Quantcast
Channel: Rabbi Dow Marmur – Jewish Website
Browsing latest articles
Browse All 19 View Live

A unity government in Israel?

There are signs that Israel will be spared the nightmare of a third election. The politicians of the two major parties may be coming to their senses. Prime Minister Netanyahu, who engineered the second...

View Article



Benny Gantz reaches out to all sides

Benny Gantz’s career-switch from general to political leader seemed awkward. His statements were few and usually inane. One was left with the impression that he had nothing to say or that his three...

View Article

Did Netanyahu purposely precipitate a Gaza crisis?

I’ve kept silent for some time while the politicians are trying to avoid yet another general election in Israel by forming a government. As Avigdor Liberman, the head of the “Russian” Yisrael Beiteinu...

View Article

Holocaust conference a boon to Netanyahu

Many of the world’s VIPs are in Jerusalem today: heads of state or their deputies, heads of government, foreign ministers and other important dignitaries from more than 40 countries. They’ve come to...

View Article

The deal of the century — really?

“To build in Judea and Samaria like in Tel Aviv.” That’s one of the headlines in today’s Yisrael Hayom, the popular daily newspaper distributed without charge and financed by the American-Jewish casino...

View Article


Stalemate continues among Netanyahu, Gantz, Lieberman

Power and paranoia seem to go together. The more you have of the former, the more are you likely to be burdened by the latter. Biographers of Stalin, for example, when describing his ruthless rule also...

View Article

Purim in the House of Mozes

Purim was celebrated this year in Israel and perhaps elsewhere also as a respite from worrying about the spread of the coronavirus (epidemic? pandemic? panic?). In the old-age home (pardon: “parents’...

View Article

Did Gantz do the right thing?

Some friends whose opinions I respect have reacted against my support (for what it’s worth) for the so-called unity government. They do not seem to believe that Benny Gantz did the right thing by...

View Article


The Supreme Court and the Knesset

The two issues that kept Israel’s Supreme Court busy (all eleven judges sitting together, which is very rare, I understand) deliberating in public view (a) whether Israel can have a prime minister...

View Article


Netanyahu trial to make history, possibly tumult

Next Sunday, Binyamin Netanyahu is about to make history, but not of the kind for which he wants to be remembered. The court just ordered him to appear in person at the opening of his trial on three...

View Article
Browsing latest articles
Browse All 19 View Live




Latest Images