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…wo neighboring states were about to attack us — despite sayeret intercepts that could have given us time to call up all our reserves. Disentangling the details would take months. But we already knew the human cost of those failures. Hundreds of Israeli soldiers had been killed. T...

… college. As long as students are not in school to get an education, you can be pretty sure they won’t get one. Most of our graduates have learned to jump through hoops, nothing more. Confined children: Children like to run around. Is this news to anyone? They have a difficult t...

…s, killing the driver and one of the teachers and injuring nearly a dozen children. The so-called Battle of Karameh was our single most significant operation since the 1967 war. In pure military terms, it succeeded. But at a price: more than two dozen Israeli soldiers dead. It al...

48 Teaching Minds others and hearing their stories but we also learn from our own experi- ence as we construct our own stories. We can learn about life experi- ences through reading and movies as well. We like stories in all these forms precisely because they focus on real-life...

…is Military Appreciation Month, and a series of activities are planned to honor and pay tribute to those who fought for our country. Today, veterans will visit two St. Croix schools to give presentations to students. Members of American Legion Post 102 will be “teachers for a d...

… you to tell me. I don't want to harm you, I just want to push you; I want to break down walls with you. I want to see your eyes go deep and soft. It's not fair for me to feel like I fucked up, because you fucked up, too. I thought you could take care of yourself. I thought you k...

…stinians to replace an Israeli troop cordon there with Palestinian police. But on the morning of Saturday October 7th, hours after the Palestinian police took over, a mob attacked, burned and ransacked the site. They destroyed the Torah scrolls. A few hours later, our soldiers fo...

… say, with what many in the audience, and certainly Ben-Zion and Bibi, would expect me to say. Not only was Yoni being mourned across Israel after Entebbe. He was being elevated — in the spirit of Shimon’s words at the funeral —to something approaching sainthood. I did not want t...

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…al Jewish approach to learning and ritual—doubt all you want, but do! My brother and I started that way, but ultimately our doubts carried over into action--or more precisely inaction. We stopped observing in our mid 20s. My mother couldn't understand or accept that. "I don't car...

…ither of us can cross it alone.” Jerusalem, “the eternal capital of Israel,” was calling out for a “peace of honor, of courage and of brotherhood” — a peace recognizing that the city was also sacred to Muslims and Christians the world over. When Arafat spoke, it was almost as if...

…, at the crack of dawn for the Alzheimer’s Ball, a grand charity event. Susan Hess and I are chauffeured downtown with our Vera Wang gowns and report to the VIP extra holding area where we join Prince Dimitri of Yugoslavia in a bespoke dinner jacket, journalist Christopher Mason...

if we honestly open our eyes to the richness of our autobiography

our great-great grandchildren will look back at our age and

our coherent extrapolated volition is our wish if we knew more