Exposure to light at night is the most powerful factor in breast cancer besides genetic defects, according to a new University of Haifa study. Although one can’t easily move to a dark...
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Shabbat Shalom
Straight Up An image from Gilad Benari who not only has some fine skills, but also an unusual and creative eye. He describes his work: I love to vary my experience in photography. I believe that the...
Oops, American NIE misstated Iran’s program
David Horovitz, the Jerusalem Post’s editor, writes an editorial about the 180 degree shift by the man in charge of the US National Intelligence Estimate that recently proclaimed Iran’s...
The Middle takes illogical tribal pride in others’ achievements
“See the Forest” appears to be a promotional project of a company called IP Vision. IP Vision says about itself: IPVision develops and markets solutions that are core to dynamic...
“Olmert’s like a woman who is dying to get married, but is afraid of becoming pregnant”
For decades, but particularly during Arafat’s last years, the Palestinians’ position regarding Jerusalem and the Temple Mount in particular was that there was no Jewish connection at all...
Barry Rubin’s Swampland Analogy
I like Barry Rubin. He leans more to the right than I’d like but his commentary is frequently on target, measured, full of data points that are useful and may not be public knowledge, and...
Tel Aviv and Shabbat
This is Tel Aviv, at the beach, taken by Stina Baruh who seems to be Turkish and was on a visit to Israel when she took this image. Shabbat shalom!
A couple of notes
A. Make sure to keep tracking Gila Weiss’s My Shrapnel blog. It is, without a doubt, one of the most compelling blogs I have ever read. Slowly, slowly, but with beautiful writing, Gila relates...


