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Why I went to the demonstrations

Sticky PostOn March 24, 2023

Sometimes people do things they shouldn’t, but years or even generations later one’s grateful. My cassette machine, if people remember what that is, stands gathering dust on my study windowsill; I guess I’ve left it there just in case its very antiquity should somehow prove it useful. It was an instrument like that which someone smuggled unlawfully into the synagogue

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A frank and heartfelt report from Israel

Sticky PostOn March 17, 2023

My body is back from Israel, but not my head and heart. ‘Don’t turn away at this critical hour. Stay by us. Know that there are many Israels; decide with which you stand.’ That’s the key message I was given in this time of danger, when both Israel and the meaning of Judaism are at stake. I’ll describe elsewhere the

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From a troubled Israel

Sticky PostOn March 10, 2023

I spent yesterday morning at the Israel Bird Observatory seeing tiny migrating birds being expertly ringed. The Observatory is situated exactly between Israel’s Knesset and the Supreme Court; politicians go past frequently. An extraordinary green haven in the middle of the city, its location is critically symbolic. I watched closely as birds as light as just five grams were measured

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