Bibi Netanyahu gave a great speech at the UN on Friday. It really doesn’t matter.

Why did I come to Israel in 1992? I had just finished my doctorate and had two excellent postdoc offers in the US. Had I taken one of them, I probably would be a professor somewhere in the US right now. So why did I come here? My family was religious in all of its hundreds of years in Germany. My parents fled with their parents, and we grew up in the Chicago suburbs, where we belonged to a large Conservative synagogue. When I was in Madison, I had a stirring to become more religiously observant. I realized that if I wanted to accelerate this effort, it would happen more quickly and more fully in Israel. I was very fortunate to receive a Fulbright Fellowship to the Hebrew University, and I am grateful to God for all of the good that he has done for me and for my family.

Israel is by no means a perfect country. One can criticize it on my many fronts. Last week, I heard the screeching of the head of the cab drivers’ union on the possibility that Uber will finally become kosher in Israel. To date, there has been limited Uber service, only with cabs, as the High Court ruled that normal people do not have car insurance that covers commercial activity. Things here are very expensive. Ralph Lauren (originally Lifshitz) opened a Polo store in Jerusalem. You have to bring your banker with you to go shopping. Traffic here can be beyond brutal. There is no shortage of kvetching and if one is honest, he can find fault here as he can find in any country on the map.

Bibi Netanyahu flew to New York to give his annual UN speech. The IDF set up massive speakers in Gaza and supposedly commandeered Gazan cellphones in order that the locals and the long-suffering hostages would hear his speech. His speech was in my........

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