A haftorah of pride and property
| 7:00 AM Nov 27, 2009
A while back, I got an email from a dear old friend. “I was going through my drawers,” she wrote, “and I found this. Enjoy it. I know I did.”
Attached were a few short letters. I read them once or twice and felt a warm rush of empathy towards their author. I could tell he ...
Palestinians more impoverished; ultra-Orthodox more hungry
| 4:00 PM Sep 25, 2009
Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics released its annual report last week, in time for Rosh Hashanah. This week, in advance of the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, the Bureau published a report comparing poverty statistics from 2003 with those from 2007. Separately, the International Peace Institute came out this week with new statistics ...