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August 9, 2020

A Personal Steinsaltz

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I first got to know the late Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz (Even-Israel) in the early 1990s when he came to Washington as a scholar-in-residence, t...
July 1, 2020

IN BRIEF: With or without annexation, permanent damage has already been done

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There's plenty of good analysis on how annexation will be wrong and dangerous, along with much speculation on whether Netanyahu will...
August 12, 2019

Why aren't there big protests here like in Hong Kong?

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A friend asked me why Americans aren’t out protesting Trump in numbers closer to those in Hong Kong, where at one point one-quarter of its...
November 21, 2018

History forgotten, Saudi Arabia trumps Pakistan and Iran

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President Trump uses American jobs as the reason he’s setting aside the CIA’s report that—as has been inescapably obvious for weeks—Saudi...
October 31, 2018

Pittsburgh's uneasy spotlight

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You don’t have to be Jewish to have deep feelings about last week’s terror attack in Pittsburgh. And there is no shortage of emotions and ...
February 19, 2018

About parades and insecure rulers

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President Trump seems intent on staging some glorious and  costly parade , to showcase our military might and — presumably — to celebrate h...
September 11, 2017

Today we mourn, tomorrow we vote

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September 11, 2001, was a Tuesday. Though our leaders seemed to be asleep at the wheel in the months preceding, and in the first minutes of...
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Shai Franklin
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I was a Cold War brat back when it was still popular. Along the way, I've more often been right by relying upon common sense instead of "inside scoop". I also post columns to Huffington Post and other media outlets, and keep showing up on Shalom TV (and sometimes Al Jazeera). Regardless of any affiliations reflected in my entries, or elsewhere, I am personally and solely accountable for all content I post to this blog.
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