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Achilles, the mythical protagonist of Homer's "Iliad," is one of history's most celebrated heroes. Various versions of his exploits have been told...
I'm in a shop that sells legumes. On the wall before me hangs a picture of a man with graying hair and a trenchant gaze. Below it is a caption:...
What will the event now underway in the Gaza Strip be called in the future? Israel calls it a "war." There's no doubt that a war is underway, on...
Darkness upon the face of the deep. Donald Trump's victory is a terrible disaster for all humankind and the planet on which we live. For anyone who...
On the TV screen the body of Yahya Sinwar appears, for the umpteenth time. I'm reading Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein." In my previous readings of...
Exile is all the rage again. In recent months, a variety of reports have been published about a significant wave of immigration from Israel,...
A little over one hundred years ago, on June 30, 1924, the poet and journalist Jacob de Haan emerged from evening prayers in a synagogue on Jaffa...