Radio talk show. Murderer sentenced. In May 2020, he strangled his 19-year-old girlfriend. Her father was interviewed. How did he feel, sitting in the courtroom during the confessed murderer’s trial? “Unbearable,” he said, “to think this guy’s bare hands, at little more than an arm’s reach from him, strangled his daughter.”

I thought of revenge. Wondering why revenge is designated a natural reaction, acting on it thereby justifiable in warfare. I wonder why, alternatively, bereaved families committed to resolving conflict, to prevent further loss of life, are subject to condemnation.

Balancing acts. I was thinking about political parties. Costs politicians pay in coalitions. I will vote knowing the party platform has no chance for absolute execution within any foreseeable government. Even my votes in the primaries will have negligible impact, but it’s important enough to me to do it.

“Bibi must go” or variations on a theme with compromise? Head of pre-military academy in West Bank settlement town, Eli, Rabbi Yigal Levinstein, stated last month: “The army fears no enemy. It........

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