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Sherwin PomerantzThe Times of Israel (Blogs) |
82 Days to Elections: Choosing a Blessing or a Curse This shabbat, Jews around the world will begin the reading of this week’s Torah potion with...
Before any voter here in Israel enters the polling place on October 27th, it should be clear to every citizen what the platform of the party proposing...
Israel lost one of its staunchest supporters in the US Congress with the passing this week of Congressperson Kay Granger, at the age of 83. She was a...
In this morning’ s New York Times, respected columnist David French authored a piece entitled “The War That Could Swallow the World” which you...
When I walk into our neighborhood polling place in Jerusalem on October 27, there are some things I’d like to know about my candidate for Prime...
With 90 days to go to elections, my memory takes me back to early 1985 when I was, for one year, the interim general manager of Luz Industries Israel...
Now three months away from election day here in Israel, we, as a community, need to think seriously about what we want our leadership to represent and...
In an interview with Fox News before leaving on his trip to Washington to participate in the memorial service for the late Sen. Lindsey Graham,...
In 93 days, Israel will conduct an election which is probably one of the most, if not the most, consequential in the country’s 78-year history....
The United States seems regularly now to be pursuing legally operating Israeli-related organizations to force them to register as possible foreign...
In the Book of Psalms (121:1-2) it is written: “I lift up my eyes to the mountains, from where does my help come? My help comes from the Lord,...
I wonder whether the angels in heaven above recited Hallel (the collection of joyous Psalms 113–118, generally said on holidays) this morning in...
US Representative Ro Khanna (D-CA) made a visit to Israel this past week for the express purpose, as he termed it, of seeing what the Palestinians in...
The statistics are absolutely frightening, shameful and demonstrate grossly unacceptable behavior that, if not contained, will ultimately make it...
On Monday, the Cabinet of the Government of Israel took a unanimous decision that drove yet another nail into the corpus of Israeli freedom and...
Greek history created the term Pyrrhic victory to describe a win that comes at such a steep price to the victor that it is effectively a defeat....
In the late fall of 1991, Israel was pushed to participate in a peace conference in Madrid, hosted by Spain and co-sponsored by the United States and...
On Tuesday evening and Wednesday of this week I will observe the 50th anniversary of the passing of my father, Sidney Pomerantz, of blessed memory....
Rabbi Berel Wein of blessed memory gave a talk once about the Jewish Diaspora experience in which he profiled the large communities in history where...
This coming shabbat, in synagogues worldwide, the Torah portion of Balak will be read which includes (Numbers 24:8-9) Bilaam’s blessing to the...
Reuters reports that US President Trump signed a copy of the US-Iran MOU to end their war on Wednesday while he was still in France, and President...
Yesterday’s headline in Israel’s Yediot Aharonot, summed up in two words the prevailing sentiment in Israel over President Trump’s emerging...
In the 1962 movie “Lawrence of Arabia,” there is one scene where an Arab sheikh is speaking with Lawrence (played so well by Peter O’Toole)...
On the streets and coffee shops in Israel these days the common refrain that is heard is, “We would prefer not to see any more of our soldiers die,...
In a typical New York Times anti-Israel headline in today’s online edition, the editors blasted out: “Pentagon Sees Growing Espionage Threat from...
The Attorney General of the United States is officially the head of the Department of Justice (DOJ) and serves as the federal government’s chief law...
Recently I was on a zoom call with a group of highly intelligent and, I hasten to add, highly opinionated, not so young but not so old, people with...
The United Nations has added Israel to its list of countries accused of using sexual violence as a weapon in conflict, placing it alongside Hamas and...
The Colorado Democratic Party on Wednesday formally censured Democratic Gov. Jared Polis for reducing the prison sentence of Tina Peters, the former...
As the saying goes “the devil is in the details” but for us here in Israel the devil and the details seem to be in the White House in Washington...
In the continuing criticism of Israel seemingly emerging from every voice of Democratic and Independent legislators in the U.S., the Jewish kid from...
In an op ed in the New York Times on May 12th, Tom Friedman makes a plea for NATO to swallow its pride and get involved in making sure that the Strait...
In a 2023 paper entitled “Prison Rape and Sexual Assault: Prevalence, Vulnerabilities and System Responses Current Guidelines” by Kylee Synovec...
An op-ed in today’s Jerusalem Post by Mike Evans, founder of Churches United with Israel, the largest Christian Zionist network in America, with...
This week, an old quote purported to be from theoretical physicist Albert Einstein, came to mind in the face of new drone technology being used by...
Before anyone corrects my geography, please note that I am well aware that Jedwabne is in Poland, and not Alabama, although both communities are in...
The overreaction of the world press to the idiotic behavior of the IDF soldier who bashed a statue of Jesus that was on a cross in the garden of a...
Tonight, Monday evening, Israel will embark on a 48-hour experience of 24 hours of remembrance of those who have given their lives in defense of this...
I have been a supporter of the United Nations since its inception, given that I believe, despite all its shortcomings, it remains a somewhat neutral...
In his strongest words yet, Pope Leo XIV on Saturday denounced the “delusion of omnipotence” that he believes is fueling the U.S.-Israel war on...
We here in Israel began the last holy day of the Passover holiday not knowing what would happen when President Trump’s 8 p.m. Tuesday evening DC...
The government of the State of Israel and its Supreme Court this past week demonstrated the very worst disregard for the laws of the land and the...
According to a report in the New York Times, US Congressional Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) of New York said this week that she would...
Doesn’t this all get kind of old, stale and boring? Israel makes a stupid mistake on Palm Sunday, a holy day for Christians a week before Easter...
By now most of my readers know that I grew up in the Bronx in the 1940s and 1950s most of which time was before the establishment of the modern State...
The most interesting aspect of antisemitic and anti-Israel rhetoric is that the story line usually begins at the time a particular incident occurred,...
There is a Yiddish expression with many variations that is transliterated as “ver es hat di gelt makht di gezetsn” loosely translated as “He who...
A recently released Gallup poll based on surveys taken during February of this year, indicate a landmark transformation of the American political...
The Roman senator and orator Cato the Elder (real name: Marcus Porcius Cato) famously ended every speech with the Latin phrase Carthago delenda...
Jose de Sousa Saramago, a Portuguese poet and the winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature, wrote: “Not everything is as it seems, and not...
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