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Michael Kuttner
Broken glass and shattered illusions
One would have imagined that the night of 9 November 1938 in Germany would have shattered forever any lingering illusions that one could appease...
Fault lines
For as many years as I can remember experts have been predicting that we are overdue for “the big one.”
New Zealand sits on the...
Rock Solid
The term “rock solid” can be described as something or someone you can trust not to change or disappear.
This can have positive and negative...
Incoming high tide warning
The high priests of climate change are predicting that in the near future we may be engulfed by rising ocean levels.
Rising temperatures are certainly...
Somewhere over the rainbow
As we read in the Torah portion, Noach, the rainbow became a symbol that God would not destroy the world by flood again.
These days...
Brick walls
In our journey through life, we more often than not encounter brick walls.
Sometimes they impede our progress while we devise strategies to circumvent them...
Yomai Hadin – Days of Judgement
We have, according to Jewish tradition, ten days in which we can hope to alter any Divine decree made about us on Rosh Hashanah.
It...
One step forward and two steps back
It’s that time of the (Jewish) year again when we take stock of the past and pray for a better future in the year...
Imbecilic insanity
Former United Kingdom Prime Minister, Tony Blair, is reported as having called the American Administration’s total pullout from Afghanistan as imbecilic.
A quoted remark made...
Questionable friends
“In life, we never lose friends, we only learn who the TRUE ones are.”
This unattributed quote came to mind as Afghans were being thrown...
