrorist tunnel it...
The Holocaust is Not Our Moral Compass
Don’t dare tell me that we, of all people, should know better. I do not accept this from anyone – not the non-Jew and not the Jew. The Holocaust was something that happened to...
Syrian Refugees Don’t Stay Home to Fight for Syria
Do Syrians feel Syrian enough to fight back? Raihan Ismail, a panelist on an Australian TV discussion, seems to think not. Of course, she doesn’t say that outright, but she does disagree that able-bodied...
Reflections on the French Flag Filter on Facebook
Do you love it or hate it when you see people putting the French flag filter over their Facebook profile pics? Do you love it or hate it when people respond to outpourings of...
